what's the bottleneck in this system?

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Sgt.Corleone

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on my second pc i have a= intel celeron d @2.53, 1gig of corsair pc3200, and a ati 9600xt.where is the bottleneck? :confused:
 
Hmmm...you're pretty well balanced, but an easy way to tell if you are CPU limited would be to overclock that Celeron a little. If you get noticeably better performance then you have your answer. If you don't, you have your answer.

You didn't mention your type and speed of hard drive either.
 
Sgt.Corleone said:
on my second pc i have a= intel celeron d @2.53, 1gig of corsair pc3200, and a ati 9600xt.where is the bottleneck? :confused:
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Probably the Celery, but your system is pretty "ballanced" really. IIRC the Celery D doesn't suck that hard compared to old Celerys, so that's like maybe a P4 2.0/9600 XT combo. I've got a friend with a P4 1.5 and a 9600 Pro, and they are pretty CPU-bottlenecked, so I'd guess you really aren't that unballanced either way.
 
Overclock the Celeron and buy a 6600 GT. You'll be happy with the performance increase if you play modern games.
 
It's not really unbalanced, but obviously it's not a high performance machine. So I wouldn't expect huge performance. I wouldn't expect stellar performance. You can get yourself some very decent performance with OC'ing your CPU and video card.
 
Sgt.Corleone said:
in gaming mostly.but aquamark03 score is 29,343.
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http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041004/vga_charts-04.html#aquamark_3

A P4 3.2E with the same video card is only scoring 2,000 points more than you are. So you really don't have a serious bottleneck either way. With a faster CPU, the 9600 XT would be the main limiting factor. With a faster video card, you might gain more performance, but the CPU would become the limiting factor. With a 9800 Pro, overclocking from 2.4 to 3.2 produced BIG improvement gains on a friend's system (like 39,000 to 46,000 on AQ3), and your Celeron D is closer to a P4 2.0 IIRC.
 
i've been thinking of upgrading the cpu to a p4 3.0 when i get back from mexico. :cool:thanks
 
Sir-Fragalot said:
It's not really unbalanced, but obviously it's not a high performance machine. So I wouldn't expect huge performance. I wouldn't expect stellar performance. You can get yourself some very decent performance with OC'ing your CPU and video card.
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Another good suggestion. My 9600XT overclocks like a dream. I was running it at 576 core and over 700 DDR until I upgraded. Now it's in one of the family machines so I'm running it @stock.
 
Something to bear in mind, though, is that the 9600 XT + a faster CPU would probably give you a noticeably better "real world" gaming experience, since your minimum FPS in games would often be higher, even though the AQ3 score might not go up so much.
 
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