Bottlenecking my Graphics card?

[darkbunneh]

Hello, I have a computer right now The specs are

Pentium D 2.8GHZ cpu
Radeon HD4850 Graphics card
500Gb hard drive
Biostar G31D-M7 Motherboard
3GB of ram

Would the Pentium D Bottleneck my graphics card? Any help would be nice





I was also wondering if my Newer computer would be bottlenecked. The specs for it are...



Graphics: Ati Radeon HD4850 1GB
CPU: AMD Athlon II x2 3.0 GHz
Motherboard: Biostar A760G M2+
RAM: 3GB
HardDrive: 500GB

 

[vilenjan]

Yes you are, a 2.8GHz Pentium D is slower than the slowest Athlon64 X2 cpus, and those are considered slow as well nowdays.

With your proc i'de say you will cap out with something like 4670 or a 240GT.

Honestly I would save for a new system. You can build a cheap AMD based build with a quick triple core proc, motherboard and memory for under $200.

 

[HVDynamo]

yes, the Pentium will definitely bottleneck your the HD4850. I am running a 9800GTX which is pretty much the same as the 4850 and my athlon 64 X2 4400+ bottlenecks it a little. The newer one probably won't bottleneck it, even if it does you will see a huge performance boost in games with the newer computer.

 

[darkbunneh]

Im running at 1024x768 Same as my desktops resolution

 

[darkbunneh]

Also the cpu is AMD Athlon II X2 250 I forgot to add the 250

 

[darkbunneh]

Its an LCD monitor

 

[youssef 2010]

I had a Pentium D 925 in my old system and it was bottle necking my 4870 to the extent that the final levels of Mass Effect would turn into a slide show at 1024 x768. The game also slowed down considerably whenever I would look at the water on the citadel.

I think you should move the 4850 to the new machine and disable the integrated graphics on the AMD board to let the GPU stretch its legs a bit.

As you've probably noticed. Pentium D doesn't exist on TH's Gaming CPU Hierarchy chart but the X2 250 does.

Sorry for the long post.

 

[darkbunneh]

So basically when i get the new computer that has the 3.0 AMD Athlon II x2 250 cpu will i have to overclock?
If so how would i do that

 

[youssef 2010]

If you didn't fell a significant performance increase and want to OC. head to this article for overclocking the "Locked" Phenom II s which also applies to the "Locked" Athlon IIs

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-cpu-overclock,2396.html

You may want to see if you can UNLOCK any dormant cores on your CPU. I don't know if Athlon IIs have dormant cores or not, but it's certainly worth a try.

If you don't know how to unlock cores, read this page of the SBM article

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/value-gaming-pc,2578-8.html

 

[lilotimz]

anthlon II X2's do NOT have dormant cores. They are pure dual cores ...

Only ones i know that have dormant cores and some chance of unlocking into usable ones (not necessarily stable) are the Phenom II X2/X3 - Anthlon II X3

theres also a OEM phenom II that is basically a X6 with 2 cores disabled... but thats another story.

 

[youssef 2010]

I thought so, but I wasn't sure so, I decided to mention it anyway.