Cpu bottleneck?

rakee18 · Aug 10, 2008, 02:53 AM

Is my cpu bottlenecking my 4870 crossfire? If I overclock the cpu would it still be a bottleneck?

OzzmanFloyd120 · Aug 10, 2008, 03:01 AM

Yeah, it probably is bottlenecking a little. And yes it would stop the bottle neck if you overclocked it. Aim for at least 2.5ghz

Edit: Depending on what type of ram you have also you might be able to bring that up to DDR800 because the slower ram is also going to hold you back in your overclocking, if it's crap and can't go past 700-750 you might want to look into upgradin git.

dark2099 · Aug 10, 2008, 03:02 AM

It may be a bottleneck and overclocking the CPU would definitely help, how much is left to be seen.

rakee18 · Aug 10, 2008, 03:10 AM

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Originally Posted by OzzmanFloyd120

Yeah, it probably is bottlenecking a little. And yes it would stop the bottle neck if you overclocked it. Aim for at least 2.5ghz

Edit: Depending on what type of ram you have also you might be able to bring that up to DDR800 because the slower ram is also going to hold you back in your overclocking, if it's crap and can't go past 700-750 you might want to look into upgradin git.

Whats causing the bottleneck? Is it the 2Ghz core clock or the 800Mhz FSB?

deagle · Aug 10, 2008, 03:14 AM

both

rakee18 · Aug 10, 2008, 03:24 AM

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Originally Posted by deagle

both

I was able to to overclock it to 3Ghz 1200Mhz FSB and was stable too. Would it stiil bottleneck?

OzzmanFloyd120 · Aug 10, 2008, 03:30 AM

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Originally Posted by rakee18

I was able to to overclock it to 3Ghz 1200Mhz FSB and was stable too. Would it stiil bottleneck?

Doubtful, 3ghz seems to be the magic number these days to relieve a bottleneck. What's your ram speed?

rakee18 · Aug 10, 2008, 03:33 AM

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Originally Posted by OzzmanFloyd120

Doubtful, 3ghz seems to be the magic number these days to relieve a bottleneck. What's your ram speed?

Stock ram speed is 667 but it was stable at 800Mhz

OzzmanFloyd120 · Aug 10, 2008, 03:35 AM

You should be fine like that, if you passed a stability test then you should be good.
If I were you I would upgrade my ram down the road a little though.

p_o_s_pc · Aug 10, 2008, 07:07 AM

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Originally Posted by OzzmanFloyd120

Doubtful, 3ghz seems to be the magic number these days to relieve a bottleneck. What's your ram speed?

not so true with AMD. At 3ghz on his C2D it still would have alittle bottleneck but wouldn't be noticeable in games only in benchmarks

JC316 · Aug 10, 2008, 07:10 AM

I think that the only thing that you would see a bottleneck on is synthetic benchmarks. That system should be able to run anything smoothly. 3GHZ will get you a few more FPS, but whats the point when damn near any game would be running above 60 FPS?

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