Recent content by John_489

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    Will Phenom II X4 B97 bottleneck GeForce GTX 980 Ti ?

    Well I've opened it up and i see no reason why a dual slot card wouldn't fit in there. I don't plan to use the nearby PCI slot. Or are there other factors to consider?
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    Will Phenom II X4 B97 bottleneck GeForce GTX 980 Ti ?

    I think I'll end up playing more GPU intensive games than CPU so I'll experience minimal bottleneck. I'll just buy the 980 with and spend the extra $$ on the PSU. Long term I think it will be a better investment. And yes I checked.. written in caps it said maximum power 240W lol However a...
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    Will Phenom II X4 B97 bottleneck GeForce GTX 980 Ti ?

    My set up is AMD Phenom II X4 B97 3.2 Ghz in a HP Compaq 6005 Pro SFF with 8GB RAM. Wanted to upgrade my GPU to EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB DDR5 and I'm aware I'll get some form of bottleneck I just wanted to know how bad it would be. Of course I'll upgrade the power supply and if need be RAM...
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    Is the Dell Precision 490 tower good for gaming?

    I'm looking to buy the desktop as it has a great offer. It has two Dual-Core Intel Xeon 2.0GHz (dont know if it's 5100 or 5300 series) with 8GB RAM and an N VIDIA graphics card (not too sure which one) I'm not too worried about the graphics card as i have budgeted to upgrade that if necessary...