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I am currently building a new PC so I'm looking to give away my previous self build from 2011'ish to the kids. What I was wondering is would a modern graphics card, say something like a GTX 1660Ti be suitable for a GPU upgrade. I see from the spec that it still supports PCIe v3.

Will the old CPU & Memory bottleneck the GTX 1660Ti significantly? If I decide to refresh the custom look would a decent overclock help?

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  • CPU : Core i7-2700K

  • Motherboard : Asus Rampage Gene IV (PCIe 3)

  • Memory : 16GB DDR3

  • GPU : GTX 580

  • Storage : SSD & HDD

  • PSU : Corsair HX1050

  • Custom Water cooling loop (CPU & GPU) - Needs some work.

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Personally I am using an i5-4460 (similar to your 2700k in performance I believe) with a 6 GB GTX 1060 and have not noticed any issues playing Far Cry 5 (which is about the only recent AAA I played) or any other games on a 2560x1080 screen. The only game which forced me to fiddle with graphics settings was GTA V. I have been forced to enable FPS capping in Divinity: Original Sin 2 due to alt-tab issues.

You might notice issues with a higher resolution display.

The only time I noticed a real CPU bottleneck was when rendering 3D scenes using CUDA in Blender Cycles.

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  • @PhilMurray you're welcome. Do note that Vulkan and DX12 make CPU performance less relevant as they support multithreading, unlike earlier DirectX and OpenGL
    – jaskij
    May 9, 2019 at 14:38
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recent member and new as well, but reading about the GTX 1660 Ti, it looks to pretty compatible with most new motherboards, the GTX 1660 Ti uses a single PCIe 3.0 slot at x8 or x16 depending on your system (the longer slots if you're wondering). You can Use AMD and Intel so the difference is not noticeable. I am building a new system and look forward to sharing more information

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  • Hi @Olabisi. Thanks for the response but the question was more around will the older i7 2700K processor bottleneck the GTX 1660Ti. From what I can see the GPU is compatible with the motherboard but not sure if it's worth the upgrade.
    – Phil Murray
    May 8, 2019 at 12:36
  • I apology, I was so broad with my answer.
    – Olabisi Ridges
    May 9, 2019 at 14:27

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