I7 920 gtx 460 sli bottllenceck

[keviheit]

Hello,

I have a i7 920 CPU stock clock and gtx 460 sli is there a bottleneck with my cpu

 

[keviheit]

Hello,

I have a i7 920 CPU stock clock and gtx 460 sli is there a bottleneck with my cpu? I just recently got a second card and I see no improvement.

 

[gmcizzle]

No way! I have a i7 920 @ 3.6ghz with a GTX 580 and my GPU is still probably my bottleneck. OC that bad boy and you still have a monster, trust me

 

[keviheit]

I am going to go do that!

 

[gmcizzle]

As long as you aren't using the stock cooler, go for it! I would make sure your temps are no more than 85c though, and ideally below 80c.

 

[amuffin]

Overclock your 920?

 

[neonneophyte]

you can tell very easy on your own. bottlenecks vary program to program.

so, fire up whatever game it is you are playing. make sure task manager is running so you can see your cpu usage. play a little, and then see how active your cpu cores were. if they were running at 100 percent, you have a bottleneck

its also entirely possible whatever you are running doesnt support sli

and as the gent above me said, overclock that cpu. its begging for it

 

[gmcizzle]

Didn't you already make a thread for this...http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/330303-33-tomshardware#t2461808

OC your 920 to 3.5+ghz and there won't be a bottleneck.

 

[keviheit]

Yea i was going to go pick up the CORSAIR H100 after work im sure that will keep it running cool. Not sure if i will need diffrent memeory I only have 1333 Memeory. Most of the forums on over clocking people have 1600

 

[jhengst1962]

Plz oc your i7 920. I added a corsair h70 water cool system, oc'd my 920 to 4 ghz, presto, no bottle neck. Play black ops on high and it never breaks a sweat

 

[keviheit]

I have seen a lot of inprovement with ocerclocking my system I cant seem to get it higher than 3.7 GHZ without getting Blue screen. I looked up the cpu I have its the i7 920 D0 is the cpu i have and running 1066 memeory. I was thinking if i got differnet memory it would help get 4GHZ

 

[Mousemonkey]

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