7770 Bottleneck

[chiknwingding]

Hello, I was just wondering if the Phenom ll x2 3.5GHz will bottleneck the Sapphire Radeon HD 7770 Vapor-X? Thanks!!

 

[mclovits]

I think it might a bit in CPU intensive games, in fact I'm almost positive there will be a slight bottleneck, but in more GPU intensive games you won't see much of a negative impact.

 

[chiknwingding]

OK, well I don't play any FPS games. Mostly racing and RTS. Civ 5 is a very processor-demanding game, what kind of bottleneck will I be looking at? As in, approximate FPS drop on a 20" 1600x900?

 

[nadim615]

I don't think it should be too big of a bottleneck, but its hard to know :s