I shouldn't really just browse Ebay.. New video card won

That is a nice price on the triple fan 1070. No surprise it fit into your case, and that the Dell PSU powers it. PCIe connector has it's own 18-amp rail. Plus the other one ran your rx580 which is a more power hungry GPU. Thought about getting a 1070 for my own T3500 but could not stomach price of a new card. One that would be somewhat bottlenecked by the older X58 platform.

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The W3680 is a 32nm Westmere by the way. Not a 45nm Nehalem. Can be confusing since Intel went back to the "W" designation for the later single QPI Westmeres destined for workstations.
 
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horrorshow said:
Figured I'd run this as well for my own amusement:

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"Everybody wave to the bottleneck" ;)

(Nehalem & Sata2 FTW!)
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Bye-bye bottleneck! :cool:

(sorry for the necro, but come on....heh)
 
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LOL so right. I was actually leaning towards Radeon 7. But fricking browsing today some dude was selling ROG Strix 2080 for 700, he has like 10+ available. Hopefully someone didn't hack his account he did have 311 (100% feedback). Not worried about the money since I charged it to my CC. I had 50 ebay bucks and ended up being 650 out the door for brand new sealed box. These once clock close to 2100 out of the box and have a higher power limit.

So you are right if I wasn't just browsing eBay today I would not have bought it. I had bought a Zotac earlier but it had random black screen flash, where it would time go black for a second and come back randomly. Zotac was open box though and didn't allow 125% power limit.
 
Maddness said:
Damn that's a good price. That card is over 1k US here.
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Yea. I honestly wanna give my money to AMD but they will get that for zen 2 for sure lol. If this card doesn't give me any issues will be keeping it and giving my money to AMD next round. I honestly didn't wanna spend the 850 retail. Since most cards are power limited I wanted one that can be pushed to its limits and had a higher power limit. Zotac card only did about 111% more power. I think it was a steal for 650 or even 700 for that matter. Since these go for like 850+ tax retail.

I actually read a review on newegg for one of these cards. Someone left a one star review because the card was hitting 2100mhz on the core when it was suppose to be 1890mhz boost in OC mode. ROFL. I was like is this dude really bitching about card being 200mhz faster in OC mode? Can't believe he left a 1 star review because of that.
 
What do you guys think of running a Vega 64 in a T3600 with the 635W psu?

Dell specs 300w max draw for a GPU but I've read reviews where the 64 has gone well North of that....

I suppose I could just get a 1080 but I like AMD too and have a freesync monitor.
 
Well I dropped a RTX 2070 PNY OC in the ole T3600 and it's working out pretty well.

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XoR_ said:
Nehalem CPUs are fine for these GPU's
GPU is always limiting factor, especially if you run highest detail modes.
I would not worry too much about it.
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Quite the blanket statement considering the single biggest difference here is going to be "what games do you play?" Nehalem will absolutely cripple your performance in games like BF1/BF5/BO4 as well as plenty others regardless of what GPU you have paired with it.
 
GTX 1070s are great cards. I'm still waiting for a GPU that is worth replacing it with, even at 1440p.
 
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RamonGTP said:
Quite the blanket statement considering the single biggest difference here is going to be "what games do you play?" Nehalem will absolutely cripple your performance in games like BF1/BF5/BO4 as well as plenty others regardless of what GPU you have paired with it.
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It's more then that though. I mean, if I were the OP I'd just want a more modern chipset that supports USB 3.1, SATA 6, NVMe, etc. That's mostly why I upgraded from my Sandy Bridge hardware.
 
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