Will old 480 GTX SLI system power modern games?

[fergie]

I haven't been using my PC for gaming for some time and wondered if it will run PUB G and other modern games? I have 2 x water cooled 480 GTX in SLi, whatever the basic i7 was four years ago overclocked to 4.4ghz but only 6 gig of DDR3.

 

[Dunlop0078]

Well PUBG in particular has pretty much no SLI support from my understanding and a single gtx 480 is below the min requirements. It would likely run with a single 480 but not well. Some well optimized semi modern games that support SLI would likely run fine, gta v for example.

 

[fergie]

Think I'll hang on and wait until the new grahics cards come out in that case. I don't want to upgrade to a 1080ti when a new card will probably be released soon. thanks

 

[artk2219]

I haven't been using my PC for gaming for some time and wondered if it will run PUB G and other modern games? I have 2 x water cooled 480 GTX in SLi, whatever the basic i7 was four years ago overclocked to 4.4ghz but only 6 gig of DDR3.

You should be able to run it at low i believe, but it wont be amazing. Honestly I'd recommend replacing both of those cards with a single moderately powerful card for better performance, lower heat, and lower noise. Literally an RX 560, 1050, or 1050 ti would spank both of those, or you could go used and pick up a GTX 780 or Radeon 7950/7970 / R9 280(x)/380(x), R9 290(x)/390(x), or GTX 970. Also you need some more RAM, at least 8GB's total, preferably 16. At least finding used DDR3 thats pretty cheap shouldn't be much of a problem.

 

[RobCrezz]

what I7 is it exactly? As the gtx 480s are more than 4 years old.

 

[King_V]

What resolution are you running?

 

[fergie]

what I7 is it exactly? As the gtx 480s are more than 4 years old.

It's an i7 930 I believe. Water4cooled running at 4.4 ghz

 

[fergie]

What resolution are you running?

I have a 27inch Dell monitor .It goes 1440 I believe but don't mind if its HD

 

[artk2219]

what I7 is it exactly? As the gtx 480s are more than 4 years old.

It's an i7 930 I believe. Water4cooled running at 4.4 ghz

Thats a little older than 4 years it still has some life left in it though, have you thought about upgrading to a 6 core xeon as a place holder until you decide on a new build?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBYBMQrK7XE

 

[RobCrezz]

what I7 is it exactly? As the gtx 480s are more than 4 years old.

It's an i7 930 I believe. Water4cooled running at 4.4 ghz

Yeah I would consider upgrading the whole platform if you are thinking about buying high end cards like the 1080 ti.

On your current platform anything higher than a 1060 would be held back by your CPU.

 

[fergie]

what I7 is it exactly? As the gtx 480s are more than 4 years old.

It's an i7 930 I believe. Water4cooled running at 4.4 ghz

Thats a little older than 4 years it still has some life left in it though, have you thought about upgrading to a 6 core xeon as a place holder until you decide on a new build?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBYBMQrK7XE

I'll be honest, I had this built for me and because of the watercooling I don't really want to be swapping parts about. It is quite old but has done me well and is still all operating as it should. It was built by Scan and the build quality is amazing.