Will Xeon W3530 @ 2.8 Turbo 3.06 stock speed bottleneck GTX 960 2G ?

[Mohamed-Shams]

I have a Dell precision T3500 with Xeon W3530 Processor running at stock speed 2.8 ghz Max in turbo mode 3.06 ghz .. and 8 gb of ddr3 ram @ 1.066 mhz and an AMD Firepro V8800 gpu .. So I wanna to upgrade the gpu for a gaming one and I'm thinking of buying a GTX 960 2GB but I wonder if my cpu will bottleneck the gpu .. What do you think ?

 

[Dex does Computers]

I dont so because it has 4 cores 8 thread @ 3 ghz so it should okay. Performance should be around a 3770 non k.

 

[RobCrezz]

The 960 should be just fine, your CPU is basically a rebranded i7 930.

 

[RobCrezz]

I dont so because it has 4 cores 8 thread @ 3 ghz so it should okay. Performance should be around a 3770 non k.

No, no where near that fast man, is a few years older.

 

[Mohamed-Shams]

I ordered two used cards .. one is Colorful iGame Ymir TOP OC GTX 960 2GB & GALAXY GTX 680 SOC 2GB .. My friend will take the 960 and I'll have the 680 .. But I'm afraid of BOTTLENECKING .. Will it ?

 

[RobCrezz]

I ordered two used cards .. one is Colorful iGame Ymir TOP OC GTX 960 2GB & GALAXY GTX 680 SOC 2GB .. My friend will take the 960 and I'll have the 680 .. But I'm afraid of BOTTLENECKING .. Will it ?

It will be fine, shouldn't be much bottle necking.

 

[Mohamed-Shams]

Thank you .. I'll figure it out tomorrow or after and I'll report my results here
But I think that in heavy CPU intensive games like GTA 5 will be a bottleneck .. because of when I played it with much weaker GPU ( Was a Firepro V8800 the workstation version of the 5870 with 2gb ) CPU usage was above 90 % in some locations in Los Santos and outside .. sometimes it hit the 99% !! .. So IMAGINE a card like GTX 680 😀

 

[RobCrezz]

Depends entirely on the game. Some may bottleneck, some may not.

Does it matter though? Youll be getting the best performance your CPU is capable of.

 

[Mohamed-Shams]

My PSU is a Dell 525 Watt in a Dell Workstation T3500 .. I installed a GALAXY GTX 680 SOC 2GB and the all I had was a blank screen and gpu fans very loud .. This PSU only has one 6-pin power connector and the gpu has two 8-pin power connectors .. So we connected the gpu with one 8-pin which came with it and the 6-pin connector which the psu has and the pc didn't post .. So we opened the PSU and took a two ground wires from the black ground wire so we could have the missing 2 ground wires to turn our 6-pin connectors to a 8-pin one .. So now we have now 2 x 8-pin power connectors then we turned on pc and we have the same result .. spinning gpu fas with a blank screen .. we unplugged the two 8-pin connectors to hear a beeb sound but we didn't !! The pc is running well with a two other cards one of them is a GTX 960 without any problem .. Any help ?