I guess you have a choice to make here . It would be very bad for NQ to accommodate ancient hardware by removing ways to be more efficient through modern day technology .

It would be very bad for NQ to accommodate ancient hardware by removing ways to be more efficient through modern day technology. TDP alone is 1/3 of what your CPU required, memory and bus speed is way, way higher on the i3. Lastly, using a 1080ti with a CPU that provides not even half the bandwidth it needs to perform optimal seems also a bit odd, it's pretty much like driving a fast car with the handbrake on all the time. The i3 7100 in every way out performs the i7 970 with half the core count, it's not even close. Expecting technology and software development to continue to support outdated hardware is not reasonable. In technology terms you are using a quite outdated CPU. It would be like driving around a 1950s car in today's traffic, it may be able to keep up but to say it's a safe or suitable way to drive in 2019 is at best questionable. Your CPU is three generations behind the minimal requirements at least so it's not suitable to run DU. While you are obviously free to be of the opinion that minimal requirements purely relate to performance, the general accepted meaning is that you will need the specified hardware to run the application.

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