News RTX 5090 with Core 2 Duo? Nvidia driver change opens up bizarre system build options

[Admin]

Updated Nvidia driver opens up the possibility of the worst CPU bottleneck in computing history.

RTX 5090 with Core 2 Duo? Nvidia driver change opens up bizarre system build options : Read more

 

[salgado18]

Pfff, a Core 2 Quad... didn't have the guts to use a Core 2 Duo, then? The bet is still on the table!

Also: benchmarks! (never going to happen, I know)

 

[BloodyBonzai2]

If you run a game like the original Crysis 1 in 8K or 12K max settings, the bigger issue will be the bottleneck from using PCIe 2.0. Really cannot say it will always be a CPU bottleneck when increasing the resolution alleviates the burden from the CPU.

 

[aberkae]

If you run a game like the original Crysis 1 in 8K or 12K max settings, the bigger issue will be the bottleneck from using PCIe 2.0. Really cannot say it will always be a CPU bottleneck when increasing the resolution alleviates the burden from the CPU.

Lol I ran metro exodus on a 10 year old i7 980xe at 4.3 ghz all cores at extreme settings with 1080ti ftw hybrid at 3440x1440p and got a 60 fps experience. I decided that decade old experiment is over and paired my 5090 by PNY with 9800x3d to mitigate any bottleneck. Fackers are charging thousands of dollars for every inch of performance gained in the gpu side now. Why mitigate that performance with a cpu/pcie bottleneck especially when you can get a 9700x b650e and 32 gigs of ram all under $430 via microcenter now.

 

[FunSurfer]

If you run a game like the original Crysis 1 in 8K or 12K max settings, the bigger issue will be the bottleneck from using PCIe 2.0. Really cannot say it will always be a CPU bottleneck when increasing the resolution alleviates the burden from the CPU.

...and it will be a PCIe 1.0 bottleneck if using RTX 5060 as it has only 8 PCIe lanes... and if the system supports only PCIe 1.0 to begin with, we will get AGP performance again!

 

[BFG-9000]

While this is good news for anyone still running Maxwell on Core-2 as the article mentions, it's pretty hard to extrapolate this to RTX 5090 when we know even properly POSTing on Legacy BIOS became increasingly hit-or-miss after Kepler, so I'm not going to hold my breath for a Youtube video showing it happening. The most universally compatible Maxwells were those dual-vBIOS MSI models with the physical switch to select between separate UEFI or Legacy BIOS-only vBIOSes.

While nVidia's vBIOS lock has been broken, right now that only means you can flash a different manufacturer's unmodified vBIOS, while modding even just clocks still results in a Code 43 where drivers refuse to load.

It would make for a pretty dull accurate title: Now Theoretically Possible To Run RTX 5090 on Core-2 If nVidia Supplies a Signed Custom Hybrid vBIOS Removing UEFI Pathway

 

[Ful4n1t0c0sme]

Another clickbait title...

 

[Jabberwocky79]

Time to dust off my old i7-2700K !

 

[tbq]

Time to dust off the old Socket 939 AMD Venice machine and see how old we can go with a gen1 PCIe slot. Anyone want to lend a 5090 for the test?

 

[_D_D]

IIRC popcnt was introduced quite a while ago in Nvidia software due to a change in Microsoft's compiler that Nvidia were not aware of. Surprised it's taken this long to fix.

 

[KyaraM]

I think I know a content creator on YT who would try this 🤣

Really looking forward to this video, lol.

 

[techfreak]

If you run a game like the original Crysis 1 in 8K or 12K max settings, the bigger issue will be the bottleneck from using PCIe 2.0. Really cannot say it will always be a CPU bottleneck when increasing the resolution alleviates the burden from the CPU.

Such old PC the bottleneck will not only be PCIE bus.
- DDR2 RAM to get 8GB or more can be very difficulty.
For modern OS like Win 10 you need at least 16GB
- SATA 2 SSD won't be running at full speed
- PCIE Bus 2.0
- Legacy/CSM mode May not be able to boot if the GPU has no legacy VBIOS.
Certain card will have a GPU BIOS screen when you boot only these type of
GPU will work on older motherboards.

Even if you can make it work, the performance will be very bad especially once OS take up
more than 8GB that's it. To get 16GB DDR2 if you can find one that will be a history in the making.
I still have a old AMD Phenom II rig unfornuately I have to retired it.

Mainly due to RAM as even with Win 7 when it hits more than 4GB the performance will suffer.
Is diffiicult to get 8GB RAM and once I tried it but it kept crashing so I retire it.