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Is my MSI Z77 motherboard good enough to run the new GTX 970
Is my MSI Z77 motherboard good enough to run the new GTX 970. I want to invest in a new graphiccard since the one i have now is a GTX 660 Twin Froze.
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a b V Motherboard
October 6, 2014 4:39:20 PM

Absolutely, that is a very powerful processor.
There are not a lot more powerful, and those are only a little more powerful.

The very lattest i7 are a bigger jump, but nothing you need.
October 6, 2014 4:31:58 PM

You'll be fine.
September 24, 2014 12:06:19 AM

millwright said:
The board is good enough.
What processor?

Any of the processors i3, i5, or i7 will run it, just the i3 would probably bottleneck.
Not sure about the i5, and i7. Probably not much.

The consumer grade Intel CPUs have only improver, a little bit since Sandy bridge.
A lot of the improvements, are on-board graphics, which you don't need.

It won't hurt to try it, you can always upgrade later.


My processer is: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz 4.20 GHz

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a b V Motherboard
September 23, 2014 8:14:40 AM

The board is good enough.
What processor?

Any of the processors i3, i5, or i7 will run it, just the i3 would probably bottleneck.
Not sure about the i5, and i7. Probably not much.

The consumer grade Intel CPUs have only improver, a little bit since Sandy bridge.
A lot of the improvements, are on-board graphics, which you don't need.

It won't hurt to try it, you can always upgrade later.
a b V Motherboard
September 23, 2014 8:07:30 AM

Why not ? it is not so old.

GTX 970 is 2x faster than GTX 660 .

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