Intel Pentium D 2.66 GHZ CPU Bottlneck for BFG 8800 GTX OC ?

[guy93]

Would The Intel Pentium D 2.66 GHZ CPU Bottlneck for BFG 8800 GTX OC ? Also using 2 GB Ram, XP pro, ocz 600 watt psu.

 

[cmdrdredd]

yes but at least with some games you could have a pretty decent experience. Don't expect miracles

 

[Andrew1990]

The Pentium D 805 can be overclocked to around 3.6GHz with minimul effort. I use to use one as my main proc when they were released. I had it at 3.2 on an ECS P4M800-Pro so it should be able to go higher on other boards. Even at 3.6, it would still bottleneck some.

 

[guy93]

im just into playing steam games, especially cs:s

 

[angry hampster]

You don't need an 8800GTX for Source-based games.

 

[guy93]

im gtn it free neways im jus waitin for an 8 pin pci-e connector and when that comes in , im set

 

[will889]

With P4 2.66 a and source games a 7900GT/7950GT/X1950/X1950XT pro would do.

 

[guy93]

I have a dell pc so i dont think i can overclock my cpu to make it better, but like i said b4, id take the free 8800 rather than buyin a card

 

[Tempered81]

http://www.tomshardware.com/ch...-q1-2008/Prey,387.html
stock pentium D 920 @ 2800mhz: 66 FPS
stock core 2 E8400 @ 3000mhz: 124 FPS

http://www.tomshardware.com/ch...eme-Commander,397.html
stock pentium D 920 @ 2800mhz: 10 FPS
stock core 2 E8400 @ 3000mhz: 51 FPS

 

[NoSoup4You]

The 8800GTX will definitely be bottlenecked, but you'll still be able to play CS:S and other Source games at max settings. Let us know how it runs once you install it.