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Will my cpu bottle-neck 4850x2??

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simo1000rr   03-10-2009 at 10:41:00 PM

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

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theAnimal   03-10-2009 at 11:48:11 PM
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Yes. Unless you OC.

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hsetir   03-10-2009 at 11:59:17 PM
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What motherboard and psu you have and what resolution you play at ?

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simo1000rr   03-11-2009 at 12:41:14 AM
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HERE IS THE PS: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817139005

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.

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hsetir   03-11-2009 at 01:31:44 AM
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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.

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strangestranger   03-11-2009 at 08:35:25 AM
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If there is a bottleneck it is a bottleneck regardless of resolution, if you have a bottleneck then you would not be getting adequate performance due to a component, if you increase your res, in most cases it just strains the gpu more but all that will mean is that you get even worse performance than you were at lower res which will mean gameplay is even worse.

Just turn down settings like normal people would or save up for other upgrades.

Remember also, that if you turn down your res and gfx settings to low and you don't see much improvement in performance then you will not see much benefit by a gfx card update.

if however you get more performance at low res as you describe then you will see an improvement by upgrading, how much will depend on the game.

http://www.cpu3d.com/review/6408-9 [...] -dx10.html

Here's a reviews which only uses a Q6600, quad core won't make too much of a difference.

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average joe   03-11-2009 at 09:48:42 PM
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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.

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average joe   03-11-2009 at 09:52:55 PM
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I cannot find any data on 975a chipset the 975 and 975 express could both handle a q6600.

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theAnimal   03-11-2009 at 10:20:39 PM
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average joe wrote :

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.

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