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KGen




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PostPosted: Sun, 3rd Aug 2008 21:27    Post subject: Bottleneck
Hey guys,

Here's the deal - I am planning to upgrade the video card to 4870 soon and I've been thinking if my CPU is up to it :

ASUS P5B Intel P965 Chipset Socket 775
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 1.86GHz 2Mb
LEADTEK WinFast PX7900GS 256MB
Mushkin 2GB 1GBx2 Enhanced EM2-6400 DDR2-800
TAGAN 2FORCE TG530-U22 530Watt

Do you think I might get a bottleneck? Because for some reason or another 7900gs sucked monkey balls from the minute I bought it. Right now it's horrible, I get average of 30-40 fps at FlatOut Ultimate Carnage at 1024x768 with low preset. So it got me thinking, even with 7900gs being old crap and all that, maybe there is more to it than just gpu?

Thanks.
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gingerninjaaaaaa
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PostPosted: Sun, 3rd Aug 2008 22:01    Post subject:
People say you will but i have a amd dual core 4400x2 with an ati 4850 512mb card, if I'm being honest mine does bottleneck the card but i can still play everything maxed i.e grid at 1680x1050 plus many ore.
Looking at you're cpu you'll be fine but that's my opinion Smile
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Phluxed
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PostPosted: Sun, 3rd Aug 2008 23:05    Post subject:
its that video card for sure.

GS cards are super slow.
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KrAzY-KaMeL




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PostPosted: Mon, 4th Aug 2008 00:35    Post subject:
Yeah I think so. When I leave my E6300 @ stock vs OC'd to 2.8Ghz there is a significant performance difference. In games like GRID, where there are 10+ A.I. cars on screen at stock speeds I'd be dipping into the 30's but once I OC'd it smoothed things out a lot. Same with Crysis, I'd have issues with dipping framerates and stuttering when an explosion would go off and lots of physics calcs were going on. OC'ing helped that out.

BTW I have a 4850.
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LeoNatan
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PostPosted: Mon, 4th Aug 2008 00:40    Post subject:
E6300 really isn't a bottleneck IMO, plus you can overclock the shit out of it.
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snoop1050
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PostPosted: Mon, 4th Aug 2008 07:02    Post subject:
any cpu is a bottleneck for that card at that res Laughing
you wanna be atleast using 1600+ resolutions even with an e8600 @ 4ghz
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KrAzY-KaMeL




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PostPosted: Mon, 4th Aug 2008 09:45    Post subject:
From my personal experience it is. I wouldn't call it a "Bottleneck', but there is a drastic performance difference in many games between stock and OC'd on my E6300.
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KGen




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PostPosted: Tue, 5th Aug 2008 17:27    Post subject:
Well, I decided to try and overclock the cpu today, just to see if it will make any difference at FlatOut Ultimate Carnage at 1024x768 with low preset. Since I have only the stock cooler, I didn't do anything crazy - upped it from 1.8ghz to 2.4ghz just for one race. And no difference at all...so right now it seems like the gpu is the problem.

i7 6700k @ 4.4 GHZ, 2060s, 16 GB RAM, SSD, Windows 10x64.
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