Man... 8800GTS bottleneck?

[k-]

I jus orderd E6600 /w 8800GTS
and found out that they need a good CPU to prevent bottleneck

I may OC a little w/ Corsair 2gb 6400, air, P5B if i can or need.

so it that much of a bottle neck?

 

[MAK-Daddy32]

Your 8800 E6600 pairing should make you very happy. Yes, at some resolutions the 8800 cards are bottlenecked by the CPU, but the performance is still better than anything else out right now.

I don't see the difference in someone paying for an x6800 and then getting a 7950 GT, except in reverse. Here gaming performance is "bottlenecked" by the card.

There is always a limiting factor (or bottleneck) why does everyone seem to think that it's always better for the limiting factor to be the GPU?

 

[k-]

Id rather have my CPU bottlenecked
'cuz CPU has to do w/ everything like loading stuff, installing, surfing.. etc

While GFX card only has a dominant factor in gaming, photoshop(maybe)?

heh

Thankz for ur input.

 

[MAK-Daddy32]

I'm confused by this. The CPU will only bottleneck the GPU in games. Having the video card "bottlenecked" by the CPU only means that in GAMES you could have higher FPS.

 

[MAK-Daddy32]

What I'm trying to say is that having your GPU "bottlenecked" by your CPU isn't going to have an impact on surfing, e-mail, spreadsheets, etc.

 

[k-]

yeh i probably said it wrong.

What i meant was
I might as well have a better CPU : decent GFX ratio than a better GFX : decent CPU.

Does that make sense? Sorry

Thnkzz

 

[outlw6669]

I jus orderd E6600 /w 8800GTS
and found out that they need a good CPU to prevent bottleneck

I may OC a little w/ Corsair 2gb 6400, air, P5B if i can or need.

so it that much of a bottle neck?

Have the same combo, works great.

I have overclocked bouth, and an oc'ed gpu still gives me more performance gains than just overclocking the cpu.

Guess what I mean is don't worry about your E6600 bottlenecking your 8800GTS.

You wll still get performance increases if you only overclock your gpu.

 

[chuckshissle]

You should be fine with that man. If not I'll trade your 8800GTS for with 7800GTX, for sure it's not a bottle neck on your E6600. I'll even include a BFG T-shirt and free shipping.

Get a decent cooler like Tuniq Tower 120 or Thermalright Ultra 120 and do some overclocking.

 

[GazMcfc]

what if i was to buy an e6300 and a 8800GTS would this still be ok? thanx

 

[chuckshissle]

Yes, it would be fine and you can do some overclocking on that E6300, so you're good on that one. Hell, I can even run 8800GTX SLI on my 840 for all I care. It would be way better than my 7800GTX SLI regarding of the cpu.

 

[NotAPimecone]

We really, really need a sticky refuting the conclusion of the "8800 needs the fastest CPU" article. Then again, no one reads stickies anyway.

 

[LordBelial]

man im using a 8800gtx with a 4000+..im sure theres a bottleneck, but guess what, im playing at 1680x1050 resolution and i get max frames in every game, people make bottlenecking sound like it brings you down so much the card is only worth 200 bucks or something...its fine no bottlenecking.

 

[MAK-Daddy32]

Ok, that makes more sense, but trust me on this one...

The E6600 is a smoking fast CPU and there's not way it's going to be to slow in e-mail, installations, office apps. etc. Your hdd will be a big bottleneck on installations and working with large files, but what can you do?

I think the article about the 8800 "NEEDING" the fastest CPU is misleading in that it doesn't "NEED" an x6800 (or better) to outperform every other video card. Rarely (if ever) have we seen a video card that can truly keep up with latest and greatest CPU's so we're just used to thinking that the GPU should be the weaker links (in games). It's not like you're pairing a $400 card with a P3 and not seeing ANY benifits over the cheaper GPUs. it's just that the 8800's will see EVEN MORE gains with faster processors. THIS IS A GOOD THING.

Should get my 8800 GTS from newegg tomorrow . I'll be pairing it with an E6400 and I'm not worried. Guarentee you it will out perform my little 6800 vanilla card.

 

[quantumsheep]

what if i was to buy an e6300 and a 8800GTS would this still be ok? thanx

Totally. Don't worry.

Any X2 or C2D is fine.

Wise words there.

 

[baddog1]

what if i was to buy an e6300 and a 8800GTS would this still be ok? thanx

That'll hardly even kick serious flaming ass. Who could possibly be satisfied with a couple hundred f's per s?

 

[MAK-Daddy32]

That'll hardly even kick serious flaming ass. Who could possibly be satisfied with a couple hundred f's per s?[/quote]

Amen - It's gotta suck to be "bottlenecked" at or above the monitors refresh rate.

 

[k-]

Great.

Thankz all.