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Started by shmk | | 5 answers
GTX 980 and i7 2600k
Hello,
I have a good but not so new CPU Intel i7-2600k and I'm thinking about buying a GTX 980 (maybe a OC or SOC version like the Gigabyte G1), do you think my CPU will be a bottleneck?

I attach another question: using PCI-E 2.0 instead of 3.0 could be a big bottleneck too?
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a b à CPUs
September 21, 2014 12:27:58 AM

Great man . go have fun then :D 
September 20, 2014 1:56:02 PM

DukiNuki said:
Second Questions : its not like having a weak cpu . it might be little slower than 3.0 but you might never notice that . Google about that . see what other people have experienced .


About PCI-E 2.0 vs 3.0, I've found this real test using a GTX Titan that says that there are close to nothing differences: http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Impact-of-PCI...
so I think that with a GTX 980 would be the same :) 

a c 252 à CPUs
September 20, 2014 11:49:35 AM

CPUs have gone thru several generations without having a large impact on GFX performance...... Bloomfield boxes are still out there doing quite well.

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a b à CPUs
September 20, 2014 11:46:23 AM

First Question : as you said its not new but its strong enough to handle GTX 980 . Intel has the least problem with strong graphic cards and it will hardly ever bottleneck any single VGA or even Crossfire/Sli Systems . its not amd man :D 

Second Questions : its not like having a weak cpu . it might be little slower than 3.0 but you might never notice that . Google about that . see what other people have experienced .
a b à CPUs
September 20, 2014 11:43:40 AM

No it wont bottleneck it, I7 2600K is a beast of a CPU. However using PCIe 2.0 might be a bottleneck.

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