Will a 6800 gs perform fully on my P4 2.8gz?

[grantberg]

My PC is a 4 year old P4 2.8gz, 1gig ram, 4x agp running on a 9700 pro.

I want to get another year of use out of this rig, basically to play FEAR and Morrowind IV. I want to upgrade to the 6800GS 256 Meg AGP. Would my system be adequate to support this?

Thanks,
Grant Berger

 

[GeneticWeapon]

Would my system be adequate to support this?

Not really, no(AGP 4X?) I would buy the 6800 anyways though, because you're always going to have a bottleneck somewhere.....it might as well be in the graphics card.

Think about what I just said...

 

[raven_87]

...I dont think it would be as big a bottleneck as we think. If you could unlock that GS and maybe push the frequency on your P4, might be a little more balanced system. But a new motherboard would sure be nice.

 

[teh_squaterer]

Would my system be adequate to support this?

Not really, no(AGP 4X?) I would buy the 6800 anyways though, because you're always going to have a bottleneck somewhere.....it might as well be in the graphics card.

Think about what I just said...

4x AGP is plenty of bandwidth for a graphics card. Really, increasing it beyond 8x will have virtually no effect. Yet for some reason we have already moved onto 16x bandwidth. His processor would be the bottleneck.

 

[grantberg]

But how much of a bottleneck?

Thanks for the replies.

-Grant

 

[grantberg]

Bought the PNY 6800 256mb AGP for 177 all included. I'll re post to share performance.

Any other thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Grant