Will my cpu bottle-neck 4850x2??

[simo1000rr]

hi guys ..
as the topic says i have an intel core 2 due e6420 (2.13GHZ) and im running 4gig 800mgz mem ..
i wanted to upgrade my 8800gt 512 to a 4850x2 ( 2gig version)... question is would that cpu bottle neck the card?? ( i would love to upgrade to a quad core but i cant ..)

all answers is very much aprciated in advance .. thanx

 

[theAnimal]

Yes. Unless you OC.

 

[hsetir]

What motherboard and psu you have and what resolution you play at ?

 

[simo1000rr]

HERE IS THE PS: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139005

as for he MB its a foxconn 975a( i know its trash)
i usualy play on 1280X1024 but thats cuz my 8800 gt doesnt give me a decent fps in higher res. i was hoping with that new card i would be able to run higher res.

 

[hsetir]

C2D e6420 is excellent overclocker and I guess that motherboard has pretty decent overclocking features. And though 3.6ghz is that cpu's avg overclock on good chipset, see if you can hit 3ghz or anything above 2.7ghz. And the higher resolution you play at, the lower the cpu bottleneck is. If you can get that overclock, the minor bottleneck should not stop you from upgrading to 4850x2.

 

[average joe]

Hi,

I had an E6400 an older lower cache which was paired with a 8800gt. I had no problems playing games at 1600 X 1050. Even Crysis ran when set on on "high" instead of "very high". I'd drop anti Aliasing and bump the resolution. It's pretty hard to tell if AA is running at 8x or 2x unless you compare screen captures or stand still and stare at a diagnol line for a while.

My board is a MSI Platnium 965. It possibly the worst OC'ing board I've ever had. I'm lucky to get 10% and I've even had the software OC tool that came with it crash the system. The board can take a 1066 FSB so I did some checking and low and behold I can throw a q6600 in there. It won't take a 1333FSB quad but the q6600 will run just fine. That's true of your mothboard too. The 945's can only take core 2 duo's but the 965's and 975 can run quads up to 1066 FSB. The ONLY 1066 FSB quad is the Q6600. I picked one up for $180 on newegg. I'm thinking about getting a new motherboard so I can Over Clock this thing some but it did move my processor score for Vista from 5.4 to 5.9. That's the last time I buy an MSI board just because Toms and Anandtech both give it an editors choice. This thing is a turd.

 

[average joe]

I cannot find any data on 975a chipset the 975 and 975 express could both handle a q6600.

 

[theAnimal]

I cannot find any data on 975a chipset the 975 and 975 express could both handle a q6600.

Q6600 will still bottleneck a 4850x2 unless OCed.