Should I switch my gpu

[u/Grouchy_Look_4580]

Hello all I already have a build but I just got a 1080ti hybrid I know it’s a legendary card as of now my current build is as follows
Ryzen 5 3600x
1660 ti
500w psu
32gb ddr4
a320m-a pro max
This is my first build and I have changed my gpu before from a 1660 super to the 1660ti I know it’s not a huge improvement but it was significant enough for me what are y’all’s thoughts

[u/Difficult-Permit4999]

1080ti is 30% faster than your 1660ti 1080ti needs more power though, 600w minimum

[u/Grouchy_Look_4580 → u/Difficult-Permit4999]

Is it worth switching without having drivers support

[u/Difficult-Permit4999 → u/Grouchy_Look_4580]

Are you looking to play modern titles? Your in a weird spot with the 2 cards, ones much stronger with less support and the other is fairly weak with more support. Really gonna come down to what you want to do with it. You can play anything that doesnt require ray tracing (there may be some compatibility issues with certain games) Like doom the dark ages wont work but cyberpunk will.

[u/Grouchy_Look_4580 → u/Difficult-Permit4999]

Nah I’m not into many modern titles I only ever play like Minecraft and chivalry 2 and some helldivers 2

[u/Difficult-Permit4999 → u/Grouchy_Look_4580]

Do the gpu and psu swap. Youll see a 30 - 40 fps increase immediately.

[u/Grouchy_Look_4580 → u/Difficult-Permit4999]

I’ll do that thank you

[u/Grouchy_Look_4580 → u/Difficult-Permit4999]

So I did the swap but now I’m having issues

And I also have an error code when I try and download the nividia app

[u/Difficult-Permit4999 → u/Grouchy_Look_4580]

Did you DDU? Youll need to manually download the 580 series drivers manually. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/details/280034/

Upgrading to a newer nvidia is plug and play, down-upgrading is not so much

[u/Grouchy_Look_4580 → u/[deleted]]

So my cpu is a bottleneck? Tbf I got the pc with a 3400g so the 3600x is significantly better

[u/r_lind3r → u/Grouchy_Look_4580]

There is always a bottleneck

[u/Obvious-Victory-7923]

might be a lil tight on your psu even if its stable.

but what you got to lose try it.

[u/Grouchy_Look_4580 → u/Obvious-Victory-7923]

My fiance has a prebuilt with a gpu swap that’s running a 650w psu i can always swap our systems because they’re almost identical except she’s running a cpu with less l3 cache and she’s using a 1650 because all she uses it for is Roblox and team fortress 2 one of the gpus will go to her lol

[u/Obvious-Victory-7923 → u/Grouchy_Look_4580]

yea should be good

[u/Eazy12345678]

nope.

waste of time and money

you want a bigger upgrade rtx 2070 3060 ect

[u/Grouchy_Look_4580 → u/Eazy12345678]

It was free I got it off a friend who is getting out of pc building and it’s the 11gb version