Will my Phenom 2 960t Bottleneck the gtx 660?
Specs:
Phenom 2 X4 960t OC'd to 3.8ghz
GTX 550 Gigabyte Cylcone II
4gb RAM DDR3 1333
A880g motherboard
500 Watt PSU
It might be important to note that I have a 1680 X 1050 monitor. Before you tell me to buy a 1920 X 1080, I might be in a transitional upgrade phase, so I might have to buy parts incrementally. First, pretend that a better GPU is a good buy and I have a good monitor. Second, what effect would a screen like that have on the bottleneck?
Now, you're probably about to say, "why would you buy a $300 video card and match it up with a $120 cpu?"
Listen, it wasn't really part of my plan either. Actually, my specs were sort of a pilot to enable me to at least PLAY current games on acceptable settings. It just needed to WORK. I was supposed to bring things up to speed a few months later, hence only 4gb of RAM.
I had planned to upgrade other parts first, and replace my CPU farther down the road as games tend to be slightly more GPU bound. Therefore, I needed to extend it's life as long as possible. Take my crappy board for example. All it has are the essentials. Any cheap board would have done the job, but this had core unlocking. Sadly, I think my extra cores were disabled for a reason, but you understand my strategy here.
I WAS going to exchange my 550 for a 560, but then the 600 series came out. I was also informed that the 560 would only give a slight increase in performance. I disagreed, but wouldn't it be like spending $400 for a 560? Not very appealing. And the card after that is the 570, and I think it makes more sense to own a 660 if I am to spend that much.
As of the next few months or year, I might be in "transition" mode. As I won't be able to change everything at once, SOME if my parts probably won't sync perfectly with each other.
So with my OC of 3.8 GHz, what might be the extent of the bottlenecking? I'm braced for a long list of mixed answers.
Specs:
Phenom 2 X4 960t OC'd to 3.8ghz
GTX 550 Gigabyte Cylcone II
4gb RAM DDR3 1333
A880g motherboard
500 Watt PSU
It might be important to note that I have a 1680 X 1050 monitor. Before you tell me to buy a 1920 X 1080, I might be in a transitional upgrade phase, so I might have to buy parts incrementally. First, pretend that a better GPU is a good buy and I have a good monitor. Second, what effect would a screen like that have on the bottleneck?
Now, you're probably about to say, "why would you buy a $300 video card and match it up with a $120 cpu?"
Listen, it wasn't really part of my plan either. Actually, my specs were sort of a pilot to enable me to at least PLAY current games on acceptable settings. It just needed to WORK. I was supposed to bring things up to speed a few months later, hence only 4gb of RAM.
I had planned to upgrade other parts first, and replace my CPU farther down the road as games tend to be slightly more GPU bound. Therefore, I needed to extend it's life as long as possible. Take my crappy board for example. All it has are the essentials. Any cheap board would have done the job, but this had core unlocking. Sadly, I think my extra cores were disabled for a reason, but you understand my strategy here.
I WAS going to exchange my 550 for a 560, but then the 600 series came out. I was also informed that the 560 would only give a slight increase in performance. I disagreed, but wouldn't it be like spending $400 for a 560? Not very appealing. And the card after that is the 570, and I think it makes more sense to own a 660 if I am to spend that much.
As of the next few months or year, I might be in "transition" mode. As I won't be able to change everything at once, SOME if my parts probably won't sync perfectly with each other.
So with my OC of 3.8 GHz, what might be the extent of the bottlenecking? I'm braced for a long list of mixed answers.
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