Card Upgrade and Possible Bottleneck

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Hi, I'm thinking of replacing my current 7600GT SLI setup for a single 8800GTS. But I'm worried I may have a bottleneck because of it. I don't exactly understand what a bottleneck is, but from what I think, it means the card won't be fully utilized because of my slow CPU/RAM.

Would it be a good choice to upgrade on this current setup (as I don't have any money to upgrade anything else, maybe another gig of RAM sometime soon)?

And if I do get it on this current set up, would it be OK to assume that Crysis will run at High (or Ultra) setting at 1440x900 with 40+ FPS?
 
get another gig of ram, it will be worth it. you shouldnt get to bad of a bottleneck if any with your cpu.

From what ive heard and if you get the video card and not another gig, have fun trying to run it on all high. i think its a pretty demanding game.
 
forrehmmnd said:
get another gig of ram, it will be worth it. you shouldnt get to bad of a bottleneck if any with your cpu.

From what ive heard and if you get the video card and not another gig, have fun trying to run it on all high. i think its a pretty demanding game.
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Well most games I run, including Oblivion, I run on high, I don't get any stuttering except in BF2/2142, just lowish FPS, so I don't think I have RAM problems
 
Tylerdurdened said:
And if I do get it on this current set up, would it be OK to assume that Crysis will run at High (or Ultra) setting at 1440x900 with 40+ FPS?
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Noone knows, but honestly, I doubt any card on the market will run Crysis that well (excluding SLI). I expect 40-60FPS out of the next generation of DX10 cards to come out. I could very well be wrong though.
 
There is absolutely nothing wrong with your cpu. You are running faster than a stock FX-62 which is nothing to sneeze at. With your cpu at 2.86ghz you are as fast as a stock E6600 C2D which we all know is a great gaming chip.

I have my 4800+ 20mhz less than yours at 2.84ghz and it runs amazing with my X1900XTX. Mind you my GPU is faster than your 7600 so I would imagine an 8800 series card would do quite well with your cpu. Overclock the video card a bit and play with a higher resolution and high levels of AA/AF and the card will run just fine.
 
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