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good vis card for my cpu?

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DizzySHK

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i am upgrading to p4 3.2ghz with 1gb ddr400 ram.

what would be an ideal pci-express ati vid card for my cpu? ;)
 
apHytHiaTe said:
Uh.... maybe that's a little bit of overkill.
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Overkill? Depends on what he wants to play and what resolution he wants to play it... :rolleyes:
 
Well, let me just throw this out there: anyone who says his CPU will "bottleneck" the card is dead wrong...

Just anticipating something like that happening considering what people have said about P4s in the past...
 
hmmm that cpu will bottleneck, forget reveiws im going from experiance, and they dont perform near as good with games, they run hotter as well as the fact they use more electricity, imo anyone who gets those processors are rebels without a cuase.
 
right, i did not want to bottleneck the cpu and waste money on a card that i won' t be able to fully utilize
 
Shinryu said:
hmmm that cpu will bottleneck, forget reveiws im going from experiance, and they dont perform near as good with games, they run hotter as well as the fact they use more electricity, imo anyone who gets those processors are rebels without a cuase.
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Wow, that's a lot to say. You know... a 533 MHz FSB Celeron might not be able to handle it. Saying a 3.2 GHz P4 won't though is lunacy... my 3.0 GHz P4 never bottlenecked my X850XT PE. I get CPU scores in 3dMark05 + 3dMark06 in line with an AMD 64 3200+ (would you say that would be bottlenecking anything??? :rolleyes: ), and games run great. Bottlenecking from the CPU is easy to detect. In games, CPU bottlenecking usually occurs in brief 1/2 second stutters followed by smooth gameplay. It's easy to see the difference between a bad CPU and a bad video card. I used to have this problem playing King's Quest VIII (you know, the 3d one) back in the day on my 133 MHz P1 (system requirements were like 166 MHz, lol) - this only occured when in 3D accelerated mode though. And I've seen it happen in modern times on a friend's system with a 1.6 GHz Celeron. Processors perform lots of calculations in games, but games are much more GPU-intensive than CPU for obvious reasons. If your CPU can't handle a newer video card, you've got an ANCIENT CPU.

In fact, I'm really starting to get sick of the "bottleneck" word. It's thrown around so much lately it's starting to get aggravating. IMO people are jumping on the "performance CPU" bandwagon when really what you should be looking at are VIDEO CARDS first and foremost if you're talking about game performance. I mean, sure, the OP could upgrade his processor but game performance wouldn't be noticeably better, I don't think. He's got a pretty good CPU and he should just get the best video card out there if he can afford it.

Anyway... case in point... I must be a rebel without a cause then. :rolleyes: ;) I'm enjoying my nice, mid-range 1MB L2 cache processor that hasn't run past 50C in its life...
 
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