8120 bottlenecking 780ti?

[Wazza1212]

Hello,

I'm looking at buying a 780ti, I currently have a GTX770, how badly would my fx 8120 bottleneck my GPU?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Dblkk]

Don't upgrade! Best advice. the 770 plays ultra/high on everything now. If you single monitoring it anyway. If your talking multi monitor 4k or others like that, then its not so much your 8120 bottlenecking the gpu, its the 8120 just not good enough. But otherwise your fine with what you have, save your $, especially since the new 800 series is coming shortly.

 

[theonerm2]

Hello,

I'm looking at buying a 780ti, I currently have a GTX770, how badly would my fx 8120 bottleneck my GPU?

Thanks in advance.

I currently have a GTX 770 and an FX 8120 as well. It won't bottleneck a 780ti according to benchmarks I've looked at. But still... If I were to upgrade to a 780ti I would upgrade everything else as well.

 

[Dblkk]

Hello,

I'm looking at buying a 780ti, I currently have a GTX770, how badly would my fx 8120 bottleneck my GPU?

Thanks in advance.

I currently have a GTX 770 and an FX 8120 as well. It won't bottleneck a 780ti according to benchmarks I've looked at.

Im not saying that it would bottleneck a 780ti, I do think it will limit full potential yes most definitely. But if your single monitor gaming, you wont even notice a playable difference between 770 and 780ti. And if your mulit monitor or 4k res, yes you would need a 780ti, and yes you will notice a great drop in performance due to your cpu.

 

[Dblkk]

Its not a matter of a cpu bottlenecking a graphics card. Its what your doing with the system that determines which is going to be utilized the most and first. If your doing something completely cpu demanding, then a 780ti will do nothing more than a 750, if your gaming single monitor style, then 780ti will give you what ultra at like 100fps, and the 770 gives ultra at 60? Both totally playable and not worth $800. But if your gaming, but running tri monitors, that's more taxing on a cpu and gpu than traditional single monitors. And the 8120 will/should be able to push tri monitors, if you jumped up to 4770k you will notice a great boost in performance.

There are several reviews showing 8350 vs i5 vs i7 running multi monitors and 4k res. Using the same graphics card, the 8350 is always below the pack, with i7 at extreme configs well well above the amd.

Not dissing amd, nor trying to say intel is better. Im just saying what each is better at than the other.
Example, I render using programs that utilize full core potential, so all 8 cores. i5 is well below mine, i7 is neck and neck. But if I were to use a different program or game or anything which restricts full core potential, then botht he i5 and i7 will smoke mine.

 

[theonerm2]

The thing I don't quite understand is why would you want to buy a 780ti when you already have such a nice graphics card? I'd spend that money toward a Core i5 4670K or i7 4770K setup and sell the old parts you won't be using anymore. It would only cost $300 to $400 to switch to a good intel setup. You would have about $400 left from the money you would have spent on the graphics card if you got the i5. Plus if you sold the GTX 770, FX 8120, and your AM3+ motherboard you would surely be able to get another at the very least $300 but probably more... So then you would have $700 and you could buy a GTX 780ti anyway.

 

[Wazza1212]

The thing I don't quite understand is why would you want to buy a 780ti when you already have such a nice graphics card? I'd spend that money toward a Core i5 4670K or i7 4770K setup and sell the old parts you won't be using anymore. It would only cost $300 to $400 to switch to a good intel setup. You would have about $400 left from the money you would have spent on the graphics card if you got the i5. Plus if you sold the GTX 770, FX 8120, and your AM3+ motherboard you would surely be able to get another at the very least $300 but probably more... So then you would have $700 and you could buy a GTX 780ti anyway.

Yeah actually, thanks! What would you recommend? 4670k or 4770k? and can you also recommend a good motherboard please?

 

[theonerm2]

The thing I don't quite understand is why would you want to buy a 780ti when you already have such a nice graphics card? I'd spend that money toward a Core i5 4670K or i7 4770K setup and sell the old parts you won't be using anymore. It would only cost $300 to $400 to switch to a good intel setup. You would have about $400 left from the money you would have spent on the graphics card if you got the i5. Plus if you sold the GTX 770, FX 8120, and your AM3+ motherboard you would surely be able to get another at the very least $300 but probably more... So then you would have $700 and you could buy a GTX 780ti anyway.

Yeah actually, thanks! What would you recommend? 4670k or 4770k? and can you also recommend a good motherboard please?

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