i7-950 + GTX 1060

[theyeti87]

Hello Tom's community.

I'm seeking opinions on whether or not my i7-950 @ 3.07Ghz will bottleneck the likes of the new GTX 1060.

My monitor's resolution is 1080 @ 60Hz and I plan to keep use this monitor primarily for the foreseeable future.

 

[Terrorsquad1990]

Hello Tom's community.

I'm seeking opinions on whether or not my i7-950 @ 3.07Ghz will bottleneck the likes of the new GTX 1060.

My monitor's resolution is 1080 @ 60Hz and I plan to keep use this monitor primarily for the foreseeable future.

Honestly I would look for a different CPU/Motherboard as they ended active support for that CPU already, meaning it's very old.
Meaning it also lacks alot of new architecture and won't support many things around now.

But to answer your question; yes, your CPU will be a bottleneck due the above stated reason.

http://ark.intel.com/nl/products/37150/Intel-Core-i7-950-Processor-8M-Cache-3_06-GHz-4_80-GTs-Intel-QPI

 

[bicycle_repair_man]

In my opinion, the GTX 1060 will be held back by the CPU, but not by too much. We won't know for sure until the GTX 1060 has been benchmarked mind you.

 

[theyeti87]

Hello Tom's community.

I'm seeking opinions on whether or not my i7-950 @ 3.07Ghz will bottleneck the likes of the new GTX 1060.

My monitor's resolution is 1080 @ 60Hz and I plan to keep use this monitor primarily for the foreseeable future.

Honestly I would look for a different CPU/Motherboard as they ended active support for that CPU already, meaning it's very old.
Meaning it also lacks alot of new architecture and won't support many things around now.

But to answer your question; yes, your CPU will be a bottleneck due the above stated reason.

http://ark.intel.com/nl/products/37150/Intel-Core-i7-950-Processor-8M-Cache-3_06-GHz-4_80-GTs-Intel-QPI

Thanks for your input.

In my opinion, the GTX 1060 will be held back by the CPU, but not by too much. We won't know for sure until the GTX 1060 has been benchmarked mind you.

Those are my thoughts as well - that there will be a bottleneck, but for 1x 1080 display, I'm not sure I'd notice it all that much.

Thanks for the input.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

i can't agree wholly with the guys who've already posted. The 950 is older gen for sure, and yes it is not supported techinically any more. However, providing you've looked after your pc your current CPU is still a decent performer. It has the same bandwidth as most modern CPU's and as such won't have much problem saturating the GTX1060 with data. There may be a slight bottleneck with very CPU intensive games, but for the norm, you will not experience a bottleneck. And when you do, it won't be easily noticeable.

I would suggest you keep hold of your current system. No need to do a massive overhaul right now. Get the GPU, and if after trying it, if you aren't happy with the performance then you can look at other solutions. Don't pull the trigger on a new system just yet

 

[theyeti87]

i can't agree wholly with the guys who've already posted. The 950 is older gen for sure, and yes it is not supported techinically any more. However, providing you've looked after your pc your current CPU is still a decent performer. It has the same bandwidth as most modern CPU's and as such won't have much problem saturating the GTX1060 with data. There may be a slight bottleneck with very CPU intensive games, but for the norm, you will not experience a bottleneck. And when you do, it won't be easily noticeable.

I would suggest you keep hold of your current system. No need to do a massive overhaul right now. Get the GPU, and if after trying it, if you aren't happy with the performance then you can look at other solutions. Don't pull the trigger on a new system just yet

Your thoughts on this are similar to mine. I am able to overclock this CPU upwards of 3.7GHz without breaking much of a sweat. That should alleviate some bottlenecking issues.

By the way, props for your Q6600 system in your sig. That's what this i7-950 of mine replaced

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

i can't agree wholly with the guys who've already posted. The 950 is older gen for sure, and yes it is not supported techinically any more. However, providing you've looked after your pc your current CPU is still a decent performer. It has the same bandwidth as most modern CPU's and as such won't have much problem saturating the GTX1060 with data. There may be a slight bottleneck with very CPU intensive games, but for the norm, you will not experience a bottleneck. And when you do, it won't be easily noticeable.

I would suggest you keep hold of your current system. No need to do a massive overhaul right now. Get the GPU, and if after trying it, if you aren't happy with the performance then you can look at other solutions. Don't pull the trigger on a new system just yet

Your thoughts on this are similar to mine. I am able to overclock this CPU upwards of 3.7GHz without breaking much of a sweat. That should alleviate some bottlenecking issues.

By the way, props for your Q6600 system in your sig. That's what this i7-950 of mine replaced

Thanks, the old Q6600!!! One of the best overlockers of all time. Still doing it's thing

With regard to your CPU, yes you can OC too. But also the turbo freq. is 3.3 so it's not that it has poor single core performance either. A little OC would negate the potential bottleneck. What mobo do you have? A decent 300- 400 mhz increase will help.

Good luck with the new GPU. I'd love to stick that card in my machine, but although the Q6600 was good in its day, it can only hold medium settings at 1080p, along with my sucky 560ti Maybe Ill win the lotto and get a new system!!

 

[theyeti87]

i can't agree wholly with the guys who've already posted. The 950 is older gen for sure, and yes it is not supported techinically any more. However, providing you've looked after your pc your current CPU is still a decent performer. It has the same bandwidth as most modern CPU's and as such won't have much problem saturating the GTX1060 with data. There may be a slight bottleneck with very CPU intensive games, but for the norm, you will not experience a bottleneck. And when you do, it won't be easily noticeable.

I would suggest you keep hold of your current system. No need to do a massive overhaul right now. Get the GPU, and if after trying it, if you aren't happy with the performance then you can look at other solutions. Don't pull the trigger on a new system just yet

Your thoughts on this are similar to mine. I am able to overclock this CPU upwards of 3.7GHz without breaking much of a sweat. That should alleviate some bottlenecking issues.

By the way, props for your Q6600 system in your sig. That's what this i7-950 of mine replaced

Thanks, the old Q6600!!! One of the best overlockers of all time. Still doing it's thing

With regard to your CPU, yes you can OC too. But also the turbo freq. is 3.3 so it's not that it has poor single core performance either. A little OC would negate the potential bottleneck. What mobo do you have? A decent 300- 400 mhz increase will help.

Good luck with the new GPU. I'd love to stick that card in my machine, but although the Q6600 was good in its day, it can only hold medium settings at 1080p, along with my sucky 560ti Maybe Ill win the lotto and get a new system!!

The i7 of mine is paired with an Asus Rampage III Formula mobo, 6x2GB DDR3 1600, 250GB samsung EVO, 2TB / 640GB WD hdd's. I've had it clocked up to 3.7. The motherboard is certainly one of the best of the X58 chipset boards. It even survived a PSU blowing up.

I still have my Q6600 complete and running with 4GB DDR2 800, an intel ssd, msi p35 platinum combo mobo, and a r7 260x gpu. I've taken this cpu up to 3.2GHz up from (as you know) 2.4.

Anyway, thanks for your input.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

i can't agree wholly with the guys who've already posted. The 950 is older gen for sure, and yes it is not supported techinically any more. However, providing you've looked after your pc your current CPU is still a decent performer. It has the same bandwidth as most modern CPU's and as such won't have much problem saturating the GTX1060 with data. There may be a slight bottleneck with very CPU intensive games, but for the norm, you will not experience a bottleneck. And when you do, it won't be easily noticeable.

I would suggest you keep hold of your current system. No need to do a massive overhaul right now. Get the GPU, and if after trying it, if you aren't happy with the performance then you can look at other solutions. Don't pull the trigger on a new system just yet

Your thoughts on this are similar to mine. I am able to overclock this CPU upwards of 3.7GHz without breaking much of a sweat. That should alleviate some bottlenecking issues.

By the way, props for your Q6600 system in your sig. That's what this i7-950 of mine replaced

Thanks, the old Q6600!!! One of the best overlockers of all time. Still doing it's thing

With regard to your CPU, yes you can OC too. But also the turbo freq. is 3.3 so it's not that it has poor single core performance either. A little OC would negate the potential bottleneck. What mobo do you have? A decent 300- 400 mhz increase will help.

Good luck with the new GPU. I'd love to stick that card in my machine, but although the Q6600 was good in its day, it can only hold medium settings at 1080p, along with my sucky 560ti Maybe Ill win the lotto and get a new system!!

The i7 of mine is paired with an Asus Rampage III Formula mobo, 6x2GB DDR3 1600, 250GB samsung EVO, 2TB / 640GB WD hdd's. I've had it clocked up to 3.7. The motherboard is certainly one of the best of the X58 chipset boards. It even survived a PSU blowing up.

I still have my Q6600 complete and running with 4GB DDR2 800, an intel ssd, msi p35 platinum combo mobo, and a r7 260x gpu. I've taken this cpu up to 3.2GHz up from (as you know) 2.4.

Anyway, thanks for your input.

At 3.7 i think you will be absolutely fine with that GPU.

No, bother glad to have helped somewhat! Enjoy your new GPU Glad your old Q6600 is still rocking. Long live the Q6600!

Cheers

 

[Adicuta77]

I can not believe at 3.8-4.0GHz i7 950 will bottleneck GTX 1060, even in games that are highly dependent on CPU.

 

[bon3s85]

I can not believe at 3.8-4.0GHz i7 950 will bottleneck GTX 1060, even in games that are highly dependent on CPU.

i can tell you that it is a bottleneck. i have the same setup and i get 3900 in 3dmark dx12 test. and with a i7 6700k it will get 6300.

 

[Adicuta77]

I can not believe at 3.8-4.0GHz i7 950 will bottleneck GTX 1060, even in games that are highly dependent on CPU.

i can tell you that it is a bottleneck. i have the same setup and i get 3900 in 3dmark dx12 test. and with a i7 6700k it will get 6300.

Benchmark's and DX12... Of course DX12 is a new implementation and work better for new CPU's... lol. I don't pay money for 3D Mark and other stuff like that it's call the purely marketing.. I pay for real world in games only, and I asure you in over 90% games you don't see eny much difference in fps between CPU i7 6700k and i7 950 OC. 3dmark is another story.