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Hey, I'm planning on ordering a RTX 2080 Founders Edition card and was I wondering if the new card could bottleneck and/or have compatibility issues with my current hardware, which I bought about 3 years ago and this is the first major upgrade I'm planning to do. So this is my current setup:

 

i7-4790k

MSI GTX 970

MSI Z97 Gaming 7 motherboard

Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2x8) DDR3 RAM

Antec VP650P power supply

 

So can I just swap out the 970 for the 2080 and be good to go? Will the 4th gen processor and DDR3 RAM present me some level of bottlenecking? Is the 650 watt power supply good enough or will I need to upgrade to a 750 w one?

 

Note that I will be playing on a 1920x1080 monitor with a 60 hz refresh rate so I'm not looking for 144 hz or 4K resolutions or anything like that...although I'm not ruling out a possible upgrade to a 1440p monitor in future. Some might say 2080 might be overkill for a 1080p 60fps experience but I want to do this as a measure of future-proofing my system, in case I find the need or money that would enable to do a complete system upgrade sometime in future with a 8th or 9th gen CPU and DDR4.

 

Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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It sure does not bottleneck 1080 Ti's, but problem is i wouldn't know if it'll bottleneck with RTX on.

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nobody knows yet, but it wont bottleneck a 1080ti i dont think, so it should be fine 

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