4800+ 939: how much of a bottle-neck?

[liquid51]

I've yet to make the jump to LCD, and brightside isn't going to be offering anything on the consumer level (that I can afford anyway) any time soon, so I may be taking the dive, coupled with a vid card upgrade.

So, would it be foolish to run an 8800gtx or r600 with this cpu? x2 4800, 2 gigs ddr, in an asus a8n32-sli (no sli for me, gave up on that ). I don't want to buy a super nice card and find that I could've had the same performance for $200 cheaper because I'm cpu limited. And I'm not stuck on nv or ati. Whoever can offer me the better card at the better price is where I want to spend my money.

Thanks for any advice

 

[Brian48]

That's what I'm running with my 8800GTX. Should be fine. Just raise the eye candy and resolution.

 

[Makaveli]

it will be a slight bottleneck yes, if your running it stock. Try to hit 2.6-2.8 it will give u a nice little boost in those games u are cpu bottlenecked.

 

[MrWizzard]

I am running that exact setup in one of my rigs but with diff MOBO. The whole bottleneck issue is way over hyped, turn everything to max and it will not be an issue at all.

 

[adairusmc]

Double post.

 

[adairusmc]

Originally posted by: adairusmc

Originally posted by: Brian48
That's what I'm running with my 8800GTX. Should be fine. Just raise the eye candy and resolution.

Same here, No issues at all with my 8800GTX and my 4800+ (mine is overclocked 300Mhz though)

 

[Painman]

Originally posted by: MrWizzard
The whole bottleneck issue is way over hyped

Indeed.

 

[liquid51]

very cool. I am running at 2.6ghz now and have hit 2.8 with a mild overvolt, so I'm good there. Thx so much everyone, just what I wanted to hear (NOT what my wife wanted to hear )