Ati 3850 bottlenecks

[ashleypursglove]

Im going to be building a new system when I get some money and when the next gen graphics cards come out and the new intel cpus are out.

Ive had my current system around 5 years and have an Pentium 4 3.2 with a 1gb of pc 3200 ram and an x850pro.

Im considering getting a hd3850 agp card as my current setup is starting to struggle.

My questions are:

Will any of my components bottleneck a 3850.

Is the performance gain from an x850pro worth £100ish

I should point out I dont play at a high res so if the advanatge of the 3850 is only seen at high res then it wont be worth it.

Ta

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

A P4 will definately slow that card down. The upgrade will be quite noticable non theless with that card, tho like I said itll slow it down. Itll be more noticable on lower res, but once again, at lower res, its more cpu dependent, which means more of a loss with that cpu

 

[jay2tall]

I've been in 2 discussions with people on here that had P4's and upgraded to the 3850 AGP. They were both Extremely happy with the upgrade. If you can't upgrade your current system, the 3850AGP is the best you will be able to do. I think it all depends on what games you play as well. Don't expect this to revive your PC past a whole year but expect it to play most games moderatly till the end of this year or early next year.

 

[blade85]

what both jay's said....

 

[godless]

I've been in 2 discussions with people on here that had P4's and upgraded to the 3850 AGP. They were both Extremely happy with the upgrade. If you can't upgrade your current system, the 3850AGP is the best you will be able to do. I think it all depends on what games you play as well. Don't expect this to revive your PC past a whole year but expect it to play most games moderatly till the end of this year or early next year.

^+1

 

[ashleypursglove]

Thanks for the input guys.

I think im just going to wait a few months and start from the ground up when the new range of GPUs come out.

Doesnt really make sense buying an overpriced AGP card when I could put the extra 100 on a better component.

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Good choice, by then the 4xxx series and the G2x0's will be here, plus your cpu problems simple wont exist. Try getting a Q/C2D that goes at least 2.4Ghz, and youll be very happy

 

[drmolerat]

im building a pc for my gf so i can free up mine and i got a barebone with amd 64 x2 4200 2 gigs of ddr2. my question is will a sapphire hd 3850 512 mb bottleneck the cpu

 

[shurass]

well let me tell you that probably bottleneck! because its like to have a pentium d at 3.73 ghz" so i would recommend you to buy a an amd 5000+ or a 5200+to go for the sure thing. you can find in amazon.com for about 65$ and you can rest assure that you're cpu its not going to bottleneck your graphics card.