Will My Cpu Bottleneck my Cards???

[waytoosmall]

Well that is what this forum is for. People who know helping people who don't. Sorry if I brought it back up...

 

[ThirdLeft152]

no worries, i think there has been a big thing again with the new 7 series geforces.

 

[Nitestick]

basically a new cpu will not bottleneck a graphics card. i agree with Brtnboarder495's post. don't bother with the higher clocked versions of processors because it is to easy to overclock the cheaper model to that speed or even further

 

[NosBoost300]

basically a new cpu will not bottleneck a graphics card. i agree with Brtnboarder495's post. don't bother with the higher clocked versions of processors because it is to easy to overclock the cheaper model to that speed or even further

but then you can take the even higher clocked one.. and go even further than that... but is that really necessary?? i think not...

 

[Nitestick]

not necessarily true. with enough cooling virtually any of the lower clocked processors should be able to get near the limits of the athlon architecture. i mean for instance i think i could probably get my cpu up to around 2.8ghz given what its demonstrated so far. you would not get the 4600+ or 4800+ much further than 2.8ghz.