Rᴇᴀᴘᴇʀ ßᴏʏ Posted July 30, 2013 Report Share Posted July 30, 2013 Hey Guys... I think m gonna buy the NVIDIA GTX660 soon...!! Prob is my motherboard is a lil bit outdated.. It has LGA 1156 socket nd my CPU is i3 530 and PCI is 2.0x16 ... I've checked the net and found that these are nt gonna b an issue bt still.. what do u guys think.. ?? plz reply urgently... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnFlower Posted July 30, 2013 Report Share Posted July 30, 2013 New CPU if you plan to actually play games with it... The issue you are probably referring to is the GTX660 being a PCIe 3.0 card. PCIe 3.0 is backwards compatible with PCIe 2.0, so you don't really have to worry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rᴇᴀᴘᴇʀ ßᴏʏ Posted July 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2013 (edited) New CPU if you plan to actually play games with it...The issue you are probably referring to is the GTX660 being a PCIe 3.0 card. PCIe 3.0 is backwards compatible with PCIe 2.0, so you don't really have to worry.I really can't change my CPU right now.. Gonna have 2 cope with it.. so I can play games like Far Cry 3 and Crysis 3 with almost or no lag if i chng 2 GTX 660 right ?? Edited July 30, 2013 by Rᴇᴀᴘᴇʀ ßᴏʏ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowtheman Posted July 30, 2013 Report Share Posted July 30, 2013 Sounds okay. Changing your cpu later on sounds good though. Other wise your board should do just fine. Just note the vid card will be bottle necked until you update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnFlower Posted July 31, 2013 Report Share Posted July 31, 2013 You definitely wont be able to play them at max, but 1080p at somewhat lower settings should be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dae314 Posted July 31, 2013 Report Share Posted July 31, 2013 What is your power supply? Do you have enough peripheral connectors for it? Also, I'd recommend the GTX 760 if you can afford it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rᴇᴀᴘᴇʀ ßᴏʏ Posted July 31, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2013 You definitely wont be able to play them at max, but 1080p at somewhat lower settings should be fine. No need 2 worry abt the PSU ... I will take the 600W Thermaltake PSU and srry i can't afford the 760 right now... :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dae314 Posted August 1, 2013 Report Share Posted August 1, 2013 Just to give you some perspective, my laptop running a GTX460M ran BF3 at 1080p lowest settings possible with 30fps unless lots of action/fire happened on screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rᴇᴀᴘᴇʀ ßᴏʏ Posted August 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2013 Just to give you some perspective, my laptop running a GTX460M ran BF3 at 1080p lowest settings possible with 30fps unless lots of action/fire happened on screen. appreciate it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroPenguins Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 Comparing a mobile GPU is like comparing a V4 and V8 engines, as the mobile GPUs are designed to be more effiencient in terms of power usage. Mobile GPUs are heavily cutted down versions of their desktop GPU counterpart. For example the nvidia 660M GPU I have in my laptop probably performs the same as the 650 couterpart. Though I can Metro 2033 which is very GPU intensive on high with it on 1080p, of course no AA or extra filterings enabled. On another note, get a 760 if you can afford one, if not then a 660Ti. 660 is just slow imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord0Link Posted August 3, 2013 Report Share Posted August 3, 2013 (edited) I have a 2009 old build i7 870 2.93Ghz OC'ed to 4.00Ghz LGA 1156 CPU but the performance boost only helps with games like arma III / GTA4 maxed out and fully moddedXFX 7970 Ghz Ed. 3.0 GPU on a 2.0 PCI motherboardwith a 650W PSU and I can runFarcry 3 maxed out with aa disabled @70/90 FPS @1920x1080Battlefield 3 maxed out @ 60/80 FPS @1920x1080 Edited August 4, 2013 by Lord0Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wzrd Posted August 5, 2013 Report Share Posted August 5, 2013 The GTX 660 will be a huge upgrade. Everyone is right about your i3 being the bottleneck, but... one step at a time, ya know. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rᴇᴀᴘᴇʀ ßᴏʏ Posted August 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2013 The GTX 660 will be a huge upgrade. Everyone is right about your i3 being the bottleneck, but... one step at a time, ya know. Already bought it..! although MY CPU is not being bottle-necked vry much... I cn play Cry 3 smoothly... later on m planning 2 buy the AMD FX processor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r3dc311 Posted September 12, 2013 Report Share Posted September 12, 2013 the 660 is a great card, i had one for about 6 months before switching over to AMD so i could mine bitcoins. I agree with the other posters though, your proccessor could probably use an upgrade to an i5 at least. The i5 will do you very well, currently running an i5 3570k in my rig. Havent had any problems in any area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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