How much will my processor bottleneck a 9600gt?

You should be fine.

Completely side note --
That's not a dual core w/hyperthreading right? They don't make those yet (i7). That's one of those 800mhz fsb p4/s with hyperthreading, right? My old p4 w/hyperthreading showed as 2 cpu's in task bar because they hyperthreading is 2nd logical processor.
 
yea the 2CPU's thing is counting hyper threading ,also good to know it wont bottleneck badly :D.
 
It will be a slight bottleneck but at 1024x768 you arent going to be bothered by it.
So its not really an issue unless you intend on clocking the gfx card to get higher performance
With your current CPU, clocking the gfx card will make very little difference to 3D performance.
 
Nenu said:
It will be a slight bottleneck but at 1024x768 you arent going to be bothered by it.
So its not really an issue unless you intend on clocking the gfx card to get higher performance
With your current CPU, clocking the gfx card will make very little difference to 3D performance.
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cool nope not planing on overclocking.


thanks for your comments guys!:D now i can be happy when i get the card.
 
Actually, there's going to be a significant bottleneck due to the CPU and memory, but you probably won't notice it at 1024x768 (even at maximum settings).

Comparison between my current machine and a mate's - significant differences are CPU, motherboard and RAM.

9600GT, E6300 (2x 1.86GHz @1066MHz FSB), P965 mobo, 2x1024MB @667MHz, 3DMark06 1024x768, no AA/AF:
Total: 7361
SM 2.0: 3246
SM 3.0: 3867
CPU: 1491

9600GT, E6750 (2x 2.67GHz @1333MHz FSB), P35 mobo, 2x1024MB @800MHz, 3DMark06 1024x768, no AA/AF:
Total: 11310
SM 2.0: 5291
SM 3.0: 5407
CPU: 2414

Ignoring the CPU tests (and total), the tests that stress the graphics card are still much lower on my machine - the CPU and RAM can't feed the card quickly enough.

It's definitely worthwhile getting the 9600GT - depending on what you've currently got you might only get a 2x performance improvement right now, but when you upgrade the rest of the system that might change to 5x. In addition you'll be able to push up the image quality now with little to no effect on the performance.

Whilst I don't normally advocate future-proofing (cheaper overall to only buy what you need), in this case it's a no-brainer to get a much faster video card than you can fully use.

BTW, other cards you should consider include the HD3850 and 9600GSO - they should perform about the same as the 9600GT with your current setup, but cost a bit less. They won't scale quite as well though when you upgrade the rest of the system.
 
igottapae said:
yea the 2CPU's thing is counting hyper threading ,also good to know it wont bottleneck badly :D.
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an old single core P4? yikes you arent even going to get close to the potential gaming goodness of the 9600gt. that P4 is going to kill you especially in modern games. the strongest video card made will not make up for lack of cpu processing power.
 
as long as it can atleast play the COD4 it comes with ill be good till next month when i can buy a new motherboard processor and case since the mobo i have atm only supports P4 and the mobo is like a custom dell one lol.

im not expecting to be playing crysis on high with 30fps or anything just games like cod4 company of heroes WoW and some others on medium - high.
 
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