i7-920 with 12 gb ram. 1080p 2016 AAA titles 60 fps with 1070 possible?

[Thope]

So, I am thinking of buying a 1070 GTX as I have few amazon gift cards lying around I want to neutralize. I don't want to invest in a new desktop as I am hoping for external graphics to become mainstream.

I have a 90" television I paid a buttload of money for when they came out. It's only 1080p so I want to ask if I can play 2016 AAA titles @ 60 fps at very high to ultra settings with a gtx 1070.

Last game I played was FC4 on oc'd gtx 970 and it ran fine.

i7-920 not overclocked but has upgraded cooling
12 gb ddr3 ram.
dell 435 mt motherboard.
800 watt seasonic psu.

 

[daxzy]

Definitely possible, depending on game.

If games are CPU bound... Looks like your Dell board doesn't support 6-core Gulftown CPU's, so if you wanted to upgrade, you could potentially pop in a Xeon W3580 (3.33 GHz) for about $40.

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3514/t/19664146

 

[RussianSensation]

I have a 90" television I paid a buttload of money for when they came out. It's only 1080p so I want to ask if I can play 2016 AAA titles @ 60 fps at very high to ultra settings with a gtx 1070.

Last game I played was FC4 on oc'd gtx 970 and it ran fine.

Don't waste your $. Major CPU bottleneck. Keep the GTX970, lower settings to High from Ultra in modern games, then upgrade the entire system when you have enough $. i7 920 already bottlenecks GTX970/R9 390 GPU class. Even at 4Ghz, i7 Nehalem is a serious bottleneck:

i7-960@4.0 vs i7-4790 (4.0) in 4 Games (R9 390)

You could always sell the entire PC and get Kaby Lake and Pascal refresh/Vega in 2017.