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[A big brave boulder of meat]

Hello, I was wondering if anyone would know if I might get bottlenecking issues with my new GTX 980TI when I have an I7980 non-over cloaked CPU on an Asus rampage III? I know I won't get the most out of the GPU seeing it's pci 3.0 and my motherboard uses 2.0.

I'm just hoping it will be ok till I upgrade the rest!

Thanks for any info.

[xWiredx]

There's definitely the possibility of a little bottlenecking. I mean, MWO loves CPU cycles anyway. Keep particles, environment, and shadows down a notch (medium or high for each) and you should be more than fine until you upgrade later on. You shouldn't have to worry about PCIE 2.0 being a huge issue, either. Plenty of bandwidth there as long as you've got the full 16 lanes open for it.

[A big brave boulder of meat]

Thanks dude, you think it will run well at 2k resolution?

I'll try pasting system spec when home from work.
All I can remember is I have a I7 980..Soon to have GTX 980TI, 24g ram, 2ssd in raid0 and an Asus rampage III.
Also a big Noctua cpu cooler. Maybe I should OC my cpy a bit? Never tried so I'm scared. Hehe.

[darqsyde]

Edwig Von Baconbody, on 06 August 2015 - 10:00 AM, said:

Thanks dude, you think it will run well at 2k resolution?

I'll try pasting system spec when home from work.
All I can remember is I have a I7 980..Soon to have GTX 980TI, 24g ram, 2ssd in raid0 and an Asus rampage III.
Also a big Noctua cpu cooler. Maybe I should OC my cpy a bit? Never tried so I'm scared. Hehe.

Definitely overclock. MWO loves more CPU speed, so it's time to start sweating it. You should have no problems finding OC guides for your processor and Mobo.

[xWiredx]

Yeah, definitely OC. Take that CPU as far as it will go (as long as it stays stable). There are probably plenty of guides on OCing Nehalem/Westmere chips by now.

2K... well, it shouldn't be a problem, but definitely lower particles, environment, and shadows. I'd say medium is probably the way to go on those until you upgrade the CPU+mobo. The 980 Ti will definitely handle all of the GPU-centric options at very high without a problem, but you have to take into account that the CPU needs to do work on some of the settings in addition to feeding the GPU.

[A big brave boulder of meat]

So how do you think it would run if I do overclock? And is overclocking the mobo nesissary? I'm new at this overclocking stuff.

[xWiredx]

You can't really overclock a motherboard. Certain components on higher-end ones, but not the motherboard itself.

Overclocking the CPU... well, search for posts by Goose (like the Some Performance Tests thread) and you can see about what your CPU is capable of.

[Golrar]

Might be a little advanced for your first time...

[Bill Lumbar]

Golrar, on 06 August 2015 - 03:39 PM, said:

Might be a little advanced for your first time...

I have found if you are gonna go in.... go in big

[MavRCK]

If you can't overclock, use throttlestop to run that cpu at its maxspeed -- wish i knew about this app a lot time ago for my i7-4770...