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Profile: stranger
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I have a 4800 X2 939 socket proc running at 3 GHZ will it bottleneck a 2900XT I have been thinking of upgrading from my x1900XT 512.. I don't want to buy another proc until the AMD quad's arrive ... And anybody interested in buying my X1900XT 512 make me a offer at Dc_Dave78@Hotmail.com... any feedback on the matter is appreciated....
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Will the 2900XT run at full potential? Probably not.
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So is there any advantage to moving to the 2900XT at this point other than it will play DX10 games which are not available yet... |
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Bottleneck? Yeah, I would say so.. But I would still go for it... some would argue that the 8800 would be a better buy, but thats not what this thread is about, is it? So yeah, you will bottleneck.. but you will still see a gain.. Looking forward to DX10, but IMO.. why upgrade from the beast that can play just about anything on MAX/HIGH, when there are no DX10 games... I mean, why not just wait and get it for cheaper or get something better for the same $$, I see no downside to waiting with that x1900XT 512.. W/e that just my opinion. Whatever floats your boat man.. Good luck! |
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I'd wait for Crysis or any other decent D10 game. By that time the card will be cheaper, and your XT is fine for now |
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You don't understand how a CPU bottleneck works, do you? Even if the HD 2900XT is being bottlenecked, it'll still outperform the X1900XT by a fair margin. |
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Go ahead and wait several months until M$ releases DX10 for XP after slow sales of DX10 games due to Vista being a crappy game platform force them to do this action(I had to reinstall battlefield 2 under XP, cause it ran like crap in vista, i have 2G of ram mind you). Or wait for the 65nm shrink. I personally have decided to just buy the mainstream card of each generation when it comes out, though i think this time around im just gonna go ahead and buy top of the line of previous gen. But im just a highschool student with no capital income. |
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Thats good stuff... DX10 + Xp = More money to spend on a vid card instead of vista.. or to save.. |
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CPU bottleneck usually occurs at low resolutions where your frame rates are so high you can't even tell theres a bottleneck (unless you plot a graph).
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