Is my system bottlenecked by my CPU?

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TheMadHatterXxX

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I can only get 11857 on my setup on 3dmark 05....is this normal or low? I also notice that when i ran it first at stock settings on the cpu (2.2ghz) the green bars weren't at full on the SLI meter thingy, but when I oc'ed to 2.6 ghz, it still wasnt full but it did go up some....so is my cpu hindering it from working at full? when i had 2 6800gt sli'ed the bars would stay full all the time...
 
If it were bottlenecked, would you be willing to pay $700-$1000 for an FX processor? Probably not. I doubt you'd see much improvement anyway. Buy some games and play with your machine!
 
After having a look here it looks like your results are bang on target. Of course your performance will increase a little when you oc or purchase a faster processor, but it isn't really limited at this point.
 
monkeysauce said:
If it were bottlenecked, would you be willing to pay $700-$1000 for an FX processor? Probably not. I doubt you'd see much improvement anyway. Buy some games and play with your machine!
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I just want the pretty green bars to be filled.... :(
 
I didn't know anybody cared about CPU's anymore...I purchased my last processor well over two years ago and it's still kickin' ass. CPU's are a 90's thing. :p
 
... AMD 64 3700+... *Turns to look at the T-bred machine and while he's at it, gives it a nice hard kick.*
 
is that running at stock??? if so...im pretty sure ur damn bottlenecked :D
i dont believe any processor can truly be "not bottlenecked" especially when you are running SLi however i can tell you that OCing your cpu will give you a bit more fps
i went from a score of 8841 w/ my x2 at 2.0 to a score of 9342 w/ my x2 at 2.6
hope that helps :)
 
TheMadHatterXxX said:
I can only get 11857 on my setup on 3dmark 05....is this normal or low? I also notice that when i ran it first at stock settings on the cpu (2.2ghz) the green bars weren't at full on the SLI meter thingy, but when I oc'ed to 2.6 ghz, it still wasnt full but it did go up some....so is my cpu hindering it from working at full? when i had 2 6800gt sli'ed the bars would stay full all the time...
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If it were CPU bottlenecked it would have a huge increase in score when you went to 2.6 GHz from 2.2 Ghz.

The mere fact that your score did not change much from such a CPU overclock means your more video limited than CPU limited in that benchmark.
 
You may be bottlenecked in 3dmark05 running at it's extreme resolution of 1024*768 but you wont be bottlenecked in any games. If you really care about 3dmark05 then by all means upgrade.
 
omz said:
is that running at stock??? if so...im pretty sure ur damn bottlenecked :D
i dont believe any processor can truly be "not bottlenecked" especially when you are running SLi however i can tell you that OCing your cpu will give you a bit more fps
i went from a score of 8841 w/ my x2 at 2.0 to a score of 9342 w/ my x2 at 2.6
hope that helps :)
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Think about what you said...you oc'd your CPU 30% and got less than a 6% change in benchmark. In otherwords: The large change in cpu speed resulted in a small change in score. I think you would have gotten a bigger change in score by overclocking the vid card 30%.

This indicates video limited, not cpu limited.

Basically there is widespread confusion about CPU limited. The simple way to look at it:

When a huge change in CPU speed does not result in an appreciable change in video performance, it means the CPU is not the limiting factor.

Common sense folks.
 
Yeah, CPU bottlenecking rarely happens anymore nowadays. I know of a friend who games on a Celeron D, for crying out loud, but pairs it with an X700PRO and gets performance you would expect with that card.
 
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