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    Will a socket 939 PC bottleneck a 4870?

    Think that might be the problem. You can't set the CPU aside in my case. When I upgrade next year to the newest platform with PCI-E 2.0 and all that jazz, I'm sure this 4870 will eat lots of games for lunch. As of now, I am squeezing every last bit of MHz of out my RAM and proc, so that's as...
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    Will a socket 939 PC bottleneck a 4870?

    I guess hitting those 30-40 fps areas in games like BF@ when in heavy combat gets extremely annoying. If, like I said, you guys think I should roll back to my old 3870 (for this s939 machine and save my 4870 for my new build), because it might help stabilize my framerates, I'd rather do...
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    Will a socket 939 PC bottleneck a 4870?

    I agree... I had a Connect3D x1900xtx which I upgraded to a 3870, and saw huge gains. I picked this 4870 up at a price I couldn't pass up. Upon trying it on some of the older games I play, my performance was worse (BF2, Thief: Deadly Shadows, Hitman Blood Money). BTW, my monitor only goes up to...
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    Will a socket 939 PC bottleneck a 4870?

    Yea, I picked up a 4870 about two weeks ago, and I'm getting a pretty good bottleneck with my amd x2 4800 OC'd to 2.88GHz. When there's AI present, my frames suffer pretty noticeably. I'm going to update my entire system by next spring, so should I consider rolling back to my 3870 for now on...