e6300 OC Video card bottleneck

[manooti]

Hey guys need some help.

My 8800gt has just went on me and is constantly refreshing the video on me. I was wondering if the ati 6850 or the 6870 will be a bottleneck on my e6300 OC to 3.4Ghz 1.34v.

I will be upgrading everything else later on this year after the holidays but will this perform decent with the overclock?

Thanks

 

[overclocker]

not really you should be fine, I would just go for the upgrade.

 

[streetfighter 2]

I think there's a distinct possibility you could be CPU bound in some games just by the fact that newer games are definitely making more effective use of multi-core. That being said you'll probably encounter a mixed bag of bottlenecking with the e6300, HD 6850/6870 and modern games.

In my personal opinion it will perform quite well and be a wise investment till you upgrade the rest of your hardware.

 

[manooti]

Thanks everyone for the replies. I used to have an e8400 overclocked to 3.96Ghz with a gtx 260 and i have to say that for the games i play the most the performance is "almost" the same. i mainly play css, wow, l4d2, some crysis. will be doing other games if the video card can show me some improvement.

thanks again

 

[manooti]

Sorry for adding on to this but i forgot one major major problem. i have an "inexpensive" power supply. i bought this because i remember the reviews and ive seen lots of people using it with a gtx 460 and other newer cards. anyway, its the Rosewill Libertas Series LIB-650. its still running and the 12v rail doesnt go under 12v in OCCT which suggests to me that its still good?

i will be upgrading that as part of the massive overhaul but dont want to do that yet as i like to do things at one shot. if my 8800gt didnt flake on me i would of held up a little longer to do it whole.

so the major question to the major problem as of now is would this power supply fry my system? like i said others have it running with newer cards but i do know all components arent the same and perform differently. just dont want to end up frying my whole rig before i have the money saved to do the overhaul.

thanks and sorry

 

[francis511]

I would upgrade the power supply AND the processor !

 

[manooti]

i would upgrade the processor if there were viable options for 775. im holding up for the new gen with ddr3. im just looking for it to last 2-3 months before everything else starts failing so that way i can transfer the video card over too.

edit- ordered the sapphire 6870.. also ordering a new power supply. ordered the xfx XFX Black Edition P1-750B-CAG9 750W