Pemalite said:
Frequency said:
With that CPU you should be alright with the cards you have now, you could slap a higher performance card in but the price of a card that outperforms the ones you have isnt worth the additional performance without upgrading the supporting infrastructure, prebuilt with i7 920 would suggest at the time your pc was sold it was fairly decent spec, however such is the nature of prebuilt systems they rarely have good motherboards, so you most likely have a pcie-2.0 motherboard and relatively low spec DDR3, if you were upgrading the whole system it would be a lot more effective in boosting performance.
however the games you are having trouble with need large blocks of video memory and video bandwidth which your current board isnt going to support very well, while you will see a performance increase over your current cards, it isnt the sort of performance jump that is worth spending that sort of cash on - my suggestion is grab a PS4 at some point over the next 7 months and upgrade your PC late next year when component costs for the current new cards have dropped due to being replaced by newer models.
This suggestion comes from someone running a i7 3970X, 32gb of ram and two GTX Titans.
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PCI-E 2.0 won't be holding him back even if he wen't Dual-Titans.
See here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7089/geforce-gtx-titan-twoway-sli-scaling-pcie-2-vs-pcie-3
Biggest difference is in Shogun 2 with 5fps, but that's a small drop in the bucket considering it's running in excess of 100fps. :P
Couple of percentage points, that's it, tops.
Compute is an entirely different ball game however... It loves PCI-E bandwidth.
The i7 920 isn't much of a slouch even today, although, if you pre-built it (I.E: Decent motherboard), you could have easily added another 800mhz~ give or take which would have made it last several years longer.
Personally, I think a Radeon 7950 would be a perfect fit for that system as it is now, they can be found for roughly $200 USD, would be plenty for 1080P for the immediate future, if you wanted later you could pair the 7950/7970 up with a Radeon R9 280 when they're cheap.
If you play your cards right and avoid the early adopter tax and save a few pennies you could still get a Playstation 4 to go with it.
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When you say pair up with an R9 280 do you mean in a crossfire setup? Would I run into other bottlenecks at that point due to my other aging parts? Also I seemed to have a ton of issues with Crossfire (may games not working correctly with it) does crossfiring different cards like that cause any more of an issue?
