Will My Pentium 4 Bottleneck a HD 3650?

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Will a Pentium 4 Socket 478 @ 3.06 GHz Bottleneck a Sapphire Radeon HD 3650 512 mb? :heink:

I have 1,75 GB of RAM :lol:

------------------------------ Intel Core i3 530 @ 2.93GHz, 8GB DDR3 SDRAM, 750GB

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Yes, your Pent. 4 will bottleneck the card.
But at 3.0GHz i think it's still okay.

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Yes, no matter what speed, the OP cpu will bottleneck any cards today..
But 3.0Ghz is better than 2.0Ghz, right...

But will it give me some more FPS in COD4...? i run it with all settings to low with tweaks and i get about 25 FPS on this setup:
Pentium 4 2.00 GHZ
geForce 6200 512mb
1.75 Gb of RAM :lol:

------------------------------ Intel Core i3 530 @ 2.93GHz, 8GB DDR3 SDRAM, 750GB
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Yes, it will give you some more fps...

HD3650 even with a CPU bottleneck is a big upgrade from GF6200

Reply to rolli59

Yes, that was what i was thinking..COD4 recommends you to have minimum a Pentium 4 @2.4 GHz... And geForce 6600/Radeon 9800Pro or better. Therefore, if i get a P4 wich is faster than the 2.4 and a slightly newer GPU, i would be able to play COD4 pretty good, and i don't care if i even have to run it at lowest settings. As long as i get good frame rates, i am satisfied. :lol: My i3 System is for the real gaming

------------------------------ Intel Core i3 530 @ 2.93GHz, 8GB DDR3 SDRAM, 750GB
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Then go for it...

But i will need a new PSU to get the HD3650 and all of that will cost me about $190 Bucks (i live in Norway, 190 bucks is actually not so much for me but for u guys it may be.. things is like 40% cheaper in teh US compared to this place). :lol: But any other suggestions on a GPU wich will run on a 250W PSU without blowing my system up? GeForce 6600 or above is what im looking for.

------------------------------ Intel Core i3 530 @ 2.93GHz, 8GB DDR3 SDRAM, 750GB
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I am an owner of HD3650 AGP 512MB DDR2 and have an Intel Celeron D 330 2,66Ghz. I can tell you that even if the card was not bottlenecked it can't perform very good...go for a HD3870.
I owned the card since late 2008 and thought it was underperforming because of bad CPU and PSU, but after upgrading my PSU and clocking the cpu to 3Ghz and above i understood that the card can't perform very good...
I compared my 3dmarks with Core2Duo and Core2Quad users with this card...the score was almost the same. The card just can't do much
So either buy HD3870 or look for better

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But it needs to be a cheap AGP card and im only looking for 10-20 more FPS in CoD4 on lowest... And i have a very limited choice they almost only sell HD 4350 AGP, 4650 AGP, 4670 AGP i think and HD 3650 AGP and 9400 GT PCI.... (not PCI-e)

------------------------------ Intel Core i3 530 @ 2.93GHz, 8GB DDR3 SDRAM, 750GB
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