6570 -> 7750 : Will it get bottlenecked by CPU/DDR2 ?

AnitaPeterson

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Apr 24, 2001
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Hi folks,

I'm putting together a dedicated gaming machine, and was wondering about the videocard choice.

The base system is as follows:

Phenom X3 720 (unlocked to quad-core)
ASRock 770DE+
4 GB DDR2 (yes, well, it's an AM2+ mobo)
Corsair 430W PSU
SSD boot drive, 500 GB storage HDD

As you can see, it's an older-specs system. Mind you, the machine is made from spare parts, some of which were given to me for free (except the SSD).

I have a Radeon 6570, but I hope could trade it (for some extra cash) for an 7750 instead (both Asus cards).

Under these particular circumstances (and without making a motherboard/RAM upgrade) is it worth upgrading the 6570? Would the 7750 be bottlenecked by the existing CPU/RAM combo?
 
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InfoTiger

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No, I just updated my AMD machine with 7850. I don't feel any bottleneck when I was playing BF3 at 1440p.