[SOLVED] Oldies... i7-870 and GTX 770?

[1405]

12 year old CPU and 8 year old graphic card.
I have an i7-870 OC to 3.8 Gz and came across a used (obviously) GTX 770 4GB at a fair price. I wanted to put together some old parts for a retro 1080p gamer. All I'm lacking is the graphic card. Which component would be the bottleneck to the other? Bottleneck Calculator says it's OK, but I was told not to trust that site.

 

[USAFRet]

Today is Sunday.
The OP has not been seen here since Tuesday.

Lets leave it be until they come back.

 

[lga1156_ftw]

This is with x3470 which is same chip, this xeon just has slightly better internal memory controller : https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/38823175

Intel Xeon X3470 @ 4295.99 MHz - CPU-Z VALIDATOR

[xv1ibm] Validated Dump by Anonymous (2021-01-22 15:17:11) - MB: Asus P7P55D - RAM: 16384 MB

valid.x86.fr

Around 4.1ghz should be possible with i7-870 for 24/7 use, from my experience but its always silicon lottery.

45nm chips can hold 1.45v for years on end if thermals are fine. My i7-875k has been 1.45v for 9 years without degration. Anyone who has westmere "lga1366" socket chips should stay below 1.40vcore and 1.325 vtt.

You guys talk like its ancient history but somehow my friends with new amd processors complain why they get less fps than me. Gamebreaker for amd was ryzen 5000 series, after that they truly went past intel in every category.

 

[SamirD]

Yep, older processors can really still be usable especially with a good OC. A solid OC on the x3470 would put in the 3600's single thread performance imo:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-Xeon-X3470-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-3600/1291vs3481

People are too quick to dismiss older tech. While this is about using the OP's system for gaming, a system like that can still be used for regular productivity without missing a beat. Even lga775 systems can if they have enough ram. It's sad how much tech is trashed because it's deemed 'old'. Working hardware deserves to keep on working.

 

[1405]

Sorry guys. I'm back. Life threw me some curve balls that I had to deal with first. All good now.

Lots of interesting information there. Thank you all. Especially NoizePMP for that treatise he provided. As I mentioned above early on, this is just a junk/fun build I wanted to put together because I had most of the parts laying around and needed a project. (My main gaming PC is a i5-10600k and RTX 2070. ) Plus I wanted to see what this old '09 Lynnfield CPU could still do with today's AAA games at max graphics settings. I'm not after any more FPS than my 60Hz monitor can display in V. refresh. I'll take it, of course But it appears the once-mighty i7 @ 3.8GHz can even handle more GPU. My feeling is that there's some GPU bottleneck with the 770. I'm going to try my GTX 1660 just for kicks.


EDIT: GTX 1660 this time.

 

[USAFRet]

I will choose best answer so the Mod can finally close this thread.

Just select whichever reply helped you the most.
That counts as "closed".