I currently have a P4 Single Core Prescott at 3.82GHZ

Hajpoj

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I'm soon to be gaming on a 1680x1050 Screen and I'm wondering if an upgrade is necessary.

It's a P4 561 3.6 @ 3.82GHZ and I'm wondering if this will bottleneck me in current single threaded games?

I'm considering an 8800 series card...

 

Hajpoj

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Am I going to be GPU limited regardless at that resolution with 4x AA and 16 X ASS?
 

swtethan

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16x ass? thats a lot of ass!

yes you will be cpu limited on multi threaded games....
 

lyssword

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at 4x 16af 1650x1080, you'll be gpu limited, yes. Although p4 does really suck for games, it's still about as good as 2.4 ghz a64 single core :)
 

Hulk

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Originally posted by: lyssword
at 4x 16af 1650x1080, you'll be gpu limited, yes. Although p4 does really suck for games, it's still about as good as 2.4 ghz a64 single core :)

Or about as good as an 2.0GHz C2D.
 

apoppin

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we tested it in Video ... a 3.0Ghz P4 does bottleneck a x1950p

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=y&keyword1=bottleneck

i tested with my P4 2.80c @ 3.31Ghz and my P4 3.4EE @ 3.74Ghz and with my e4300 - all with x1950p/512MB [and later testing with HD2900XT]

STALKER and FEAR - with maxed in-game settings 4xAA/16xAF - x1950p was rather bottlenecked by my 2.80C @ 3.31Ghz and somewhat bottlenecked by my P4 3.4EE @ 3.74 Ghz with x1950p/512M - their minimum frame rates dropped below 30FPS at 14x9 - and it was not bottlenecked with my C2D at all ... all above 30FPS. With my P4 at 3.74Ghz i could enable more settings over the 3.31Ghz P4 using the same GPU!

My HD 2900 XT is rather bottlenecked by my e4300 at stock 1.8G [about the same as bottlenecked by an overclocked P4 3.4EE] but is not bottlenecked when e4300 is clocked over about 2.8 Ghz - 3.0Ghz

so in conclusion ... the 8800 GTX will be bottlenecked by your P4, the 8800 GTS less so at 10x16
 

Arkaign

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Yep. Build a new box with P35 mobo, 2gb ddr2-800, and a 2140/2160 overclocked, or even better, an E6750 or so. Should be able to build a decent spare box from your old P4 stuff, sell it and recoup most/all of your $$.
 

evolucion8

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Actually in multi threaded games you can get some boost performance, look at Quake 4, the Pentium 4 was able to get a performance boost of up to 20%, with Pentium 4 with larger caches like the EE, the boost is higher.