Will a GTX 970 work on my PC.

[danyousilly]

Hello everyone! I'm new here and this is my first post. I'm getting ready to upgrade my PC. I'm going little by little. The first piece I was thinking of upgrading was my GPU. Now, I was wondering if I'm able to use a GTX 970 on my system.

My SPECS:

Case: NZXT Tempest

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 920 @2.67GHz

MB: ASUS P6T

RAM: G.Skill RipjawsX Series DDR3 8GB 1800MHz

Thanks!

 

[turbopiki]

What is your power supply ?

 

[danyousilly]

oh wow, that was quick lol I have a 1000w Power Supply. Not sure the brand.

Thanks for responding so quick

 

[turbopiki]

you will be fine then

 

[danyousilly]

I figured I would be. The only thing I was wondering if it will bottleneck (however you spell that) for having an old CPU and motherboard. Does it matter? Or it only matters if you have a good power supply to power it up?

 

[turbopiki]

your FPS (frames per second) will be a bit lower with this CPU but not by alot, Graphics card is still the most important thing in gaming (Your are doing gaming right ? 😀)

 

[danyousilly]

I see. That makes sense. I was just confused on that subject since my PC is about 5 years old. I yes lol I am gaming 😀

Do you think I can still get atleast 60fps with the GTX970 on The Witcher 3?😱

 

[turbopiki]

Not Ultra but on high yes if you will turn thins like anti-aliasing off.

even GTX 980 cant do avrage 60fps on ultra, Withcer is very demanding game

http://www.techspot.com/review/1006-the-witcher-3-benchmarks/page3.html

 

[danyousilly]

Man I didn't know that. I don't know why a lot of people have been saying that you'll get around 60+ FPS with the card. I've even seen some videos and then only get around 40 FPS average.

Anyways, thank you so much for your help. I really hope the GTX 970 is a big jump from the GTX 580 that I have xD

 

[turbopiki]

it is a big jump

 

[danyousilly]

it is a big jump

What about at GTX 980? Would it be better to save a little more money and get that? Or would a 970 be enough?

 

[turbopiki]

970 is enough best price/performance card. You can aslo wait for AMD to release thier new card i think they will come out 18th or 24th of JUNE so 1 week from now