Will I be CPU Limited?? Please read

[The Bruce]

Ok, here are my specs.

Athlon XP 3000+
1 Gig DDR400 PC-3200 RAM
ASUS A7N8X-X Motherboard
Geforce Ti4200

By the of the week I will be buying a new Aopen Geforce 6800 GT, and I was wondering if i will be CPU limited, Ram limited or anything if I get it. If so...will it really be that much? And will these limitations go down as games get more graphically intensive and begin depending on the GPU more so than the CPU

 

[justmatt]

What does "CPU Limited" mean?

 

[Kakashi]

This topic should be directed towards the Hardware & Software Forum. This topic does not connect to Half-Life 2 at all.

 

[tearinox]

Wow, once you get a 6800GT. Youll be set man :thumbs:

 

[blanked]

nope your cpu should hold up just fine :thumbs: just make sure you have a good enuf power supply

 

[justmatt]

*points to my first post* What's CPU Limited?

 

[Tupper]

No, your CPU should be fine. I run HL2 at pretty much all high and 800x600, and get good framerates. I have an AMD AthlonXP 2500+, and also a gig of RAM.

 

[blanked]

*points to my first post* What's CPU Limited?

he wants to know if his cpu will be able to keep up with a 6800gt without bottleneck-ing the system..

 

[kupocake]

Ok, here are my specs.

Athlon XP 3000+
1 Gig DDR400 PC-3200 RAM
ASUS A7N8X-X Motherboard
Geforce Ti4200

By the of the week I will be buying a new Aopen Geforce 6800 GT, and I was wondering if i will be CPU limited, Ram limited or anything if I get it. If so...will it really be that much? And will these limitations go down as games get more graphically intensive and begin depending on the GPU more so than the CPU

I'm no expert on this, but i'm going to say that, yes. It will bottleneck at some point. However, I can't imagine that'll it'll bottleneck so much that you'll actually notice it. I'd say that the Ram is enough. The processor could be improved on, but not by that much, and I certainly wouldn't say that you actually need to go out and buy a new processor at all. Buy the card, and leave it at that.

 

[The Bruce]

nope your cpu should hold up just fine :thumbs: just make sure you have a good enuf power supply

350 Watt

I've been reading up a little bit more, and i might pay extra and get the MSI 6800 GT, its got a crazy bundle. Anyway, the 350W PSU is enough right?

 

[Goethe]

Athlon XP 3000+
1 Gig DDR400 PC-3200 RAM
ASUS A7N8X-X Motherboard
Geforce Ti4200

your CPU is way too slow and it will be a bottleneck. To answer your question: yes, your CPU will be limited. Get a faster one.

 

[The Bruce]

your CPU is way too slow and it will be a bottleneck. To answer your question: yes, your CPU will be limited. Get a faster one.

Yeah...just go buy a new CPU. Thanks.

 

[blanked]

350 Watt

I've been reading up a little bit more, and i might pay extra and get the MSI 6800 GT, its got a crazy bundle. Anyway, the 350W PSU is enough right?

uhm 350w is alittle low but i think it should be okay (i think.. not sure, your computer might not even boot with the 6800gt in there :rolling: ) if you can, get atleast 400w or 450w then it should be good.. :thumbs: good choice for the 6800gt btw.. kick ass card..

 

[kupocake]

350 Watt

I've been reading up a little bit more, and i might pay extra and get the MSI 6800 GT, its got a crazy bundle. Anyway, the 350W PSU is enough right?

Just to add a little personal anecdote: My PC looks like this:

CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2600+
GFX Card: Ati Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb
RAM: 1024mb 3200 DDRAM
Motherboard: MSI K7N2-Delta-ILSR
Including onboard 6.1 Channel Sound, 10/100 Network, Firewire and USB2 Support
Drives: Seagate Barracuda 60GB (Partitioned 40/20) AOpen 16x DVD // MSI 16xDVD/8xDVD-R // 3 1/2 Floppy
Speakers: 4.1 Cambridge Soundworks Surround.
Monitor: 15" ADI Provista E44 CRT
512k Adsl via: D-Link DSL-504 4 port USB router
Mouse: Logitech MX510 Optical Mouse
O/S: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4

And I only have a 300W PSU. Runs with no problems whatsoever. Actually, there are sites out there where you can put your PC specs (or proposed PC specs) into a little number crunching page and it'll tell you what PSU you need. Try google.

 

[Ownzed]

Are you kidding? Limited? Yeah right.

 

[blanked]

Just to add a little personal anecdote: My PC looks like this:

CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2600+
GFX Card: Ati Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb
RAM: 1024mb 3200 DDRAM
Motherboard: MSI K7N2-Delta-ILSR
Including onboard 6.1 Channel Sound, 10/100 Network, Firewire and USB2 Support
Drives: Seagate Barracuda 60GB (Partitioned 40/20) AOpen 16x DVD // MSI 16xDVD/8xDVD-R // 3 1/2 Floppy
Speakers: 4.1 Cambridge Soundworks Surround.
Monitor: 15" ADI Provista E44 CRT
512k Adsl via: D-Link DSL-504 4 port USB router
Mouse: Logitech MX510 Optical Mouse
O/S: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4

And I only have a 300W PSU. Runs with no problems whatsoever. Actually, there are sites out there where you can put your PC specs (or proposed PC specs) into a little number crunching page and it'll tell you what PSU you need. Try google.

woot your 9800pro should atleast have a 350w just to make sure there's enough power goin around, my friend tried to use his 9800p on a 300w and his pc didnt boot :bounce:

 

[The Bruce]

Well, on the MSI site it did say that the minimum for the 6800 GT would be a 350W PSU, and i'm not going to be getting a new power supply, i guarantee that. So, it should run comfortably right?

 

[blanked]

yeap i guess you're all set :thumbs:

 

[The Bruce]

i'm so excited lol, i just wish i could go above 1024x768 hehe.

Well, i can go 1152x864, but it looks kinda odd and i don't know why lol

 

[jsc1286]

I've got a Pentium 4 2.66 GHz with 512MB PC-2700 RAM and a BFG 6800GT OC. The sad thing was it would run at the same FPS on almost all the resolutions (excluding 1600x1200, as that gave a little performance hit). However I would run everything on High with 4xAA/8xAF and get about 50FPS, although it did dip quite a lot. End of the story is, I'm selling my 6800GT and getting a 9600XT, 9800Pro, or 6600GT. Personally it was a waste of $400 and I hate my life.

 

[The Bruce]

I've got a Pentium 4 2.66 GHz with 512MB PC-2700 RAM and a BFG 6800GT OC. The sad thing was it would run at the same FPS on almost all the resolutions (excluding 1600x1200, as that gave a little performance hit). However I would run everything on High with 4xAA/8xAF and get about 50FPS, although it did dip quite a lot. End of the story is, I'm selling my 6800GT and getting a 9600XT, 9800Pro, or 6600GT. Personally it was a waste of $400 and I hate my life.

If you get a 9600XT or 9800 pro over a 6600 GT i'm gonna smack you first of all.
Second of all is by the time the Unreal III engine comes out, that 6600 GT won't quite be able to keep up the way your 6800 GT OC will. You should stick with it dude

 

[jsc1286]

By the time Unreal III comes out, or any game in 2005 comes out, I'll have more important things on my hand. And the whole 9600XT/9800Pro/6600GT deal is because of money contraints. I'm about to go to college and I don't have the time or the money to play games anymore.

Besides, I don't see any more games coming out that I would enjoy. Thanks for your concern though

 

[The Bruce]

i do what i can

 

[kupocake]

woot your 9800pro should atleast have a 350w just to make sure there's enough power goin around, my friend tried to use his 9800p on a 300w and his pc didnt boot :bounce:

I think perhaps I get away with it because I have a puny Hard Drive and don't actually have a single card in the Motherboard aside from my Graphics Card (Network and Sound are onboard). I haven't experienced any troubles, and games are running as well as I think they should be (I could after all, be wrong), so i'm not going to rush out and get a new PSU....