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Well, judging from you answer I don't think I'm gonna say I'm without the same problem either. I've sat here looking at a Vega 64 I'm getting ready to plant in my rig and I'm wonder if it's gonna fly or float in the bottle.
I was waiting for Vega to come out back in May when I blew up my 390x clocking the daylights outta it. So I decided while I wait for Vega, I'll purchase a 580 8gb OC to tithe me over till Vega comes out. At $259.00 for a Sapphire 580 nitro+, I couldn't pass it up. Immediately, almost the next day, all 8gb cards were gone, sold out. Zip. The only thing left were 580 4gbs. because the bit miners bought them out in a month.
Believe me, I was lucky I got one. The 580's a super great performer. It flies out of the box. Reminds me of the 970 oc.
Last week, I purchased a Vega 64 for $500 (which is the original retail). But after talking with friends, they say there's a good chance the old 3770k would bottle neck the Vega. So here the Vega 64 is sits in the box till I can find out what kind of problems mating it with an old i7 presents. I heard odd rumors that non-UEFI boards BSOD the Vegas. So I'm scouring the websites trying to find answers before I supplant a known good 580 set up.
Hope you find the right card.
 
Paired a new 1080 with a 2 year old pc with i5 4460 and even with 2x8gb ddr3 ram, I have stutters even in LoL sometimes. More than sure CPU is bottlencking 🙁 and I thought it would be enough for 1080p gaming
 


Mercy! I'd love a new rig but I gotta spend 2 grand to get my teeth fixed. What makes me grovel about it is I hate my dentist. I have to keep telling myself, "What's so bad about a 580?" Lol.

 
Any idea where/how I can calculate the bottleneck for a build? How badly will an Nvidia 1080 8 GB card be bottlenecked with these:
Processor: Intel i5 2500K @3.30 GHz
MoBo: Intel DH67BL
RAM: 2 x 4GB Corsair XMS 3 1600MHz DDR3
 


Bottlenecking isn't something you can simply "calculate". It varies a lot, depending on the game your playing. For most games, yeah there will be a noticeable bottleneck.
 


Probably, but most indefinitely will be the GPU dock, the dock itself will put a big bottleneck on high end graphics cards, I only recommend the 1060 since the 1070 will get bottlenecked more by that dock.
 
I feel better than James Brown. I got the Vega up and running. Not using Freesync, I see no screen tears, shutters or split motion frames. Runs good with the old 3770k.
got lucky.. . except the heats' as heavy as my old 290x.
 
Pairing 1050 Ti with a Xeon X3363 but at 3.2Ghz. I would put that as a pink or blue, but yes it will do the job done, though by no means you should build one of those today because it only costs around $20 cheaper than sandy bridge. It's just nice to know that these LGA775/771 Quad core CPUs can still game.
 
So just to clarify: The forum ended. The Q6600 still utterly sucks. A 1050ti is now kinda slow.
How bad will it look for a 2.93ghz dual core E7500 and 1050Ti vs. a 2.4ghz quad core Q6600 and 1050Ti on world of warships at mid settings?
 


The E7500, yeah I doubt that will end well. As for the Q6600, WoWs is still light enough that it should run smoothly.
 
so if I have to wait for that cpu and use the E7500 am I not going to be able to pull off the wow's how bad will it be? Are you aware to any degree?
 


Not entirely sure, but it will be playable, just choppy, you'll probably have to lower quality settings to their lowest aswell. However, this should only happen in really heated areas with lots of players in one area.

Again, i'm not entirely sure, I'd have to test it out on a Core 2 duo if i had one. But from what I've found online, it will be playable but probably not the smoothest in terms of FPS.
 


Yeah, that's what I've been reading. I just got the 1050ti and if the processor takes too long I'll just put it in and give it a whirl. I'm trying to do screen capping so I figured quad is a must, but to just play I guess the E7500 will have to do haha

 
I installed a 390x in my computer a few years ago and had random power up problems using it. Black screen start up which only resolves by restarting the computer. I upgraded from a 750w psu to a 850w, wires, DDU the drivers, etc. even changed the paste on the card, running without clocks, too. Nope. Everything I did didn't work. Finally came to the conclusion the gpu was the problem.
So when I installed a 970 and it started great. Every time. Then I upgraded to a 580 oc card and that was fine. No startup problems. Last month I purchased a VEGA 64 and the start up problems returned. Black screen on start up only remedied by a restart.
Both 390x and VEGA use 2 eight pin power connections. I replaced the PSU three times so I assume this is a power problem inherited in the 3770k motherboard. Like it has a blown capacitor somewhere.
But before I upgrade to a newer cpu, ram and motherboard, are there any bottlenecking issues running 3770k with newer, larger power hungry cards? In other words, do any of you guys know any issues using 390 or VEGA with older i7 cpus (Ivy Bridge and older)?
 


I can't imagine that would be a problem. Possible as you said the 8 pin connector problem caused you to get black screens, but I think that's more of a motherboard issue as you stated. I think any quad core and even some dual cores are going to work with the card, obviously more cores at faster clocks is going to improve performance. But as far as I can tell there shouldn't be any compatibility issues.
 


Wow. Of all the possible fixes I did, I can't equate that this was my solution. But so far, it works. I took the event log errors and hit a Technet discussion site. The tech told me to try going into Control Panel> Power Options>Choose what power buttons do> uncheck the 'Fast start up' box and the last couple of weeks have been error free. It starts slower but it doesn't black screen. So it may be my start up programs convolute the startup processes? Aarrugh. Always something new.
Thanks for the help.
 
Well my cpu's not listed.But doing a lot of user benchmarks etc my 4170k amd should be 5/6% faster than the FX 4300 but that irrelevant on these crappy cpu's Now i have the msi 4gb gaming x 1050ti.Had a lot of hiccups.Shadow of mordor ran 29 fps on ultra 1080p till i redid my pc few hours ago and get a solid 60-66fps.Now i am getting an upgrade soon.

Question would be if i should go for the ryzen 1400 with the MSI x370 gaming plus board or the 1600 msi B350 pc mate.Which one will run best with this card.It's an upgrade kit.I am not considering to upgrade gpu anytime soon as its only 2 months old and the 1060 was a lot more expensive and i couldn't afford an upgraded psu at the moment.
 


4170K?? You mean an i3-4170?

If so, that CPU is quite fast vs the FX 4300 (like WAY faster), especially with a GTX 1050 Ti. Have you updated your graphics drivers?
 


No AMD FX 4170k.Same performance as the 4300 about just a little higher clock.Latest gfx driver installed.Reason why i am opting to upgrade to ryzen in a couple months cause of my bad cpu.

PS:AMD FX 4170k are really hard to find on official guides etc.

http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/6226348 pc specs.

 
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