Can 3 year old Conroe handle 5850?

[manlaidaa]

hey guys i have got a e6300 conroe CPU at 2.33Ghz, with 2GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 RAM sitting on Gigabyte DS3.

well tomorrow i am receiving Sapphire HD 5850 and was wondering if my CPU might nottleneck the GPU performance.

FYI, i got a SAMSUNG 19 inch monitor with maximum reso of 1440x900.

thanks for your opinion in advance. have a nice day.

 

[Rustyy117]

Yes your E6300 will bottleneck your 5850. The higher the res you go, the less bottleneck.

Have you tried OCing your CPU, if you could get it to 3ghz it would help atlot.

 

[rangers]

Ive had my E6320 TO 3.4

 

[saint19]

The importan isn't always the frecuency, is the cache memory and cache shared memory.

 

[plaid311]

I was going to start a thread asking the same question, but I'm glad someone else has basically done it for me. I hope this isn't a hijack since the original poster and I essentially have the same series of chip. I have an un-OC'ed e6600, and am gaming at 1920x1080. I currently use the 8800gts 640, and, like manlaidaa, wanted to upgrade to the 5850. I have an aftermarket Zalman on the CPU, so if I throw a decent overclock to the chip, is there any good reason to think that I would see any sort of bottleneck at that resolution? From what I've read, upgrading to a quad-core cpu wouldn't *necessarily* show you better performance in games since it's not fully utilized for said purpose.

 

[rangers]

the only game that uses a quad is GTA that's my understanding

 

[saint19]

^Not always, GTA IV prefer the quad, but with a tri-core is enough.

 

[manlaidaa]

hey guys thanks alot for answering.

i made some benchies on it, on unigine dx 11 benchmark my rig got score 811, fps 32,2. on resident evil 5, got around 50 fps. res 1440x900, with every settings high, AAx2, AFx8.
games are more than playable, didnt notice any lag or jerkiness.

thus i finally made my conclusion that i dont need to OC my CPU at the moment.

 

[The_Blood_Raven]

From what I see there is little difference in performance between an E6750 @ 2.66 Ghz and one @ 3.2 Ghz, 3.6 Ghz being totally useless. Really if you can get to around 3 Ghz you are doing fine.