Will 1080ti run decently with i3 2120

[guilhermecalifornia55]

So basically i have an i3 2120 cpu and a 960 sc 2GB, i plan on upgrading the whole pc, right now i can either get a 1080ti and get a i7 8700k with a z370 mobo and 16GB ram later (about 3 to 4 months) or i can do the opposite, getting the cpu and motherboard and ram and 3 or 4 months later getting the gpu.
Im basically 50/50 in that decision as of now, need to know if it will bottleneck too much, it will be used for gaming, fortnite, csgo, rainbow six siege, gta V and the upcoming cod.
Thank you in advance.

 

[boju]

Keep to your original plan and get the card. 4 months from now 1080Ti may be hard to find new, just don't know.

Right now you can get an almost new 1080Ti for half price. You'll be paying full price for a 2080 and bet bottom dollar there wont be much difference besides price ~900+euros or however much new cards are there.

As for running the card with the i3 there's no harm in trying. In theory and logical thinking it will bottleneck but be interesting to see it in practice since actual experience on the matter is limited because not many people would be in the same boat and tell about it.

 

[jankerson]

What others have said is right. There will be a bottleneck but it still should perform better than the 960 thats for sure, just wont get the card's full potential for the time being.

Okay then, so it's definitely worth getting the 1080ti right now and 3 to 4 months later getting the cpu+mobo+ram. Thanks.

3 to 4 months?

The new GPU's will be out real soon, then the new Intel CPU's will be soon after that.

Do you have a PSU that can actually handle a GTX 1080Ti?

Might be worth waiting on all of it for now.

Or if you do get the GTX 1080Ti just leave it in the box until you can afford to do the upgrade.

I already have an 80plus gold 750W PSU and ill use the 1080ti for these following 3 to 4 months and then get the cpu+mobo+ram. Also from what I know, the 1080ti won't be discontinued right? If so it will most likely not drop a lot in price and this one I'm thinking of getting is cheap.

What PSU is it?

It does matter, the GTX 1080Ti s no joke.

I recommend not using it, the massive bottleneck will just be pathetic at anything below 4K.

Would be like running a race car with 4 flat tires.

Wouldn't even be worth taking it out of the box.

http://www.coolermaster.com/powersupply/80-plus/v750/ It's this one, why would I not use it, even if bottlenecking wouldn't it be better than rocking my 960 sc with 2 GB of VRAM?

Actually no it won't be, it will be THAT BAD.... Your CPU is too weak.

Will be horrendous.

Ok then, so should I still go with the 1080ti or go with the cpu+mobo+ram, and then buy the GPU 4 months later? Worst case scenario if I go with the 1080ti, I can try it install the drivers and check out if I get an fps boost on the games I currently play and if not ill switch back to the 960.

I it was me I would get the new CPU, MB and RAM 1st.

But then I would wait and see what the pricing and performance of the new GPU's are and new CPU's before doing anything if I had that system.

Or like I said get the GTX 1080Ti and leave it in the box.

 

[jankerson]

Keep to your original plan and get the card. 4 months from now 1080Ti may be hard to find new, just don't know.

Right now you can get an almost new 1080Ti for half price. You'll be paying full price for a 2080 and bet bottom dollar there wont be much difference besides price ~900+euros or however much new cards are there.

As for running the card with the i3 there's no harm in trying. In theory and logical thinking it will bottleneck but be interesting to see it in practice since actual experience on the matter is limited because not many people would be in the same boat and tell about it.

Playing the games he wants to play with THAT CPU and putting in a GTX 1080Ti will kill it.

Especially in CPU intensive games could be basically unplayable due to the bottlenecking.

Now, if he was playing at 4K he would get away with it, maybe.

 

[guilhermecalifornia55]

What others have said is right. There will be a bottleneck but it still should perform better than the 960 thats for sure, just wont get the card's full potential for the time being.

Okay then, so it's definitely worth getting the 1080ti right now and 3 to 4 months later getting the cpu+mobo+ram. Thanks.

3 to 4 months?

The new GPU's will be out real soon, then the new Intel CPU's will be soon after that.

Do you have a PSU that can actually handle a GTX 1080Ti?

Might be worth waiting on all of it for now.

Or if you do get the GTX 1080Ti just leave it in the box until you can afford to do the upgrade.

I already have an 80plus gold 750W PSU and ill use the 1080ti for these following 3 to 4 months and then get the cpu+mobo+ram. Also from what I know, the 1080ti won't be discontinued right? If so it will most likely not drop a lot in price and this one I'm thinking of getting is cheap.

What PSU is it?

It does matter, the GTX 1080Ti s no joke.

I recommend not using it, the massive bottleneck will just be pathetic at anything below 4K.

Would be like running a race car with 4 flat tires.

Wouldn't even be worth taking it out of the box.

http://www.coolermaster.com/powersupply/80-plus/v750/ It's this one, why would I not use it, even if bottlenecking wouldn't it be better than rocking my 960 sc with 2 GB of VRAM?

Actually no it won't be, it will be THAT BAD.... Your CPU is too weak.

Will be horrendous.

Ok then, so should I still go with the 1080ti or go with the cpu+mobo+ram, and then buy the GPU 4 months later? Worst case scenario if I go with the 1080ti, I can try it install the drivers and check out if I get an fps boost on the games I currently play and if not ill switch back to the 960.

I it was me I would get the new CPU, MB and RAM 1st.

But then I would wait and see what the pricing and performance of the new GPU's are and new CPU's before doing anything if I had that system.

Or like I said get the GTX 1080Ti and leave it in the box.

I will go with the 1080ti and test it to see if I get a decent enough boost, it will probably run at 50% but still is better than the 960, I just think I shouldn't miss out on a great deal like the one I got, the RTX GPU's will cost a lot more than what I will spend in this 1080ti and the only one that will perform better will be the 2080ti, which is now going for like 1100€.

 

[boju]

Let us know how it goes, im interested to find out what happens. Nothing of the system will be harmed in this experiment.

Before you do, jot down some numbers from your current system for the games you play. CPU and GPU minimums and average FPS and usage.

If CPU usage does sky rocket, can always cap the frame rate (You're currently using an 144Hz screen yea?) by using Nvidia Inspector / MSI Afterburner to limit frame rate.

 

[guilhermecalifornia55]

Let us know how it goes, im interested to find out what happens. Nothing of the system will be harmed in this experiment.

Before you do, jot down some numbers from your current system for the games you play. CPU and GPU minimums and average FPS and usage.

If CPU usage does sky rocket, can always cap the frame rate (You're currently using an 144Hz screen yea?) by using Nvidia Inspector / MSI Afterburner to limit frame rate.

I already cap my fps on 144hz in every game I play so yeah, ill uncap and check out the usage and fps in each game I play, I just checked a website (thebottlenecker.com) and put the specs there and it said it would be more or less a 29% bottleneck, not sure if its a lot or not, for all I know, as long as I stay away from CPU intensive games I'm good.

 

[boju]

Bottleneck would be higher than that. Just going to have to see what you get real world.

 

[jankerson]

Bottleneck would be higher than that. Just going to have to see what you get real world.

Oh yeah, a lot higher than that.

 

[boju]

We'll see what happens jankerson ;P

 

[jankerson]

We'll see what happens jankerson ;P

Yeah. LOL

I might cripple my 8086K (1080Ti) or 8700K (1080) and see just how bad it might be. ROFL


I did it before with my 7700K and the GTX 1080 and it was very bad, made the 7700K into an I3.

 

[boju]

Im running a 2600k at 4.5 with an Aorus 1080Ti it does just fine. One thing though, 16GB ram minimum for the amount of vram just so pagefile isn't hammered.

 

[jankerson]

Im running a 2600k at 4.5 with an Aorus 1080Ti it does just fine. One thing though, 16GB ram minimum for the amount of vram just so pagefile isn't hammered.

That's not an i3...

 

[boju]

Neither is your i7 7700k you reckon a 1080 turned it into an i3.

 

[jankerson]

Neither is your i7 7700k you reckon a 1080 turned into an i3.

When I did the test, I disabled 2 cores and removed the OC.

So in effect I turned the 7700K it into an i3.... The bottleneck was bad. 😀

And that was with a GTX 1080..... A 1080Ti would be a lot worse.

Try it on your 2600K..... 😉

It's the same gen as his i3.... Will give you a good idea how bad it will be.

 

[boju]

Ya i believe you there. More fps does require cpu double time. There's no argument against 2nd gen i3 will bottleneck a 1080Ti or even for 4c 4t 6th & 7th gen i5s over 60Hz. They're having trouble too in multi threaded games. Depends on the game as you did mention earlier.

Lets just play this out and hope we get results

 

[jankerson]

Ya i believe you there. More fps doesn't require cpu double time. There's no argument against 2nd gen i3 will bottleneck a 1080Ti or even for 4c 4t 6th & 7th gen i5s over 60Hz. They're having trouble too in multi threaded games. Depends on the game as you did mention earlier.

Lets just play this out and hope we get results

Will be interesting.

I still have my 7700K and Z270 MB in a box, will use it when I retire my 3rd gen i5 system once Win 7 reaches EOL.

 

[boju]

Edited post. Cpu does double time not doesn't, just in case you saw it.

And you did lol but didn't notice. Aaaahh well

 

[jankerson]

Edited post. Cpu does double time not doesn't, just in case you saw it.

I know what you ment. 😀

 

[boju]

Cheers jankerson. Good chat.

 

[jankerson]

Cheers jankerson. Good chat.

Yep.