Will I see a bottleneck?

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iSkylla

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I just bought an eVGA 8800GTS which I plan to put into my system right when it arrives. I need to know if I will get a bottleneck from my dated CPU. I still love it, but compared to what's out now, it's a bit dated. Here are my system Specs

DFI LanParty Ultra-D
AMD X2 3800+ (It was clocked at 2.7Ghz Stable)
Antec TPII 550W PSU
SB Audigy 2 ZS
eVGA 8800GTS
2GB G.Skill DDR400

Thanks.
 
Just a quick question, what do you mean it was clocked at 2.7Ghz stable? Is that what it is at now?

Other than that, good luck :D
 
onetwenty8k said:
I just bought an eVGA 8800GTS which I plan to put into my system right when it arrives. I need to know if I will get a bottleneck from my dated CPU. I still love it, but compared to what's out now, it's a bit dated. Here are my system Specs

DFI LanParty Ultra-D
AMD X2 3800+ (It was clocked at 2.7Ghz Stable)
Antec TPII 550W PSU
SB Audigy 2 ZS
eVGA 8800GTS
2GB G.Skill DDR400

Thanks.
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You'll be fine. when you do upgrade the mobo/cpu eventually, you can just take the 8800gts with you. I'm guess you're coming from a 7000 series. If it wasn't SLI'd 7900s, you'll notice a huge difference.
 
Black-Tom said:
Just a quick question, what do you mean it was clocked at 2.7Ghz stable? Is that what it is at now?

Other than that, good luck :D
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When I went away to college for the second semester, I reverted to default clocks to maximize hardware life when only my parents use it.

Tzzird said:
You'll be fine. when you do upgrade the mobo/cpu eventually, you can just take the 8800gts with you. I'm guess you're coming from a 7000 series. If it wasn't SLI'd 7900s, you'll notice a huge difference.
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Well you guessed wrong :p I am coming from an ATi X800XL. Still love that little red card but it's time to move on.
 
No, you won't. I went from an X2 +3800 to a Core 2 Duo E6600, and i didn't notice an improvement in gaming. With CPUs these days, you really wont notice bottlenecking. Your fine, don't worry, and just crank that res and detail up.
 
Was your X2 3800+ at stock speeds? I think just to be sure, I'll keep my CPU at a nice 2.6Ghz with a limited increase in VCore.
 
A member PM'd me this. I'm not sure why he didn't just post it here...anyways.


I have a 8800gts with my 4800 x2 and yes it bottlenecks pretty bad. My friend has a e6600 and a 8800gts and his system performs much better than mine. I tried overclocking to 2.8ghz and it raised my benchmarks up a litte, but nowhere near his stock e6600.
 
My Opty 170 and 8800GTS get killed in 3Dmark but in everything else I can't tell the difference. I've only very momentarily used a Core 2 machine but I don't think I could tell the diff in a blind test. I have every at stock for the summer right now too.
 
I honestly don't care about synthetic benchmarks. They mean nothing to me. All I care about is how it actually performs in games.
 
Anything over an X2 @ 2.6ghz won't help your in game performance much at all... If you're gaming at 1280x1024 or higher that is.
 
I will be running at 1280x1024 exclusively. I hope to max all the settings in oblivion + HDR and 2x AA in the Nvidia control panel.
 
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