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Question

Would the GPU be slowed down by my CPU

Jul 30, 2013 3:15PM PDT

My Current Spec.

Mobo: Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3

CPU: Intel Core i5 750 @2.67GHz

Graphic Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

Memory: Kingston DDR3 1GB * 4

OS: Windows 7 Professional 32 bit

And now I am thinking of upgrading my video card to GTX 700 series. So would the GPU be limited by my i5 or even the mobo ('cause it's a P55)?

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Answer
Balancing act
Jul 31, 2013 1:25AM PDT

Your cpu is not bad but by today's standards for gaming is a little lacking.

At what point going up the gpu ladder will that cpu be the bottleneck?

I dunno.......may depend on the game your running.

Tell us you have 1333 ram.

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I may know this one.
Jul 31, 2013 1:57AM PDT

"Our tests demonstrate fairly little difference between a $225 LGA 1155 Core i5-2500K and a $1000 LGA 2011 Core i7-3960X, even when three-way graphics card configurations are involved. It turns out that memory bandwidth and PCIe throughput don't hold back the performance of existing Sandy Bridge-based machines. "
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-4.html

So with a single PCIe card it's going to be very hard to see this bottleneck in games.
Bob

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Agree....but
Jul 31, 2013 2:31AM PDT

The op has an I5-750.
That sort of changes the mix a little.

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Not by much.
Jul 31, 2013 6:03AM PDT

The note was for another model but with THREE WAY (that is 3 video cards.) They have one card so it would be tough to call out the CPU or chipset on this round.
Bob

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yup
Aug 1, 2013 12:56PM PDT

yes, it is 1333 ram

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Couple of test
Aug 1, 2013 11:56PM PDT

Open a command prompt.
Type>winsat mem<
You should be seeing 16>16.5GB/s
That will tell you if dual channel is functioning.

Use this tool.
http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/tmonitor.html
That will tell you if turbo is functioning.