Is My CPU Bottlenecking My 4870?

[sinchero]

Hey guys i just bought a sapphire 4870 1gb and i haven't noticed that much improvement from my old 8600gts
for example i ran a far cry 2 test

1440x900 DX10 Very High Settings
and i get an amazing 26.35 fps

then i ran a 640x480 DX9 Low Settings
and i get some pretty NICE results 56.29 fps

i also get about 45 FPS in COD4 Single Player 1920x1080 MAX Settings 4X AA

my current system is
AMD X2 4800+
4GB Ram
Ati 4870 1GB
Foxconn A6VMX Mobo
500GB HD

So what do you guys think?

 

[eded333]

Id say yes, your cpu is bottlencking your card. Quick answer

 

[eded333]

Double post

 

[apache_lives]

dont expect too much from the cards - some games are designed sort of ahead of time and never work well for a few generations of hardware like Farcry (1) - only the highest end cards (FX5800/9800 etc) would run it at 1024x768 etc where as the next gen it was too easy to run etc

 

[eded333]

Apache..... he should be getting something like 70 fps for farcry 2 on that card at that resolution and aa enabled, so there is a bottleneck.
Tomshardware benchmark says that with 1680x1050, 4AA, 8AF, Maximum Quality, he should be getting 100 fps.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/charts/gaming-graphics-charts-2009/F.E.A.R.-2,1178.html

Here is another benchmark that show cpu/gpu fps with an 4850 or 9800GT, and as you can see, you have a big bottleneck.
http://www.madboxpc.com/foro/Benchmark-CPU-GPU-Farcry-2-t85984.html

Try overclocking the cpu, it could also be driver issues, as you came from an nvidia card, use driver cleaner.
If you can get a phenom II on that board, maybe the 920, get it, and oc it to 3,4 or 3,2 which with a normal air ventilacion is really easy. That will solve any bottleneck you could have, leaving you some space for another gpu upgrade, and without letting out too much cash.
Good luck

 

[invisik]

Yes your cpu is a bottleneck. I would try to overclock it if you can. can you give spec on the memory?

 

[sinchero]

@eded
i used driver sweeper and manually uninstalled the nvidia drivers too.
Ill be getting a new mobo and cpu since my mobo doesn't even have PCI E 2.0 i will get this

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128387&Tpk=MA790X

And This

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103471

@invisik

 

[invisik]

Well that's a good upgrade but you can go another way about it if you want to save money. Since your mobo i believe supports am2+ adding a cheap AMD Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition Kuma wouldn't be a bad option. You dont need pcie2.0 to run the latest video card. pciex16 is plenty.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103678

If you want a quad something like this should be plenty.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103472

 

[sinchero]

It's already too late for me , i already placed the order i think it will be here by tomorrow i will do some benchmarks after im done reinstalling OS and all that.

 

[eded333]

Wow, thats a really nice upgrade, ill be waiting to see how the new build performs.

 

[invisik]

Sweet get back to us and let us know the power of your new rig.
=P

 

[sinchero]

i just ran some quick tests

Far Cry 2
* Average Framerate: 40.91
* Max. Framerate: 61.19
* Min. Framerate: 29.90
1440X900
8X AA
Very High Settings

nice improvement here
i also ran some cod tests

COD4
MAX Settings
1920x1080
4X AA
82 FPS avergange big improvement here since i was getting just 45 with my old processor

and finally

COD WAW
MAX Settings
1920x1080
No AA
72 FPS also very good improvement i was getting around 40 before

What do you guys think is that fine for a 4870?

Thanks for the help.

 

[meodowla]

I'm running on 1920x1080 with
AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+ 3GHz
2x2GB 800MHz(working at 775MHz, I don't know why) Corsair RAM in Dual Channel
Coolermaster Silent Pro M600 PSU
MSI HD4850 512MB

What do you say?

 

[eded333]

Those seem very good results to me. Enjoy your new build ^^.

 

[B-Unit]

I'm running on 1920x1080 with
AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+ 3GHz
2x2GB 800MHz(working at 775MHz, I don't know why) Corsair RAM in Dual Channel
Coolermaster Silent Pro M600 PSU
MSI HD4850 512MB

What do you say?

I say what is your question?

 

[sinchero]

i also notices a huge improvement in TF2 , with my old processor i used to drop all the way down to 25 - 35 fps in 33 persons servers , and now i can stay always at 80 - 120 fps so was a nice jump too in TF2.

Thanks for helping me out guys.