How bottlenecked have i been?

[qwertymatrix]

I have been using a HD 5670 plugged into a pci-e 1.0 x16 slot. Now i will be getting an entirely new system soon but may hold off on a new gpu for a bit. In the meantime im wondering how much my card has been bottlenecked and if it has what kind of performance boost can i expect from it when it finally gets plugged into a proper pci-e 2.x slot?

in case if there is more information needed to find a bootleneck this is my current mobo... (dont laugh!)


Motherboard manufacturer's name: ASUS A8M2N-LA
HP/Compaq name: Naos-GL6
also CPU is a single core 2.4GHz Athlon 64

 

[sk1939]

Somewhat, but not severely I would say.

 

[Sunius]

It wasn't bottlenecked at all. You won't get any performance boost at all. HD 5670 doesn't use full bandwidth of PCIe 1.0 x16, only high end cards like GTX 570+ could run into bottleneck problems. I emphasize the word 'could', because even then the possibility is low.

 

[randomkid]

I have been using a HD 5670 plugged into a pci-e 1.0 x16 slot. Now i will be getting an entirely new system soon but may hold off on a new gpu for a bit. In the meantime im wondering how much my card has been bottlenecked and if it has what kind of performance boost can i expect from it when it finally gets plugged into a proper pci-e 2.x slot?

in case if there is more information needed to find a bootleneck this is my current mobo... (dont laugh!)


Motherboard manufacturer's name: ASUS A8M2N-LA
HP/Compaq name: Naos-GL6
also CPU is a single core 2.4GHz Athlon 64

We can only give theorethical answers. I guess the 5670 is not too high up in the performance ladder that it is not being bottlenecked by the PCIe1. But I maybe wrong. You can find out soon enough & you will be in a position to share with us the facts based on your own experience. Before you move the 5670 to the new system, take measurement/benchmark of the fps you get in your favorite games. After you move to the new system, take the same measurement & compare.

 

[qwertymatrix]

We can only give theorethical answers. I guess the 5670 is not too high up in the performance ladder that it is not being bottlenecked by the PCIe1. But I maybe wrong. You can find out soon enough & you will be in a position to share with us the facts based on your own experience. Before you move the 5670 to the new system, take measurement/benchmark of the fps you get in your favorite games. After you move to the new system, take the same measurement & compare.

I'll have to be honest here.. and that is im a noob in this area and dont have any idea how to do these measurements and benchmark testing as you suggested; wasnt something i was thinking of doing but now you bring it up i'll give it a shot to add to the this data to the community. But i'd have to also mention the sample size may not be very good as there are just some games i havent gotten around to getting b/c of the whole system in general wont run them.

 

[randomkid]

No problem. We all started as noob here... in the beginning we learn by asking but as we gain more knowledge by asking more & having personal experience, then we become contributors... Just stick around & you will get there.

Looking again at your rig, I would say that the single core Athlon 64 is giving you more bottleneck than the PCIe itself. In any case, a system upgrade is truly in order.