best card to pair with Athlon X2 6000+

[RussianSensation]

What are you running to get a 50% CPU load in Windows? Are you watching five 720p YouTube videos at once or something?

Maybe you should run a scanner to see what parasitic background process you’re running that’s leeching so much processing power?

Ya I know. I should probably do a Windows 7 reinstall 😉 My Hard drive is almost full and general windows experience is becoming a crawl.

Looks like the OP might run some benches of 6000+ and the X3 for a comparison.

 

[maddie]

It's pretty easy. If I find my system under-performing then fire up a monitor tool like MSI Afterbuner and look at GPU use. If your GPU use is under 90% then either your CPU is the bottleneck OR the game just isn't demanding OR Vsync is on.

Thank you for the advice.

What caused this question was when I checked Anandtech Bench for (A) Athlon X2 6000+ and (B) Athlon II X3 435, I get the following.

Fallout 3 A-76 B-79 fps
Left for Dead A-93.5 B-97 fps
Farcry 2 A-33.5 B-40 fps
Crysis Warhead A-58.5 B-69 fps

A lot of people think the X3 is a nice budget gaming cpu. How can anyone say that his cpu is holding back a 8800 gt or 4850 is incomprehensible to me. I get the impression that some individuals just throw out that statement.

 

[DarkTXKnight]

ok so i have all my parts together. it there a quick benchmark I can run on the current (X2 6000\8800GS ) setup so that I can compare it to the new (X3 \ HD5770 ) setup ?

Also since Im switching from Nvidia to AM , what can I use to cleanly remove the old graphics driver from this build. I do not want to reinstall windows .

 

[Loop2kil]

You can use a program called Driver Sweeper to clean out the old driver crap.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/Guru3D---Driver-Sweeper-%28Setup%29-download-1655.html

 

[jiffylube1024]

5770 for $119 shipped AR
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814161338

GTS450 for $117.50 shipped AR
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814125342

GTX460 for $144 shipped AR
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814500173

Of those 3 the GTX 460 is an absolute no brainer. It smokes the 5770 and GTS 450, doesn't consume too much power, and is the quitest and coolest card on the market today (or thereabouts).