Hy .... I was wonderig if Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 would be bottleneck for nVidia's GeForce 260 GTX and if so what CPU would you recomend for a gaming rig. And by the way I'm not interested in resolutions bigger then 1680*1050. Tnx and make those head shot count http://img.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] bounce.gif

P.S. Sorry for my english ... I'm from Romania http://img.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] /wahoo.gif

No, it won't.

would it not make more sence to get a hd4870?

mrplow99, I dont know if the OP is buying in Romania but considering the GTX 260 is only about $10 USD more than the 4870($20 less if you count the $30 MIR at Newegg) and the performence is virtually the same, I dont see a problem with the OPs choice of the GTX 260. The E8400, especially OC'd, would not limit that card at all..

I know but the thing is that if I buy HD4870 I would have too spend money for a Ageua PhsyX but with nVidia it's already integreated.

Ageua Phsyx doesn't make much of a difference in games. Either card would be good. If you have a SLI motherboard go with the GTX 260 if you have an xfire board go with the 4870.

And no, the e8400 will not bottleneck the card.

^What he said plus all of the "Good" games use Havok. Such as all of VALVes Source games, Crysis has its own and most others do have Havok because well... Havok is just better.

As for board choice, if you plan to OC I highly suggest a Intel chipset over a nVidia one. Oh and didnt you read about that guy who was able to enable Ageia Physx on ATI 3800 series GPUs? And I think he is looking into enabling it on the 4800 series and I am sure he will be able to as they are the same chip essintially.

Good games my ass, every **** game that uses Havoc **** up the CPU ... I give you two of the best example: F.E.A.R. and Crysis, when it starts to use the phisic engien the framereate go's down fast. ( don't understand me wrong I love Crisys and F.E.A.R. but I hate Havoc ).I give you gust one example of an graphic engien that uses Ageia: Unreal ... and home many games ar made with the Unreal Engien ?!? LOTS of them. ok. And as for the experimental Ageia on ATI GPU's I'm sceptic because I don't think its going to be supported by AMD and as performance it might have a big impact on the ATI GPU that may slow down the performance to a level that is now worth trying for. Finaly I just wanted to lissen to other people's opinion for a CPU that can match the nVidia's GeForce 260 and 280 GTX.

RaZZ - Crysis doesn't use Havok. It uses its own physics engine (which works flawlessly on my system - it's one of the few things that doesn't kill the framerates).

too bad the bodies in crysis dont have ragdoll