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Ok so I kind of have a weird question. This weekend I was going through some old boxes and I came across an old Geforce 5900. I have an old Compaq computer that my dad use to use with a Pentium 4 Prescott running at 2.4 GHZ. I've been wanting to build a throwback computer for old computer games like COD 1, COD UO, early Battlefield titles and other old games. So my question is will a Pentium 4 bottleneck a Geforce 5900? I mean the 5900 was for it's time the best and the Pentium 4 is crappy.
 
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The Athlon 64 3400+ was a Top-Tier CPU in 2004 and among the best CPUs of that time, I don't think that it would bottleneck a 2003 GPU such as the Geforce 5900.

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Probably, but you could always do some research and upgrade the processor to the fastest the motherboard will handle. I have an old P4 3.2HT system with a Radeon 3850 AGP and the CPU was always the obvious bottleneck. I did the research and was able to upgrade to a Pentium D 945 3.4 dual core and I'm pretty sure it and the RAM are still bottlenecking, but the system runs pretty well (considerably better than before) for what it is and the upgrade cost me all of $7.25 for the processor on eBay.
 
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I wasn't going to do this but since I happen to come across the video card and have the old Compaq just sitting their I figured I would throw everything together and and build a Frankenstein computer and it would pretty much all be free unless I upgraded the CPU. I'll have to find the model number of the Compaq and look up their CPU support list. As we know though OEM's are usually pretty bad for CPU upgrade support.
 
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True, many times you are limited to whatever the best CPU they offered at the time. However, I have run into a few OEM machines that while HP only offered certain CPU's the motherboard itself had a broader list, but those were machines from like 2008. Only way to know would be to research that motherboard.

My machines biggest issue, as from what I can tell, is the RAM. Single channel 2gb max and running Vista 64-bit. Running a USB drive and Readyboost helps a little, but Vista is still unwieldy.
 
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Looked into it and I couldn't really find a CPU support list for the computer but I'm pretty sure I had looked into a couple years ago and the list wasn't anything great. That's probably why I never went and did this back when I wanted to a few years ago.
 
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I upgraded a DELL with a Pentium D 945 3.4 dual core that cost me like $6 on eBay. It wasn't even worth the $6. I wouldn't even bother.
 
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Actually let me ask you this and I think I know the answer but I figured I would ask just to make sure. I may be able to get my hands on an old Athlon 64 build with an AMD Athlon 64 3400+. I'm guessing this would be a lot better than the P4 but is the 3400+ model good enough to handle a 5900?
 
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Hard to say but it would be a better match up. Those CPU's were much better than the P4's, IIRC.
 
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The Athlon 64 3400+ was a Top-Tier CPU in 2004 and among the best CPUs of that time, I don't think that it would bottleneck a 2003 GPU such as the Geforce 5900.

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