E4500 bottleneck a 8800GT?

[Jules]

Anyone know if it does?

 

[taltamir]

Such a question always depends on the game... but I would say that it does NOT for the vast majority, if not all of them.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: MyStupidMouth
Anyone know if it does?

it does

at least for a 2900xt or a 8800GTS the botteneck appears to disappear over 2.5 or 2.6 Ghz

 

[Jules]

Originally posted by: taltamir
Such a question always depends on the game... but I would say that it does NOT for the vast majority, if not all of them.

Great thanks for the info

 

[adlep]

You can alway overclock the thing and puff... problem is gone.
At least 1066MHz fsb setting should not be a problem for those puppies.

 

[Stumps]

At stock speeds a small bottleneck might exist (not enougth to really hold back a 8800GT), but it pretty much disappears when you overclock beyond 2.6ghz...not that a C2D at any clockspeed is much of a bottleneck anyway.

 

[hans007]

according to anands UT3 cpu performance review, at lesat for UT3 anyway, a e6550 was about all that you really needed to get th emost out of an 8800gtx (which is more than an 8800gt).


the e4500 in taht reviwe was not quite as fast as the e6550 (i think it was like 20% slower), but i'd say it was close enough that you probably shouldnt worry about it. and if youo/c then it wont matter at all.