PC

[Linus Sebastrian]

i just bought a pc for 300 $ with a gtx 970 , i7 3370 and 8 gb of ddr3 ram

did I do good buy ?

does it bottleneck with gtx 970 and i7 3770

[Constantin]

5 minutes ago, Linus Sebastrian said:

i just bought a pc for 300 $ with a gtx 970 , i7 3370 and 8 gb of ddr3 ram

did I do good buy ?

does it bottleneck with gtx 970 and i7 3770

The only "bottleneck" i see here is, only 8GB of RAM

[xAcid9]

i7 3370? 

[Mark Kaine]

11 hours ago, Constantin said:

The only "bottleneck" i see here is, only 8GB of RAM

So which game did you run into recently that needed more than 8GB system memory since you're seemingly hell bent on it being not enough? 

[MadAnt250]

12 hours ago, Linus Sebastrian said:

i just bought a pc for 300 $ with a gtx 970 , i7 3370 and 8 gb of ddr3 ram

did I do good buy ?

does it bottleneck with gtx 970 and i7 3770

I say get another 8gb of RAM and you will be set for most games.

[Paul Rudd]

13 hours ago, Linus Sebastrian said:

did I do good buy ?

You got an average buy. I'd say you paid just a tiny bit more than you could have. Nothing to pitch a fit over really.

• i7-3770 - $50.00 to $90.00 USED
• GTX 970 - $60.00 to $80.00 USED
• 8GB DDR3 RAM - $12.00 to $22.00 USED

That's around $122.00 to $192.00 for these 3 things, depending on their condition and brands of course. Pretty much around $100 to $150 will get you a case, power supply, motherboard and some type of storage. So that's around $222.00 to $342.00 that you could have built it yourself for. Again, depending on the brands and conditions of each of the actual parts you got.

13 hours ago, Linus Sebastrian said:

does it bottleneck with gtx 970 and i7 3770

Depends on the game you play. There's a bottleneck present somewhere in pretty much any PC. This combo is a good combo imo. Test some games and you can see any bottleneck for yourself. The 4GB of VRAM should limit the use of higher textures and certain VRAM intensive graphic settings being set to higher settings. This limit will mostly take place in newer graphic intensive games released over the past 4-6 years or so.

 

Just keep the textures and VRAM intensive graphic settings around Medium to High while monitoring your VRAM usage and it won't be much to worry about. Less graphic intensive games won't push your hardware to the extreme so not much to worry about with them except optimizing the game in general.

[Constantin]

3 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

So which game did you run into recently that needed more than 8GB system memory since you're seemingly hell bent on it being not enough? 

Battlefield V

Resident Evil 2

MetroExodus

STAR WARS Battlefront II

Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order

Battlefield 1

Shadow Of The Tomb Raider

And many others, those are the ones that i have installed in my PC!

 

 

 

[Mark Kaine]

9 minutes ago, Constantin said:

Battlefield V

Resident Evil 2

MetroExodus

STAR WARS Battlefront II

Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order

Battlefield 1

Shadow Of The Tomb Raider

And many others, those are the ones that i have installed in my PC!

 

 

 

^I think that's a bit weird,  but I have some of this games and going to check!

 

But,  are you sure you don't mean Vram and at what settings / resolution? 

[Constantin]

4 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

^I think that's a bit weird,  but I have some of this games and going to check!

 

But,  are you sure you don't mean Vram and at what settings / resolution? 

Max settings 4K

[Constantin]

Just now, Constantin said:

Max settings 4K

RAM, not Vram

[KnowledgeByTech]

1.98% bottleneck so it well work well together. I'm assuming you meant i7-3770K, correct?

[xAcid9]

5 hours ago, KnowledgeByTech said:

1.98% bottleneck so it well work well together. I'm assuming you meant i7-3770K, correct?

stop using bottleneck calculator.

[Mark Kaine]

6 hours ago, Constantin said:

Max settings 4K

Ah but then your post isn't relevant to the topic as the OP isn't going to play much if anything at all at 4k with this PC.

 

 

[Linus Sebastrian]

On 12/30/2019 at 7:12 AM, Constantin said:

Battlefield V

Resident Evil 2

MetroExodus

STAR WARS Battlefront II

Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order

Battlefield 1

Shadow Of The Tomb Raider

And many others, those are the ones that i have installed in my PC!

 

 

 

Im planing to play non of those

buying those games would cost half of the value of my pc

its not your fault, I forgot to meantion that this pc is an upgrade from 2 gb of ram and 2 core old pc

 

[Linus Sebastrian]

On 12/30/2019 at 4:58 AM, Intransigent said:

You got an average buy. I'd say you paid just a tiny bit more than you could have. Nothing to pitch a fit over really.

• i7-3770 - $50.00 to $90.00 USED
• GTX 970 - $60.00 to $80.00 USED
• 8GB DDR3 RAM - $12.00 to $22.00 USED

That's around $122.00 to $192.00 for these 3 things, depending on their condition and brands of course. Pretty much around $100 to $150 will get you a case, power supply, motherboard and some type of storage. So that's around $222.00 to $342.00 that you could have built it yourself for. Again, depending on the brands and conditions of each of the actual parts you got.

Depends on the game you play. There's a bottleneck present somewhere in pretty much any PC. This combo is a good combo imo. Test some games and you can see any bottleneck for yourself. The 4GB of VRAM should limit the use of higher textures and certain VRAM intensive graphic settings being set to higher settings. This limit will mostly take place in newer graphic intensive games released over the past 4-6 years or so.

 

Just keep the textures and VRAM intensive graphic settings around Medium to High while monitoring your VRAM usage and it won't be much to worry about. Less graphic intensive games won't push your hardware to the extreme so not much to worry about with them except optimizing the game in general.

thanks for the effort and I agree to everything that you said but I live in a third world country and to ship those pruducts here would cost double.

 

[xAcid9]

15 minutes ago, Linus Sebastrian said:

im

 planing to play non of those

 

What game you going to play?

[Linus Sebastrian]

Just now, xAcid9 said:

What game you going to play?

fortnite , minecraft, csgo,and photoshop + adobe premiere

[xAcid9]

5 minutes ago, Linus Sebastrian said:

fortnite , minecraft, csgo,and photoshop + adobe premiere

I don't think you going to get CPU bottleneck in Fornite unless you aiming for like 150-300 FPS.

Not sure about Minecraft, should've no problem for 60fps. 

CSGO can be a problem if you aiming high (200-300) fps i think.

 

Photoshop/Premiere is 99.9% CPU bottleneck. 

[Linus Sebastrian]

58 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

I don't think you going to get CPU bottleneck in Fornite unless you aiming for like 150-300 FPS.

Not sure about Minecraft, should've no problem for 60fps. 

CSGO can be a problem if you aiming high (200-300) fps i think.

 

Photoshop/Premiere is 99.9% CPU bottleneck. 

i never aim to more than 75 fps because of my monitor,

why photoshop and adobe is bottleneck ?\

[xAcid9]

6 minutes ago, Linus Sebastrian said:

i never aim to more than 75 fps because of my monitor,

why photoshop and adobe is bottleneck ?\

Because photoshop and premiere don't really use your GPU so performance is solely depend on your CPU power, hence CPU bottleneck. 

[Paul Rudd]

1 hour ago, Linus Sebastrian said:

thanks for the effort and I agree to everything that you said but I live in a third world country and to ship those pruducts here would cost double.

In that case, you got a hell of a deal from your location.

1 hour ago, Linus Sebastrian said:

I forgot to meantion that this pc is an upgrade from 2 gb of ram and 2 core old pc

Oh you're set then when it comes to expectations. You'll love the i7-3770/GTX 970 combo.

 

Out of curiosity, and if you don't mind me asking...

• what is the make and model of your motherboard?
• what country are you in?
• what's the brand, model and speed of your RAM?
• And does your RAM have heat spreaders on it?

I ask because it may be possible to get you some extra RAM, possibly at a good price.

[Constantin]

2 hours ago, Linus Sebastrian said:

Im planing to play non of those

buying those games would cost half of the value of my pc

its not your fault, I forgot to meantion that this pc is an upgrade from 2 gb of ram and 2 core old pc

 

No, not that old

[Linus Sebastrian]

1 hour ago, Intransigent said:

In that case, you got a hell of a deal from your location.

Oh you're set then when it comes to expectations. You'll love the i7-3770/GTX 970 combo.

 

Out of curiosity, and if you don't mind me asking...

• what is the make and model of your motherboard?
• what country are you in?
• what's the brand, model and speed of your RAM?
• And does your RAM have heat spreaders on it?

I ask because it may be possible to get you some extra RAM, possibly at a good price.

• i have an asus P8H61-MX
• I LIVE IN ALBANIA
• my ram is  samsung 1600mhz
• no my ram doesnt have any of those
• problem is that my mother board supports only 2 ram slots and i have to buy 16 gb if i upgrade
• i forgot to tell that it has an ssd

[Linus Sebastrian]

38 minutes ago, Constantin said:

No, not that old

its grafic card was from 2006 

dell optiplex 760

[Linus Sebastrian]

1 hour ago, xAcid9 said:

Because photoshop and premiere don't really use your GPU so performance is solely depend on your CPU power, hence CPU bottleneck. 

true but ..... im using them and they perform very good