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Bugz   01-07-2007 at 03:52:24 AM

What's up Guys.

I have an older system which carries a P4 2.8 400MHz cpu. The memory is rambus ( Sucks, I know ) PC800 and it also came with a PNY Geforce 4 Ti4600 AGP Graphics Card.
Question: Will upgrading the video card to a 6600GT / 6800GT be an over kill and make the cpu and memory a bottle neck, or give some added performance. Also The power supply is able to support the newer cards, and changing the motherboard etc. is not an option.

Thank.

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Assman   01-07-2007 at 03:56:49 AM
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i think you should save up some $$$ and build a new system, your's is kind of outdated and spending money on vga upgrade is just useless. and yes it will most probably be bottlenecked

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Bugz   01-07-2007 at 04:07:56 AM
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I already have a newer system. I just wanted to make this one run a little better.

Thanks.

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Valtiel   01-07-2007 at 04:20:18 AM
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I put a 6800GS AGP into my system with a Prescott 3.0E and unlocked the pipes which made it nearly (if not exactly) like the 6800GT. There was a huge difference in performance over my old FX5200. Of course that's an FX5200 so of course there would be a huge difference :lol:. I'm not sure if anything is bottlenecking it but I would like to know how to find out if that's possible.

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Datman   01-07-2007 at 04:44:56 AM
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I would be looking at a 7600GT for a system like this.

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Bugz   01-07-2007 at 05:01:22 AM
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Wouldn't that be an over kill?

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Assman   01-07-2007 at 05:05:51 AM
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yes it would

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Datman   01-07-2007 at 01:47:20 PM
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Not really, the 7600GT gives a bit more future out of your current system, similar performance to the 6800GT.
The 7600GS is a lesser option also.

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kaotao   01-07-2007 at 06:37:01 PM
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Those GPUs will not be bottlenecked by the rest of your system.

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Cleeve   01-08-2007 at 04:49:51 PM
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A 7600 GT is a great companion to a P4 2.8 Ghz guys.

A 2.8 Ghz P4 isn't that bad at all...

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Bugz   01-09-2007 at 01:28:30 PM
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Remember the FBS is 400MHz

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parge   01-09-2007 at 01:41:29 PM
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Quote :

Those GPUs will not be bottlenecked by the rest of your system.



No, they wont, this guy is totally right

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Cleeve   01-09-2007 at 09:19:59 PM
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Remember the FBS is 400MHz



Doesn't make a difference.

2.8 Ghz P4 is still a decent platform.

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