Could use some PC upgrade advice
Hey guys, currently I have:
EVGA X58 Motherboard
EVGA GTX 780 ti
Intel i7 975 @ 4.1 Ghz
Generic 1000 Watt Power Supply
2X6 Gb of Ram GDDR3
Windows 7
I want to add another 780 ti and maybe upgrade the ram. My question is would adding another 780 ti bottle neck my rig or would its performance be bottle necked by the old-ish Motherboard? Could my rig handle it as far as power consumption? What type of ram should I get? Thanks for any help/advice you can give.
-DarkSilhouette
Could use some PC upgrade advice
Your system should handle everything right now. What are you looking to make perform better? Unless you are playing games on multi monitors then a gtx780 i7 and 12gb of memory is more than enough to handle every game out there and if you are having issues with a certain game then it is software related. Example games like Watchdogs is so poorly coded it runs terrible on any system no matter what you upgrade. It is possible that your windows is running processes in the background slowing your computer down. To test this try downloading and running Razer game booster.
Save your money and tweak the settings in your bios and overclock everything if you want more speed. SLI is hit and miss, runs great on some games, does very little on others and some games although show better benchmarks you will get graphical errors or micro stuttering. The more RAM you add usually the timings increase thus leading to a less responsive computer. I usually dont like more than 8GB becuase the timings on the ram start to shoot up and I cant oc as far. 1000Watt is more than enough if you decide to do gtx780 SLI.
I have half the power of your system and run all games on there highest settings. I cant imagine you are having any problems.
Could use some PC upgrade advice
If you really have an itch to upgrade...
I would say your bottleneck is your old generation intel x58 motherboard and i7 processor.
If you decide to upgrad the RAM than look for high speed AND low latency memory. Dont be fooled into getting high speed memory when the timings are crazy high like 12 12 12. This type of memory will show good loading times but will be laggy. I have had goodluck overclocking Corsair Vengeance/dominator series and Mushkin Redline RAM.
Goodluck, let us know what you decided and the results you found.
Could use some PC upgrade advice
Wait untill those games release and if you have issues with them then upgrade. You might be surprised that they run just fine especially if they are reusing the older game engines. If a company states they are using a new game engine that is when upgrades may be needed.
If you are daring then look into overclocking your gtx780. This yields huge improvements and its free!