Right two quick questions here.
Crysis is obviously very demanding. However on high detail it actually plays surprisingly smoothly, obviously though more is better and I was wondering if it's my processor or GPU which is the weakest component, basically would a GPU upgrade make a difference or is it the processor which is struggling, I assume the it's the GPU, which is a HD4870, not at all bad but obviously I didn't expect it to max out Crysis.
So onto the other question. I'll consider a GPU upgrade this Christmas as a few games are coming out next year and I like to be sure I can play them on the highest settings possible. However I know CPU's can bottleneck a card, would a Q6600 oc'd to 3ghz bottleneck some of better cards?
I was thinking of getting a HD4890 and OC'ing it quite a bit? Do you think an OC'd 4890 would give me a noticeable difference compared to my slightly OC'd 4870(it isn't playing nice with OC'ing).
If it isn't a noticeable improvement I'll hold off for a while and wait for the next lot of GPU's I assume some will come out next year, but again I'd like to know if my processor is up to scratch?
Crysis is obviously very demanding. However on high detail it actually plays surprisingly smoothly, obviously though more is better and I was wondering if it's my processor or GPU which is the weakest component, basically would a GPU upgrade make a difference or is it the processor which is struggling, I assume the it's the GPU, which is a HD4870, not at all bad but obviously I didn't expect it to max out Crysis.
So onto the other question. I'll consider a GPU upgrade this Christmas as a few games are coming out next year and I like to be sure I can play them on the highest settings possible. However I know CPU's can bottleneck a card, would a Q6600 oc'd to 3ghz bottleneck some of better cards?
I was thinking of getting a HD4890 and OC'ing it quite a bit? Do you think an OC'd 4890 would give me a noticeable difference compared to my slightly OC'd 4870(it isn't playing nice with OC'ing).
If it isn't a noticeable improvement I'll hold off for a while and wait for the next lot of GPU's I assume some will come out next year, but again I'd like to know if my processor is up to scratch?