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i7 920 OC to 3.8Ghz With Gigabyte X58UD5 Bottleneck for GTX 670 SLI

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The i7 920 will slightly bottleneck your SLI GTX 670, not by much, but it is still there. Upgrading to the current generation CPU's and Motherboards will offer quite a bit of a performance difference. 

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Hi Tech Gurus!

 

I have an old i7 920 OC'd to 3.8Ghz using a Gigabyte X58UD5 motherboard. I have upgraded my video card from GTX 295 to GTX 670 SLI. Is my processor a bottleneck on this setup? I am playing mostly on 1920x1080P 120Hz now but will buy 2 more 1080P for surround gaming in the future.

 

Is it time to upgrade my aging computer or should I wait till the next generation of processors and motherboards (After Haswell) as my current setup is still OK?

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No do not worry at all, even at stock the 920 will be absolutely fine

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The i7 920 will slightly bottleneck your SLI GTX 670, not by much, but it is still there. Upgrading to the current generation CPU's and Motherboards will offer quite a bit of a performance difference. 

 

 

 

 

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Thank you for the answers guys! I will just wait till the next generation of procs and mobos and continue to game on my current setup. This setup is going 5 years. Great parts I guess!

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On most games you wont feel a bottleneck,

Try playing CPU intensive games like Arma2\Planetside 2 and you will feel the bottleneck.

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