Athlon X4 bottleneck?

[madmanden]

I am getting a Radeon 5850 in a few days and i would just like to know if you think my processor would bottleneck it too much?

It is an AMD Athlon x4 635 overclocked to 3,8ghz. Performance is around 5-10% faster than a Phenom x4 965 at stock speed.

 

[rolli59]

No it should not be a bottleneck. Good overclock!

 

[madmanden]

Thanks Mega happy. I love my overclock. Needs some evil cooling though but temps are always under 50-60 celcius at full load.

I didn't know about how much CPU power those cards needed i am upgrading from a 4850 which is finally beginning to be a little weak in games so its nice to be ready for the next few months.

 

[rolli59]

With that overclock you would hardly bottleneck HD5970

 

[madmanden]

Best answer selected by madmanden.

 

[madmanden]

With that overclock you would hardly bottleneck HD5970

Would be nice to have one but the price is very steep Also a 5850 should pretty much handle any games at the moment. (unless you want crazy resolutions of course.)

Im only running at 1360x768 on a 32 inch TV so it will do more than fine ^^

 

[rolli59]

Even the HD5850 is overkill for that resolution. Enjoy!

 

[madmanden]

Even the HD5850 is overkill for that resolution. Enjoy!

Yeah but im going to play a few games on my 23 inch screen with a 2048x1152 resolution. Mostly strategy games but its nice to know it can run anything for the next year or two ^^ I deliberately chose a big screen with a small resolution to get as much performance as possible in the future.