CPU Bottleneck

[deamer44]

4870, q6600 (stock)

would the bottleneck occur first within the cpu or the gpu?

THanks Tom

 

[betasub]

Game/app? Resolution?

Name your benchmark & test conditions, or your question is meaningless.

 

[mhouck]

Originally posted by: betasub
Game/app? Resolution?

Name your benchmark & test conditions, or your question is meaningless.

+1

What resolution?
Are you choosing between overclocking or the new gpu?

 

[AzN]

It's not called bottleneck in these type of situations. It would be called limitation. Sure your fps would be a little better at high frequencies in resolutions where it would benefit but majority would be limited by your gpu.

Bottleneck is when you sees no benefit from faster GPU.

Anyway games won't be slow with your system so you have nothing to worry about.

 

[chizow]

Originally posted by: deamer44
4870, q6600 (stock)

would the bottleneck occur first within the cpu or the gpu?

THanks Tom

Upgrade the GPU first, but consider upgrading the CPU or OC'ing it before adding another GPU in CF or upgrading again.

 

[dakels]

I think you need to understand why or how these bottlenecks occur and you will change your question. The type of information the game/app has to deal with will often spell where the limitation will occur.