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Im currently at the end of the road in upgrading my 939 mobo. Im looking into getting a 8800gtx as soon as the price drops in november. Will a amd64x2 4400+ be good enough to work with a 8800gtx? or will it be bottlenecked to hell?? thanks


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i think it shall be fine , x2 4400 is a very good processor still


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It'll be fine, from most of the benchmarks on legion hardware you're only talking a very small % gain in FPS at most resolutions, it'll still be a very good combo for some time to come;

http://www.legionhardware.com/docu [...] id=672&p=9

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alright cool. thanks

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I disagree. From articles I've read it looks like CPU is a huge bottleneck for the 8800 series. You need a very fast processor to unlock the 8800s full potential. It depends on what you are doing I guess too. What VGA card are you running now? If it's anything greater than a 7800 I'd change CPU architecture first. You'll get the most bang for the buck- performance wise.

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Don't listen to Stevie you are fine.

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tbiggums wrote :

Don't listen to Stevie you are fine.


Ok Mr. Biggums, if that is your real name... ;) You may want to read this article straight from this website before you post again. http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/1 [...] stest_cpu/

 

EDIT: Pay close attention to the author's final thoughts...

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Yes, his CPU will bottleneck the 8800GTX, but it won't be that severe. I would be more concerned if he was trying to pair it with a P4 or an Athlon 64. Will your performance be held back? Yes by a couple of frames, but not like 10-20.

You could also pop an Opteron in the 939 for like 200 bucks, but I don't know how much better they are compared to the X2 4400+.


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steviep831,

It really depends on a few things when making this kind of decision. What game will he be playing? At what resolutions will he be playing them? What settings will he normally use? Really the only game that could go from unplayable to playable by switching to Core 2 is Flight Sim X. There are some games that perform identically with a GTX @ 1600X1200 on a X2 6000 and a X6800. His cpu will be fine with an 8800gtx, he doesn't need to upgrade his cpu just yet.


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+1 It will be fine with 4400x2.

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that's "one for the dagger" for me (props to those who know where i got that from) i have a x2 3600+ (OC'ed to 2.2 which i believe are stock 4400+ settings) and i only see maybe a 4-5 fps difference than my friends 6600 in CS:S on max settings.

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Sorry if I came off disrespectful stevie, it's just that the article you posted has been discussed to hell and back. The general consensus on the forums is that the fps gain from a super high end cpu paired with an 8800 vs. a mid-high end cpu is minimal. Hell, lots of games don't even support dual core cpu's not to mention quad core cpu's. Also the drivers for the 8800's have changed a bit since Nov. 2006

 

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A 4400 x2 is a great processor to match with a 8800gtx. Even at high resolutions, the difference between a 4400+ and an e6700 matched with a 8800gtx is only 2 frames benchmarking in Fear.
The e6700 hits about 73fps, and the 4400+ hits about 71fps.
Grab an 8800gtx and you won't be sorry.

Some poor souls think that unless you have the latest greatest most top of the line processor, everything else is just crap. It simply is not true anymore. Even the lowly AMD x2's still have plenty of horsepower to satisfy the vast majority.

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A bit off-topic, what kind of PSU do you have right now? Also, is your case big enough for an 8800 GTX? We're not talking about a Dell or HP here, are we? My Dad has an HP X2 5000+ with integrated graphics and both his PSu and his case prevent upgrading to an 8800 GTX.

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aevm wrote :

A bit off-topic, what kind of PSU do you have right now?



You know, I was going to ask that before and didn't. That's usually the first thing I ask.

@OP: What aevm said.


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