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manlaidaa   10-19-2009 at 05:28:51 PM

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.

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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.
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omgitzfatal   10-19-2009 at 05:33:32 PM
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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.

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saint19   10-19-2009 at 05:47:33 PM

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

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plaid311   10-19-2009 at 05:47:35 PM

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.


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rangers   10-19-2009 at 05:55:48 PM

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

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saint19   10-19-2009 at 05:57:37 PM

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

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manlaidaa   10-29-2009 at 02:55:13 AM

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.


Message edited by manlaidaa on 10-29-2009 at 11:59:39 AM
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The_Blood_Raven   10-29-2009 at 03:43:29 AM

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.

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