Will my CPU bottleneck?

[lavenzo]

hi guys! im planning to upgrade my 460 -> 660ti but i wonder will my current setup will bottleneck the 660ti. advice plss

CPU: AMD Phenom II x3 720
MOBO: Asus M4A77 TD
RAM: 4gm
HDD:1x WD Black <- main
HDD2: 1x SAMSUNG Spin

Thanks alot!

 

[Sunius]

If you overclock that CPU, it will not.

 

[kajabla]

Yeah, it'll bottleneck. I don't think you'll be able to go above the 6950/560 Ti level without bottlenecking. Sorry.

 

[spentshells]

If you overclock that CPU, it will not.

I'm not sure if it will or not but we have the correct idea here

 

[kajabla]

Really? The 660 Ti's roughly as good as a 580. Most Tom's game reviews seem to show significant CPU scaling with high-end cards, meaning you need a decent CPU to make them worthwhile.

 

[Sunius]

Well, it depends on game of course. On games like Skyrim it will for sure scale well, however, on most other games - not really.

 

[spentshells]

Really? The 660 Ti's roughly as good as a 580. Most Tom's game reviews seem to show significant CPU scaling with high-end cards, meaning you need a decent CPU to make them worthwhile.

Im not sure if worthwhile is the correct term but I totally know what you mean but at the same time the performance increase even without an overclock would be massive

 

[kajabla]

Pulling the benchmarks:
Crysis 2 scales hugely: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/crysis-2-directx-11-performance,2983-8.html
GW2 does too: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/guild-wars-2-performance-benchmark,3268-7.html
Some games are famously CPU-limited, like Skyrim and SC2. BF3 hardly scales at all, though. It depends what you'll be playing.

 

[Sunius]

I guess so.

 

[lavenzo]

aww...how much will it bottleneck...i don plan to upgrade my cpu yet...

 

[Sunius]

Not much. You will see a tremendous increase in performance even if it bottlenecks a little bit. Overclock the CPU and the bottleneck will go away.

 

[lavenzo]

ah! glad to hear that <:

i will get the card and test it first <:

 

[Sunius]

Let us know your results! .

 

[lavenzo]

so i got the msi 660ti and here is the result...kinda sad looking at those result..

3d mark vintage
P14397
GPU Score: 21838
CPU Score: 7119

3d mark 11
SCORE
P5736 3DMarks
GRAPHICS SCORE
8758
PHYSICS SCORE
2867
COMBINED SCORE
2750

is my CPU died? lol

 

[Sunius]

Not really . I'm sure your gaming performance went up tremendously.

 

[lavenzo]

really?

in my 3d mark vintage i just got
GPU test1: 62 fps
GPU test 2: 65 fps

i saw the review around the internet it should be 80+?

 

[lavenzo]

before this 660ti i am using asus gtx 460 top and i got

GPU test 1: 44
GPU test 2: 42

 

[Sunius]

And what fps did you get before? 30? Don't look at internet benchmarks. They test it with $1000 CPUs.

 

[Sunius]

Now turn on a game. Do you get nice fps? .

 

[lavenzo]

ima going to do some testing <:

btw...i found that this card idle is 41 and max is around 74..isnt it kinda hot at idle? hmm..

 

[Sunius]

I don't think so. My GTX 560 Ti idles at 40°C.

 

[spentshells]

And what fps did you get before? 30? Don't look at internet benchmarks. They test it with $1000 CPUs.

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