Upgrading, will this bottleneck?

[FileCorrupted]

I am upgrading my graphics card and found a good deal on ncix for a gtx 770 super clocked, my question is will it be bottlenecked by my Phenom II X4 955? If so then will a bottleneck cause any damage and should I just let it bottle neck until I upgrade my cpu?

[Goldilock]

The bottleneck will exists but won't be appearant unless you decide for dual GPU.

[Panda of the Shadow]

It will be bottelnecking the 770. And what do you mean by damage?

[Panda of the Shadow]

The bottleneck will exists but won't be appearant unless you decide for dual GPU.

I think that it will bottelneck it quite a bit.

[FileCorrupted]

It will be bottelnecking the 770. And what do you mean by damage?

Oh nevermind I dont think it would, but I meant would the bottleneck ever cause harm to the graphics card

[Panda of the Shadow]

Oh nevermind I dont think it would, but I meant would the bottleneck ever cause harm to the graphics card

You will get less fps but for the rest no damge to the gpu.

[FileCorrupted]

You will get less fps but for the rest no damge to the gpu.

Yes thats what I thought, what I am thinkinhg of doing is getting the 770 and then upgrading the cpu when I have the money

[deathjester]

Well your Phenom is about 1/3rd slower then a 8350 in floating point and the 8350 is about half the speed as Haswell in floating point, so in a CPU bound game like an MMO? The bottleneck will be your CPU big time. In a single player game or an FPS? You won't be as CPU bound, because they are mostly GPU bound. You WILL be CPU bound though. The 8 thread 8350 does very well in BF4 because it uses 8 threads which negates it's floating point. The same should hold true for all newer 8 thread titles. The 8350 will do well.

 

Here is a 780ti. Granted it's faster then a 770, but you can see how cpu's scale when every thread is used on the chip. Your chip is on there.

http://gamegpu.ru/images/remote/http--www.gamegpu.ru-images-stories-Test_GPU-Action-Battlefield_4_China_Rising_-test-bf_4_proz.jpg

 

The 770 probably will give you around the same FPS since the 780ti is bottlenecked.

 

If you found a great deal on the card though? A 770 is awesome. You just won't be making the most of it, but you can upgrade the cpu later, or upgrade the cpu now and wait for Nvdia's next series or go with AMD for mantle. Decisions are all yours.

 

Keep in mind those are multiplayer benchmarks. Single player your CPU should be quite a bit better because it is working less. Same with single player games.

[OutlawedConsole]

Oh nevermind I dont think it would, but I meant would the bottleneck ever cause harm to the graphics card

no it shouldn't damage it

[FileCorrupted]

Well your Phenom is about 1/3rd slower then a 8350 in floating point and the 8350 is about half the speed as Haswell in floating point, so in a CPU bound game like an MMO? The bottleneck will be your CPU big time. In a single player game or an FPS? You won't be as CPU bound, because they are mostly GPU bound. You WILL be CPU bound though. The 8 thread 8350 does very well in BF4 because it uses 8 threads which negates it's floating point. The same should hold true for all newer 8 thread titles. The 8350 will do well.

 

Here is a 780ti. Granted it's faster then a 770, but you can see how cpu's scale when every thread is used on the chip. Your chip is on there.

http://gamegpu.ru/images/remote/http--www.gamegpu.ru-images-stories-Test_GPU-Action-Battlefield_4_China_Rising_-test-bf_4_proz.jpg

 

The 770 probably will give you around the same FPS since the 780ti is bottlenecked.

 

If you found a great deal on the card though? A 770 is awesome. You just won't be making the most of it, but you can upgrade the cpu later, or upgrade the cpu now and wait for Nvdia's next series or go with AMD for mantle. Decisions are all yours.

 

Keep in mind those are multiplayer benchmarks. Single player your CPU should be quite a bit better because it is working less. Same with single player games.

Any news on when the next nvidia series will be?