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well most mobos have all of there slots x16 in 3.0 with (1) card if you add a second then the other slots go down to 8x or 4x depending upon how old/cheap they are are currently my MB runs both cards at 3.0 x16 because i spent alot of moolah but it works haha.

Typically anything int the medium-range and down, which let's be honest, is probably all you need to spend performance wise. Typically only come with one 16x slot since nothing really maxes it out except maybe a dual-gpu card like a 690 or Titan Z.

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Amazing answer I am getting another Video card for Sli in June so that will hopegully fix the problem I will but the Sta cable in a new connecti

 

Amazing answer I am getting another Video card for Sli in June so that will hopegully fix the problem I will but the Sta cable in a new connection also

 

 

This is going to be a wall of text so hang on tight. GFX is a shorthand way of saying Graphics card. For the short answer upgrade your GFX card. Things to check would be your memory, what port on the MOBO, motherboard, the SSD is plugged into, and last the GFX solution. What to check on the memory is that it is running in Double channel or better. How many channels is the bandwidth between the CPU and the RAM.  The most common now is double channel memory, intel has some CPU's that support triple and even quad channel memory. The best way to describe channels is like describing how fast you can get materials to a manufacturing plant. if there is only one road going into the plant what it can produce is limited by the amount of materials that it can receive at a time. with two roads you effectively double the theoretical output of the plant. but you also have to keep in mind the ability of the plant to process the raw materials. The plant aka CPU can only process so much at a time that is a possible limiting factor.  I looked at the benchmark on your processor and it has a score of 7,180 on http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-3570K+%40+3.40GHz . So the processor is most likely not the bottleneck. The way to check what how many channels your memory is running in is by using CPU-Z. Go to the memory tab and at the top right it will say what mode. If it is running in single channel somthing is wrong with the way your DIMM's are aranged in the slots, but double or more is just fine.  Next The port the on the MOBO the SSD is plugged into. SSD are excellent for random read right speeds and in games with large textures this makes a big difference. Having a SSD is great but if it is plugged into a 3Gb port and not a 6Gb port the speed of the SSD is about useless because the bandwidth of the buss is so small it can't transfer data to the processor as fast as it can read it. Check your MOBO documentation to check the it is pluged in right place. Allright take a breath last bottleneck. 4GB of VRAM is good for 3D graphics and games with large textures, but the GPU, Graphics Processing Unit, was good at the time but on many modern games you should realy consider a new GFX card. your curent card has a score of 5,382 a 770 has a score of 6,214 and both cost about the same. The other option, what i would do, would be to get a second 670 and run them in SLI to increase the graphics perfprmance. But if you d this make shure to get the same modle card with teh same amount of VRAM otherwise it wolnt work. This has been a long poast but i hope it helped you better undersatnd bottlenecks. I used spell check this time your welcome and have a nice day=)

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Typically anything int the medium-range and down, which let's be honest, is probably all you need to spend performance wise. Typically only come with one 16x slot since nothing really maxes it out except maybe a dual-gpu card like a 690 or Titan Z.

I want to get a really good board that has Lga 1155 socket and has a large heatsink or Waterblock on it because I am going to Water cool my system

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Can you elad me to where I can find a Motherboard and a Motherboard that I can buy?

 

You would have to buy the waterblock separately.

Do you have any idea why my video card is getting 200 less points in Unigine heaven than all of the other gtx 670 Superclocked I have seen?

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Do you have any idea why my video card is getting 200 less points in Unigine heaven than all of the other gtx 670 Superclocked I have seen?

Differences in performance between identical GPU's is common, it's called the silicon lottery for a reason. Your card might not be as good as the ones that have been used in benchmarks.

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Differences in performance between identical GPU's is common, it's called the silicon lottery for a reason. Your card might not be as good as the ones that have been used in benchmarks.

Literally every benchmark that I have seen about this video card is getting no lower than 1000 points. I have seen a lot of scores also and mine is by far the worst of them all

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Literally every benchmark that I have seen about this video card is getting no lower than 1000 points. I have seen a lot of scores also and mine is by far the worst of them all

That means it was a vey bad pick, my card (a GTX 660) can barely overclock whatsoever. I've seen people overclock by 225 Mhz and higher and I can only get 15 or 20 without it crashing.

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That means it was a vey bad pick, my card (a GTX 660) can barely overclock whatsoever. I've seen people overclock by 225 Mhz and higher and I can only get 15 or 20 without it crashing.

Maybe I will just get a new card because I am very disapointed in the bad scores that I am getting. This could be affecting the game performance a lot

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Maybe I will just get a new card because I am very disapointed in the bad scores that I am getting. This could be affecting the game performance a lot

It's not much of a difference really, I'm also not sure if non-satisfactory performance is covered by an RMA. I'd focus on replacing the motherboard first, see if it helps. You could have 2 bad PCI-E lanes. So I'd start with that.
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It's not much of a difference really, I'm also not sure if non-satisfactory performance is covered by an RMA. I'd focus on replacing the motherboard first, see if it helps. You could have 2 bad PCI-E lanes. So I'd start with that.

Sounds good. Do you know of any Got motherboards with LGA 1155 sockets?

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It looks like an ATX should fit. The motherboard I recommended is an m-ATX mobo. Which will fit easily.

Do  think there is any chance that the problem I am getting with my computer could be that the Windows is corrupt? Because when I downloaded Windows it didnt work and I had to call them to get a different code every time that I tried reinstalling it so do you think that maybe if I upgrade to Windows 8 that could fix it?

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Do  think there is any chance that the problem I am getting with my computer could be that the Windows is corrupt? Because when I downloaded Windows it didnt work and I had to call them to get a different code every time that I tried reinstalling it so do you think that maybe if I upgrade to Windows 8 that could fix it?

No, if Windows was corrupt it wouldn't hurt GPU performance, the drivers are the files that control the performance of the GPU. If there were corrupt files you'd be seeing blue screens and constant freezing.

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No, if Windows was corrupt it wouldn't hurt GPU performance, the drivers are the files that control the performance of the GPU. If there were corrupt files you'd be seeing blue screens and constant freezing.

Ok I am going to get Windows 8 anyways but thanks for that info. I am going to get my new Motherboard soon and I am just going to get an Lga 1150 socket motherboard and I am going to get a new I5

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