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"Bobby" <bobby@europe.com> wrote in message
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> Doesn't it depend on the type of CPU as well?
Sure. But it's pretty obvious that any equivalent CPU will have similar
results...
> I'm sure that a Pentium 4 (Prescott) above 2.5Ghz would feed the card OK
but
> I don't think that a Celeron (at any speed) would.
At that point, I don't think either the CPU or the video card are the
bottleneck; cache+memory bus bandwidth+latencies play a deciding role in the
final picture too. The nicest thing about Celerons (prolly the only one!) is
they can be overclocked a bit. And the Celeron Ds aren't too bad, and
they're cheap, and they overclock well...
> And what about Athlon 64-bit CPUs? These are clocked relatively low (the
> 3000+ model has a clock speed of 2.1Ghz IIRC) but I presume that these
would
> feed these cards?
Oh, sure! Very well, too...see above...
> > Bobby
>
> "Nerdillius Maximus" <nobody@nowhere.net> wrote in message
> news:c4Vqd.121558$5K2.104364@attbi_s03...
> >
> > "JLC" <j.jc@nospam.com> wrote in message
> > news:EaQqd.587142$mD.143392@attbi_s02...
> >>
> >> "tq96" <tq96@tq96.tq96> wrote in message
> >> news:Xns95B0CE77029F7tq96@127.0.0.1...
> >> >>> 6600 GT if you can find one.
> >> >>
> >> >> Probably so, although I would think a 2GHz CPU would be somewhat of
a
> >> >> limiting factor towards seeing either card at it's full potential.
> >> >
> >> > 9800pro is fairly old (1.5 years?) What was the average speed of an
> >> > enthusiast CPU back when the 9800pro was introduced to the market?
> >>
> >> If I recall correctly the 9800Pro is CPU bound tell it's paired with a
> >> 2.5GHz or higher CPU. I might be wrong about this, I just remember
> >> reading
> >> that a long time ago. JLC
> >
> > That sounds about right...
> >
> >
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