Pentium 4 bottlenecking my 6800GT?

[PeteRoy]

Do you think my Pentium 4 2.8Ghz bottlenecks my AGP 6800GT video card?

If I would have bought a AGP mainboard that has LGA 775 socket for Core 2 Quad, would I see a big benefit in games like Battlefield 2 using my 6800GT with a Core 2 Quad?

Thanks

 

[chizow]

Originally posted by: PeteRoy
Do you think my Pentium 4 2.8Ghz bottlenecks my AGP 6800GT video card?

If I would have bought a AGP mainboard that has LGA 775 socket for Core 2 Quad, would I see a big benefit in games like Battlefield 2 using my 6800GT with a Core 2 Quad?

Thanks

They're well balanced and wouldn't be worth upgrading individually, as you probably wouldn't see much difference either way if you did one and not the other.

There's not much upgrade that would make sense short of a complete system overhaul. Its a good time to do it now as memory, storage, cpu and even gpus are really cheap for almost top-of-the-line performance. Probably best to keep that rig intact as a legacy gaming machine/web browser and then look to start a new build.

 

[PeteRoy]

That's a good advice, I guess I am just being cheap.

 

[ajaidevsingh]

Or you can get a 3850 AGP and a E4xxx even those are quite well bal. and you will not have to spend a lot...!!

 

[Adam8281]

I doubt it's bottlenecking you quite yet. Until a month ago, I was using a P4 2.8C (Northwood) system that I built in 2000. A couple years ago when I upgraded from a 6600GT to an ATI X800XT PE, I noticed a HUGE difference. Obviously your 6800GT is faster than my 6600GT was, but still, the degree of leap I saw going to the X800 makes me suspect that you've got some room to go before your CPU bottlenecks your GPU.

 

[Denithor]

Don't know what your budget is but here's a sample of what you can build these days.

Intel e7200 (2.53GHz, 3MB cache) $120
Gigabyte EP35-DS3L $94
mushkin 2x1GB DDR2-800 $35AR
Western Digital 640MB $90
Antec Sonata III $100 (includes 500W Earthwatts powersupply)

Add the video card of your choice (8800GS for $90, 3870 for $115, 4850 for $150) and you're done for about $550-600. This will be a blazing fast system with excellent OC potential (many people hit 3.5GHz or higher with the e7200) that will run basically anything out there.