Ronnie
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i would downgrade to the 8800gts and go with atleast an e6400
The General said:Psh, you guys are lame. A bottleneck would only occur if you had say an Athlon 64 3000+ or something, even that's pushing it. The E6300 is plenty fast.
If you go cheap on a processor and buy a $650 video card, the CPU will most definitely be your bottleneck.
I wouldnt go any cheaper if I were you.
It is true: you donÂ’t need a high-end processor for real gaming with realistic settings and high image quality. The gaming performance will still be limited by the graphics card.
It is true that faster CPUs than those mentioned in the minimum system requirements do not really stimulate and significant fps rate increase. So, the slower processors models from the Pentium 4 and Athlon 64 processor families can cope easily with the latest generation 3D shooters.
HAVOC2k5 said:But and Athlon, X2, P4, PD, CD or CD2 at least 1.8GHz will not bottleneck even the new 8800GTX. The GPU is only 575Mhz on standard models. Even a Athlon 1.8Ghz is over 3 times faster then the GPU. The GDDR4 on the card is even over 3 times faster.
HAVOC2k5 said:The GPU isn't sitting there in "CPU Intensive" zones going, "Oh come on already... would you please hurry up and give us the friggin' data we need???