Bottlenecking?

[cyprus1234]

Hello any idea if my cpu is bottlenecking my system?


3.4 965BE stock
480gtx stock
4gig ddr3 corsair 1600
880 gigabyte board


I plan on playing ffxiv in 1080p and I ran the ffxiv benchmark test and scored a 4500 on low and 4100 on high, these numbers seem to be low for a 480gtx. I have no idea how to OC i dont even know where to start if i wanted to OC. Any ideas? Thanks for any input

 

[enzo matrix]

It would only become an arguable bottleneck if you are running multiple cards.

You could test it yourself too:
1. open the task manager
2. run the game
3. when you have trouble, tab out. You'll see the CPU usage for the past 15 seconds or so.

 

[jimmysmitty]

I tried to search for the game results with just a GTX 480. I saw one with a OCed Core i7 and a HD5870 OCed as well hitting about 4100 on high.

I would guess that yours is probably fine.

http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?s=87085f2fc9a20691a3360d155f226dd3&p=1035834188&postcount=13

This guy has a Core i7 @ 3.6GHz and 2 GTX 480s in SLI. SLI wasn't working but he got 4500 on high and 1080P.

Based on that, I would say yours is pretty much on par with what you have.

As for OCing, for that CPU you can go into the BIOS and just change the multiplier to a higher number as long as you have proper cooling it should just go.

 

[cyprus1234]

Ok sounds good thank you for the input jimmy and enzo

 

[cyprus1234]

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