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Would i7 920 and gtx 1660 work?

CryptsKush
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I am going to upgrade my pc soon so i want to know if my gtx 260 can be replaced by a gtx 1660. Also if the i7 920 would work fine with the 1660. 

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work, yes as long as the PCIe slot on the board works. Work well, maybe not due to CPU bottleneck unless it's 4k or 21:9 1440p. Even 16:9 1440p could see CPU bottleneck.

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It will function. Since it's a modern GPU with an old processor, you may experience a bottleneck. Consider an RX 580 instead to save money, as you'd likely see the same performance gain 

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Well it wouldnt if you overclock it enough. Well it wouldn't with higher ress tbh. 

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You'd probably get by just fine with a gtx 645, gtx 750, or gtx 760. Nvidia is still making new drivers for them. Those are all fair priced used right now on Ebay. From my experience the 750 has a questionable fan controller.  People really seem to be digging those amd rx cards right now. What are you trying to play?

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12 minutes ago, Animal901 said:

You'd probably get by just fine with a gtx 645, gtx 750, or gtx 760. Nvidia is still making new drivers for them. Those are all fair priced used right now on Ebay. From my experience the 750 has a questionable fan controller.  People really seem to be digging those amd rx cards right now. What are you trying to play?

why would you do that if you have the budget for something better and the support will end pretty soon?

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33 minutes ago, CryptsKush said:

I am going to upgrade my pc soon so i want to know if my gtx 260 can be replaced by a gtx 1660. Also if the i7 920 would work fine with the 1660. 

It can work. If you are going to OC that cpu to about 4GHz , you wouldn't be extremely bottlenecked, but you would be a little bit CPU bottlenecked. As of now I'm using an RX 480 that i bought for about 75 euros(used), and it still had 1 year of warranty, and my CPU is an Xeon w3570 (basically i7 960).With that i7 920 and a gtx 1660 you would have roughly the same performance as I do with the rx 480, but you would be paying about 3 times as much on the GPU.

 

Considerig the price of the gtx 1660, you could either buy it and use it with the i7 920, you could buy an rx 480/gtx 970/gtx 1060 and use it with the i7 920 and you would have roughly the same performance for less money,or you could buy something like a ryzen 3 1200+ cheapest mobo+8gb of ram for about 150-160 euros, and from there you could either go used for the GPU, or new.If you would go used, you could probably buy an rx 480 or a gtx 970/1060 for the money you would have left after buying the cpu,mobo and ram.

 

And, if you wanted a PC that's more powerful, you could sell the PC with the i7 920 and with that money, either buy a ryzen 5 1600/2600 instead of the ryzen 3.

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1 hour ago, LukeSavenije said:

why would you do that if you have the budget for something better and the support will end pretty soon?

Then throw away that old i7. Lol

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1 minute ago, Animal901 said:

Then throw away that old i7. Lol

he at least already has it

 

unlike that weak gpu you're trying to recommend

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2 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

he at least already has it

 

unlike that weak gpu you're trying to recommend

Its an i7 920............. I'd question if a gtx 9whatever would be bottlenecked by the old i7.

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Just now, Animal901 said:

 

Its an i7 920............. I'd question if a gtx 9whatever would be bottlenecked by the old i7.

you know that platform supports 6 core xeons that are like 20 bucks, right?

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1 minute ago, LukeSavenije said:

you know that platform supports 6 core xeons that are like 20 bucks, right?

Then move on to the xeon and stop thinking about the i7. I only run i7 cause my old tb85 does not do xeon.

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Just now, Animal901 said:

Then move on to the xeon and stop thinking about the i7. I only run i7 cause my old tb85 does not do xeon.

or get the gpu and a nicer cpu down the line... like after computex or something...

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10 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

you know that platform supports 6 core xeons that are like 20 bucks, right?

X5670 intensifies

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Draws 400 watts under max load, for reference.

 

How many watts do I need? ATX 3.0 & PCIe 5.0 spec, PSU misconceptions, protections explained, group reg is bad

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19 minutes ago, Mr. horse said:

6 cores are not always better on x58. one cold OC a quad much farther in most cases.

But if OP has a use for the 2 extra cores Id say go for it.

don't underestimate the overclocking potential of a x58 xeon

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4 hours ago, CryptsKush said:

I am going to upgrade my pc soon so i want to know if my gtx 260 can be replaced by a gtx 1660. Also if the i7 920 would work fine with the 1660. 

Youre currently running on ancient hardware, I would not buy any "new " parts for your pc, I would straight up just buy a new computer. an i7 920 wont run anything modern videogames or most work programs . you could go a $750 budget build and get a new system entirely. but whatever you do. dont buy a 1660 for an i7 920

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It will work okay. Here's a video comparing the 920 to the 8700K paired with a GTX 1070. The 1660 is a little less powerful than the 1070, so the bottleneck wouldn't be quite as bad. It's still providing over 60 FPS in most titles and in some cases over 120 FPS:

 

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920 @ 3.8-4ghz would still run quite well with a modern gpu. he might loose like 5-10fps. 

Some of you people vastly overestimate the worth of a newer gen cpu in games. 

 

Its often less of a difference than one would think. 

 

GPU makes the largest difference like always. 

 

Would there be bottleneck? yea but it would still perform fairly well. 

 

I gave a friend a x58 930 @ 4ghz pc with a 680 in it and when he put a newer gpu in it the performance more than doubled so its not like it wont make a difference. 

 

And he still plays all modern titles at solid fps etc. 

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hi

i think i need to replace my faulty 650w Chieftec Psu to something new, so i wonder what graphics card would be the max for the i7-920 cpu without overclocking and would a new 550w Psu do the job also, even with 24gb of ram? (i currently have only 9gb, lol).

some Psu calculator site also gave max wattage as 513w, so 550w should be plenty?

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just buy a Xeon for the pc and then buy the graphics card here's a video where it worked. Also maybe upgrade the PSU of its a low watt power supply.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc9M2LR9PlE

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that xeon is like 2/3 the performance of the 4th gen i7-5820k?

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i7-920-vs-Intel-i7-5820K-vs-Intel-Xeon-X5680/834vs2340vs1312

and what about the rest even:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i7-5960X-vs-Intel-i7-5930K-vs-Intel-Xeon-X5680/2332vs2336vs1312

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