| disolitude said: Here is a vid showcasing limits of PCIe 2.0 vs 3.0...CallsignVega has some awesome videos and ing eneral knows his shit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0-xcxAvu54 As far as Steamroller, you may be right... I am going simply on what has been reported on thus far. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2208525/amd-sticks-with-socket-am3-for-steamroller |
He is memory limited, not bandwidth limited. I should know know, I run into the same limitations on my own system running at 7680x1440 despite using PCI-E 3.0 16x.
When you become memory limited, the GPU has to send more information down the PCI-E bus to access the information in System Ram/HDD, which is where he sees the impact.
As for Steamroller, The Inquirer is reporting on rumor, AMD has neither confirmed or denied it yet. - I would love to see AM3+ get Steamroller, both my AMD systems (1090T HTPC and the FX 8120) will get upgraded to it if it's compatible, I just wouldn't buy into a platform hoping for a future CPU release, you might walk away dissapointed like so many when they jumped onto AM3 hoping for world-changing Bulldozer. (And thus only having the ASUS Crosshair IV support the CPU's unofficially!)
That OCZ PSU is decent, lots of amps on the 12v rail, not a bad choice.
Also Op, welcome to the PC Gaming master race, may all your games be good ones!
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