7600gt or x1800xt on athlon 64 3000+

ury2ok2000 · Rated PG Joined: 25 May 2006 Posts: 15

My question is if i upgrade to 7600gt or x1800xt (or even 7900gt) whether or not performance will be held back by my athlon 64 3000+ (and also what if i overclocked it --/how much of an overclock would be needed) Thanks in advance.

edvallie · Posted: Mon, 29 May 2006 14:29:47 Post Subject:

with any games your going to be playing your CPU will bottleneck your graphics card with that setup.

Beer Moon · Rated PG Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 13

Not with ANY games. With most NEW games, MAYBE. Those aren't top of the line video cards, they're mid-range.

I'd guess that an OC to 2.4Ghz (~4000+ range) should remove the CPU as a bottleneck for either of those video cards. If you've got a 939 Venice, that shouldn't be too hard to hit either. If you're on a Newcastle (socket 754), you probably won't get that high.

DragonMaster · Rated NC-17 Joined: 31 May 2006 Posts: 134

You could get an X2 3800, no more problems.

SAMSAMHA · Rated NC-17 Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 112

the cpu will be slightly bottleneck, but in most games, the gfx is the main horse. If you oc it a little bit, you shouldn't be held back by the cpu. since 3000, runs at 2000+ and the highest amd cpu is just 2600Mhz I think. So you should be fine.

werty316 · Rated NC-17 Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 187

I say the 7600GT and your 3000+ overclocked to atleast 2.2GHz

ury2ok2000 · Rated PG Joined: 25 May 2006 Posts: 15

thanks for your input. It is socket 939 so hopefully i can overclock it easily enough. I think i will go with the 7600gt and just overclock the cpu for now. anyway thanks again for your inputs.