Will intel E5800 cpu bottleneck 6850?

p.s
I'm just using it to play Rift and some old games

At stock speed, 3.2GHz, right? Already installed the card? How it's performance?
What is your card before?

aye at 3.2GHz. I just bought the card and haven't tried it yet, because I'm outside the country atm lol. Just dropped in to ask if this card is compatible with my cpu and all, I mean if not I need to send it back. My psu is antec 550w I believe thats enough. My previous card was Sapphire 5770.

Compatibility will be governed by the motherboard.

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Best answer selected by manhunt320.

I see, thank you.

For some reason I can't find this E5800 on the site you gave me, but alas as long as it doesn't bottleneck I would just go along with it.

My Apology, i did mix it with C2D E8500.
In fact, your CPU might throttle the game performance @ high resolution. But I would recommend you to try it first, give a little boost of OC if possible.

Also what Motherboard do you have ?

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Oh but you still gave the best answer no need to remove it. I was a bit confused so I had to post this thread.

I asked my friend to do the testing for me he said the game varies and when he was testing it on a game called Rift he said the framrated was imcreased around 10-15 sometimes 20 on the highest detail and resolution. On 5770 the framerate on high setting was about 20-50 quite unstable. On 6850 on ultra setting it's about the same but high setting it had an visible improvement.

I asked this question was because I'm not sure if in certain games 10-15 fps was suppose to be a huge increase.

I'm not sure what my motherbaord is, but it's something PQA5 or something, it's about the price range of 90 dollars, quite small too, only two memory ram slots.

IF you're getting 10-15 FPS in the game, it's not playable at all. the game is playable @ 30+ FPS if you're getting 10-15 FPS the CPU for sure is bottlenecking.

If you mean that the FPS increased by 10-15, then you're good to go. Again, see the average FPS you get in the game, if it's above 30+ FPS you're doing a great job.

Tell me what Mobo you do have, it might support a better CPU.

Yea i meant I use to get around 20-40 sometimes 50 fps on high setting in the new game Rift. After I installed this new card, I got around 10-15 boost in that game but thats only that game for otehr games there are no change, like WoW.

Although I don't know whta my motherboard is, but all I know is that it only supports LGA 775, and I believe the good ones are around few hundred if not over 200 somewhere around that.

I see, thanks for all the information there mate.

You're welcome even though i miss-leaded you.  
But i would suggest to upgrade your whole system for playing @ 1080P. Such higher resolution with some stuff like AA, AF, MSAA maxed out you'll need more than HD 6850.

Ah yes, I'm thinking of doing that, got a store near my place. I never use AA or MSAA to play games, not even AF. For some reasons I can't tell the difference between them on or off, my eye sights are pretty bad indeed, but I can tell the difference only when using an Nvidia graphics card, but on Ati, nahhh.

Thanks again for the reply sir.