Will my cpu bottleneck

[johneastham]

Hello,
i have a intel pentium overclocked to 4.00ghz will
it bottleneck a evga nividia geforce gtx 650

 

[mayankleoboy1]

What is the exact CPU model ?
what is your screen resolution ?
What games do you play ?

 

[mvitkun]

Hello,
i have a intel pentium overclocked to 4.00ghz will
it bottleneck a evga nividia geforce gtx 650

most likely.
although considering the cards small bandwidth,how low end it is,et al the bottleneck should not make too much difference.
It's better for gaming/or anything to have more than one core,quad cores are recommended,dual cores bottleneck somewhat,single core processors,depending on how good they are will bottleneck severely a majority of the time.

make sure that you have windows vista or 7 though because windows xp can't use directX 10 or 11.

also the gtx 465 is on sale right now for $105,I'd highly recommend it over the gtx 650.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/519?vs=681
the benchmark above compares the two cards performance.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133344

also some of the pentium's can be upgraded to pentium dual cores or core 2 duo's which would be significantly better,try looking into that.

 

[johneastham]

hi thx for the reply's my model is the pentium e5700 and i am upgrading from a hd 5450 and if it helps i have a budget of around £200 my resolution is 1600x900 and i play grand theft auto, borderlands, nfs shift etc and i use windows 7 home premium with 8gb ram

 

[mvitkun]

hi thx for the reply's my model is the pentium e5700 and i am upgrading from a hd 5450 and if it helps i have a budget of around £200 my resolution is 1600x900 and i play grand theft auto, borderlands, nfs shift etc and i use windows 7 home premium with 8gb ram

the pentium dual core is a different story altogether.
whereas pentium has one core,or one core with HT,pentium dual core has two physical cores.
the e5700 is pretty decent,not ideal but decent still for gaming.
since you said £ I'm assuming your in the UK.
I'd recommend the gtx 580
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1536mb-evga-gtx-580-refurbished-40nm-4008mhz-gddr5-gpu-772mhz-shader-1544mhz-512-cores-mini-hdmi-2x-
although for 1600x900 it's probably overkill

 

[johneastham]

thanks for the help

 

[esrever]

don't buy a 580. Get a cheaper card like the 560SE and it should complement your cpu more. Even clocked that high, the E5700 isn't going to be giving enough performance so the 580 is a waste. The 650 also isn't a good card, you should look at a 460 or a 560 for better performance.

 

[johneastham]

im looking at the gtx 560ti it looks like a good enough card

 

[mvitkun]

don't buy a 580. Get a cheaper card like the 560SE and it should complement your cpu more. Even clocked that high, the E5700 isn't going to be giving enough performance so the 580 is a waste. The 650 also isn't a good card, you should look at a 460 or a 560 for better performance.

I say the gtx 580.
yeah it'll bottleneck around the 560 ti 448 even if he overclocks it a bit.
but the gtx 580 can stay with him for a long time,the same isn't true of the 560 ti.
also the 560 ti and the 580 are similarly priced in the UK.

£179.47 for the 560 ti.
the cheapest one by the way
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1gb-pov-tgt-gtx-560-ti-beast-40nm-4224mhz-gddr5-gpu-954mhz-shader-1908mhz-384-cores
£205.31 for the 580.
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1536mb-evga-gtx-580-refurbished-40nm-4008mhz-gddr5-gpu-772mhz-shader-1544mhz-512-cores-mini-hdmi-2x-
for a £20 difference and double the performance,which is worth more?
even though it'll bottleneck,the card will stay usable longer,and it's very closely priced,for much better performance.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/547?vs=517