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GTX 780 bottleneck

  • 18-11-2013 8:54pm
    #1
    aaronsharkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 320 ✭✭


    I am looking at the zotac amp edition of the 780 and was just wondering if my i5 3330 would bottleneck it to a great extent


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  • #2
    marco_polo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,088 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    It shouldn't really be a hinderance to the GPU in graphically intensive stuff, although obviously in a handful of CPU bound games it won't have as much grunt as say an overclocked i5 or i7. (Although even in those cases it's not technically a bottleneck on the GPU as it is not prevent it from doing more work :))


  • #3
    aaronsharkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 320 ✭✭aaronsharkey


    So would I be ok playing bf4 with it


  • #4
    marco_polo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,088 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    aaronsharkey wrote: »
    So would I be ok playing bf4 with it

    I think you should should have enough CPU power to play BF4 without any problems.


  • #5
    Skatedude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,674 ✭✭✭Skatedude


    aaronsharkey wrote: »
    So would I be ok playing bf4 with it

    yes, but bf4 has issues with cpu optimization that still need to be patched but that cpu should be ok.
    but what card are you upgrading from? Will your power supply be enough? Does your motherboard have a suitable pci express slot?


  • #6
    aaronsharkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 320 ✭✭aaronsharkey


    Yeah the PSU is a 750 watt XFX and my mobo is a Asrock b75 pro 3, I am currently running a 7850 on it so should do almost certain there is is a pcie 3.0 x 16. I can't thank you guys enough I might be actually able to sleep tonite, What should I upgrade next cpu or monitor (Currently using 32 inch 1080p hdtv 60Hz) ?. Thanks again


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  • #7
    Brian OH 99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37 ✭Brian OH 99


    I play BF4 at 50 FPS on ultra with my 7870XT Boost and my i5 3570k @ 3.4GHZ...my CPU stays around 50 degrees but my GPU is going up to 85 degrees (fixing that soon), while BF3 was 55-70 degrees GPU, 40-50 degrees CPU. so I think BF4 is not very CPU intensive...very GPU intensive though. You should be fine on Ultra CPU wise and definetely fine GPU wise with that beastlY 780...

    p.s: BF4 is super buggy and badly optimised and no matter how good your system is, you'll still crash like crazy. (one every 3 rounds minimum for me) However lower end pcs tend to get BSOD, directX and disconnect (screen goes black and closes) and sound crashes (a sound loops and game freezes) waaay more often. Also BF4 decided to go AMD drivers first so Nvidia cards are crashing a bit more than AMD ones, but a few patches has made that crash difference be quite small.


  • #8
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    I still maintain that it's a hardware issue rather, as in, specific client specifications are causing the game to crash. Not saying it's not a bug, but I've an Fx6300 and GTX590, and in about 50 games played, I've crashed once. It's a bit of a roulette, but considering you have people saying they crash every game, every third game, etc, I haven't had any problems whatsoever with crashing on my setup.


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