Geforce GTX 680 Bottleneck

[NavinS]

I have purchased a new Gigabyte GTX 680 graphics card recently. When I checked in the settings then this card was already clocked a bit and was running at 1150Mhz. I was wondering that if I am running i7 core then will there be a bottleneck in my system at stock clocks with this video card? Also, can anyone tell me how to check if the CPU that I am having is bottlenecking the full utilization of the graphics card? Thanks for any information.

[kiLLer]

Thats a pretty good graphics card for sure. And to answer your question, I dont think that you are going to get any kind of CPU bottleneck even with a lower end I7 core processor.

[ApPy10]

Incase, you have the I5-760 cpu then most certainly, the card will get bottleneck. One of my friend purchased a new GTX 660 and his i5-750 bottlenecked it badly. Since you have got an I7 core then you dont have to upgrade the CPU and any other components i think.

[David23]

I think that you need to get the I7 core to atleast 3.7ghz by overclocking it, so that you can utilize the full power of the graphics card. It can be easily done with these CPUs, especially if you have 1600Mhz ram. It will also not get that warm. However, you will need to use a good cooler to keep the CPU cool. Also, if there are 8gb of RAM, then it is more than enough.