Hi.
This might be a no brainer for most of you guys to tell if my setup will actually be a bottleneck if I bought a 670GTX but I need you to bare with me on this one because I'm still saving up for the big purchase of almost $5k and I'm just trying to buy some of the pieces alone to make it easier for me to actually buy the whole thing in the end.
I already bought the monitor, keyboard, mouse and headset which you might think is funny but they ran me about 750$ and I sure as hell don't want to buy the full PC with money that I don't have and make the payment method as divided monthly payments so I found this buying parts individually pretty smart (gimme credits for thinking of that all by myself :3)
Anyways, lets get to it.
Motherboard: Gigabyte EP35C-DS3R
CPU: Intel Q8200 @ 2.33Ghz w/stock cooler (NOT OC'ed)
RAM: 6GB of 1333Mhz (4GB stick + 2GB stick)
PSU: Stock ass 500W
It's pretty pathetic I know but I've seen other similar setups that had same CPU or same motherboard (not in the same setup) and the owners said they were getting a pretty close result to what the actual benchmarks of this website provided to some games, the threads to those setups were really vague so I didn't get much out of if there were other problems like crashes, freezes (hardware collisions and whatnot). So I wanted to start a new thread and ask you guys what you think.
I already checked out the PSU and a website said that the 670GTX actually has the same power consumption as the GTX560TI which a friend of mine already has and he said everything is running fine and dandy with his 550W PSU, so I'm pretty confident with what I have.
I also checked out the RAM and most guys said 6GB will be a minimum amount for games like Battlefield 3 (which is the main game I play).
I should also add that I monitored my hardware performance while playing BF3 @ Low settings (which all I can run the game on o.o) and saw that both CPU and RAM didn't pass the 80% load while the graphics card reached the 99% limit. Now I know if I actually got the 670GTX and everything was compatible and I could run the game at High settings lets say the CPU and RAM theoretically would be doing considerably more amount of work that they did with the Low preset, but then again, I took in consideration that graphics is usually handled by the graphics card itself mainly so maybe in this case I'm relying on the graphics card itself too much that I'm neglecting that the CPU and RAM can do a major bottleneck for me.
So to summer up, will the 670GTX be compatible with what I have now taking in consideration an 80-90% efficiency from the card instead of a deadly 40% or lower with a nasty bottleneck from one of the parts?
I should remind you that this card will also be used in the future setup that I'm gonna buy (hopefully), so I need it, if not now, then for later.
Thanks in advance.
Have a great life :3
This might be a no brainer for most of you guys to tell if my setup will actually be a bottleneck if I bought a 670GTX but I need you to bare with me on this one because I'm still saving up for the big purchase of almost $5k and I'm just trying to buy some of the pieces alone to make it easier for me to actually buy the whole thing in the end.
I already bought the monitor, keyboard, mouse and headset which you might think is funny but they ran me about 750$ and I sure as hell don't want to buy the full PC with money that I don't have and make the payment method as divided monthly payments so I found this buying parts individually pretty smart (gimme credits for thinking of that all by myself :3)
Anyways, lets get to it.
Motherboard: Gigabyte EP35C-DS3R
CPU: Intel Q8200 @ 2.33Ghz w/stock cooler (NOT OC'ed)
RAM: 6GB of 1333Mhz (4GB stick + 2GB stick)
PSU: Stock ass 500W
It's pretty pathetic I know but I've seen other similar setups that had same CPU or same motherboard (not in the same setup) and the owners said they were getting a pretty close result to what the actual benchmarks of this website provided to some games, the threads to those setups were really vague so I didn't get much out of if there were other problems like crashes, freezes (hardware collisions and whatnot). So I wanted to start a new thread and ask you guys what you think.
I already checked out the PSU and a website said that the 670GTX actually has the same power consumption as the GTX560TI which a friend of mine already has and he said everything is running fine and dandy with his 550W PSU, so I'm pretty confident with what I have.
I also checked out the RAM and most guys said 6GB will be a minimum amount for games like Battlefield 3 (which is the main game I play).
I should also add that I monitored my hardware performance while playing BF3 @ Low settings (which all I can run the game on o.o) and saw that both CPU and RAM didn't pass the 80% load while the graphics card reached the 99% limit. Now I know if I actually got the 670GTX and everything was compatible and I could run the game at High settings lets say the CPU and RAM theoretically would be doing considerably more amount of work that they did with the Low preset, but then again, I took in consideration that graphics is usually handled by the graphics card itself mainly so maybe in this case I'm relying on the graphics card itself too much that I'm neglecting that the CPU and RAM can do a major bottleneck for me.
So to summer up, will the 670GTX be compatible with what I have now taking in consideration an 80-90% efficiency from the card instead of a deadly 40% or lower with a nasty bottleneck from one of the parts?
I should remind you that this card will also be used in the future setup that I'm gonna buy (hopefully), so I need it, if not now, then for later.
Thanks in advance.
Have a great life :3