What have i done?

[NightMiu]

Oh man what have I done. Just bought a 980ti. It was on sale! dont jugde. How bad will this card get bottlenecked? Please my friends, tell me the truth

[App4that]

What? Did someone steal your sweet roll? *in a guards voice*

 

So you bottleneck? Big whoop. Save up for a CPU upgrade.

[FilipSebik]

Ultimately?

[ThinkWithPortals]

Oh man what have I done. Just bought a 980ti. It was on sale! dont jugde. How bad will this card get bottlenecked? Please my friends, tell me the truth

With that AMD 1090T?

 

I think it'll be pretty bad. Maybe get a locked i5+cheap H-series board?

[MEC-777]

Should be fine for most games, honestly. You can OC that 6-core CPU too if you have adequate cooling and a good motherboard. It's basically an FX-6300 with slightly lower clocks.

[MEC-777]

With that AMD 1090T?

 

I think it'll be pretty bad. Maybe get a locked i5+cheap H-series board?

 

Try it first. Probably won't be as bad as you think.

[App4that]

Try it first. Probably won't be as bad as you think.

Completely depends on the game. So absolute worst case scenario they suffer some fps dips.

[NightMiu]

With that AMD 1090T?

 

I think it'll be pretty bad. Maybe get a locked i5+cheap H-series board?

 

Should be fine for most games, honestly. You can OC that 6-core CPU too if you have adequate cooling and a good motherboard. It's basically an FX-6300 with slightly lower clocks.

Well, allright I'll try it out and hope for the best And a minimum cpu upgrade would be to a i5?

[Vellinious]

Probably won't be as bad as you think.  Save up for an upgrade, but in the mean time, that old Thuban is reaching the end of it's serviceable life, so overclock the snot out of it and let it spends it's last days going down in the glory of pc gaming....let it die standing up, fighting the good fight.  = )  Rar and stuff.

[ThinkWithPortals]

Well, allright I'll try it out and hope for the best And a minimum cpu upgrade would be to a i5?

That's what I'd recommend.

[App4that]

i5's are nice, they do a good job. But an i7 gives you some headroom. And matches your 980ti better than a i5.

[German_John]

Well, allright I'll try it out and hope for the best And a minimum cpu upgrade would be to a i5?

For pure gaming an i5 will be fine 95% of the time. Of course, that also depends on your games, but most games really won't benefit from an i7 noticably.

However, you have a pretty powerful card on your hands there, so if you can save up a liiiiittle longer you may go for an i7 for the non-gaming scenarios. That card, with an i7, would not to be taken lightly for even things like video editing.

[NightMiu]

Probably won't be as bad as you think.  Save up for an upgrade, but in the mean time, that old Thuban is reaching the end of it's serviceable life, so overclock the snot out of it and let it spends it's last days going down in the glory of pc gaming....let it die standing up, fighting the good fight.  = )  Rar and stuff.

Haha, will try, it gets really grumpy when i pass 4 Ghz

 

That's what I'd recommend.

 

i5's are nice, they do a good job. But an i7 gives you some headroom. And matches your 980ti better than a i5.

Allright, like should I go for z170, x99 or z97 what hell is even the diffrence (performance wise)?

[App4that]

Haha, will try, it gets really grumpy when i pass 4 Ghz

 

 

Allright, like should I go for z170, x99 or z97 what hell is eaven the diffrence (performance wise)?

Cost to performance. Z97>X99>Z170

 

Performance. X99>Z170>Z97

[Vellinious]

They're all very good platforms.  For just gaming, the Z97 or the new Z170 are just fine.  i5 type CPU and run with it.  The only time I'd think about the Z170 / X99 i7s if you were thinking about doing some serious video editing, or dealing with large data set databases and such.  

[don_svetlio]

Should be fine for most games, honestly. You can OC that 6-core CPU too if you have adequate cooling and a good motherboard. It's basically an FX-6300 with slightly lower clocks.

Phenom II > FX 6000

[don_svetlio]

Oh man what have I done. Just bought a 980ti. It was on sale! dont jugde. How bad will this card get bottlenecked? Please my friends, tell me the truth

GUYS - this is a Phenom II X6 1090T - it's on par with a 2500K

[Najuno]

Basically you´ll get some FPS decreases in certain games, and in other games you´ll lose even more, but it will be still a very potent GPU and boost your gaming experience by a lot. The only thing where you would really see tremendous bottleneck is in synthetic benchmarks suchs as Valleay, Heaven or 3D Mark.

Just prioritize for the next upgrade mainboard and CPU and you´ll be fine .

[App4that]

They're all very good platforms.  For just gaming, the Z97 or the new Z170 are just fine.  i5 type CPU and run with it.  The only time I'd think about the Z170 / X99 i7s if you were thinking about doing some serious video editing, or dealing with large data set databases and such.  

With every release of a new game the bar gets raised, a i5 is already not enough for anything past 1080p and is barely enough for 1080p. I see the i5 as a bad investment for someone with a 980ti. 390/970, maybe the i5 is a good choice.

[ThinkWithPortals]

 

X99 is for editing, rendering, pro stuff that requires upwards of six cores. If you're only gaming, stick to the Z series.

As for the Z-series, performance gains between Z97 and Z170 are minimal so it doesn't matter which you choose. For a new build I would be inclined to choose Z170 just because it's a newer chipset but both are great, I'm currently on Z97.

[don_svetlio]

With every release of a new game the bar gets raised, a i5 is already not enough for anything past 1080p and is barely enough for 1080p. I see the i5 as a bad investment for someone with a 980ti. 390/970, maybe the i5 is a good choice.

Phenom II X6 1090T = i5 2500K T_T

[NeatSquidYT]

OP: Upgrade to a Xeon I'd say.

[ThinkWithPortals]

With every release of a new game the bar gets raised, a i5 is already not enough for anything past 1080p and is barely enough for 1080p. I see the i5 as a bad investment for someone with a 980ti. 390/970, maybe the i5 is a good choice.

Barely enough for 1080p? It's got 4 good strong cores and threads, an i5 is just fine for 1080p and above. i5 and 980 Ti is a great combo.

[Vellinious]

With every release of a new game the bar gets raised, a i5 is already not enough for anything past 1080p and is barely enough for 1080p. I see the i5 as a bad investment for someone with a 980ti. 390/970, maybe the i5 is a good choice.

DX12 should be changing that though, with better multicore support.  We're not even to the point yet, that the i5 is going to hold back a 980ti all that much, if at all.  Nah, for just gaming and putzin around, the i5 is plenty.

[App4that]

Barely enough for 1080p? It's got 4 good strong cores and threads, an i5 is just fine for 1080p and above. i5 and 980 Ti is a great combo.

And you have a 390, my point made my good man :lol: . This gentleman has a 980ti, Digital Foundry has shown that a i5 will limit a 980ti, to death. That horse is dead my good man, it has ceased to be.