Upgrading to 9800gt, will I be CPU limited by a e4300?

[rpf717rpf]

My setup

C2D e4300 (not overclocked)
2gb Corsair XM2
9800gt

Want to play Crysis / Fallout 3 etc. .

Will I be CPU limited? Would overclocking the e4300 be enough or should I upgrade? If I do upgrade would a e7300 be plenty of CPU?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions!

 

[adlep]

stock E4300 will limit you.
Sell your C2D for $30.00 so that you cost of upgrade to the new processor will be lower.
Also, make sure that your motherboard supports 45nm (Wolfdale) cored C2Ds.
In addition, why wouldn't you try to o/c the E4300 a bit? Mine hit 1066MHz fsb with ease on default v core.
2.4 GHz E4300 should be enough to be able to play Crysis (mine was)...

 

[nyker96]

yes seond the prev poster. either you get a better CPU at stock like e8400/8500/8600s or just overclock it to 3 or so.

 

[error8]

Overclock your e4300 to at least 3 ghz and you'll be fine for that 9800GT.

 

[MarcVenice]

Silly people. My x2 3800+ @ 2.6ghz chugs along just fine in fallout 3. Crysis being the gpu whore it is will not be bottlenecked much by a e4300. Having that said, those e4300's should OC pretty easily, to at least 2.6ghz on stock cooling. Give it a try?

 

[rpf717rpf]

Thanks for the suggestions folks!

I've never overclocked before. It seems easy enough. I need to bite the bullet and give it a try.

thanks again

 

[nyker96]

Originally posted by: rpf717rpf
Thanks for the suggestions folks!

I've never overclocked before. It seems easy enough. I need to bite the bullet and give it a try.

thanks again

oh if you are overclocking, you need to get a new after market cooler like Xigmatec S1283. don't want you to burn anything out.

 

[Ares202]

No, that cpu should handle the 9800gt nicely, unless you play CPU heavy games (Supcom COH etc)

 

[Elstumpo]

I had an E4300 before I replaced it. At stock running 1280x1024 my favorite MMO I had to turn all the graphics down to low. With the faster cpu I can play the game on high.

 

[Elstumpo]

I had an E4300 before I replaced it. At stock running 1280x1024 my favorite MMO I had to turn all the graphics down to low. With the faster cpu I can play the game on high.

 

[vj8usa]

Originally posted by: nyker96

Originally posted by: rpf717rpf
Thanks for the suggestions folks!

I've never overclocked before. It seems easy enough. I need to bite the bullet and give it a try.

thanks again

oh if you are overclocking, you need to get a new after market cooler like Xigmatec S1283. don't want you to burn anything out.

He doesn't NEED a new cooler. The stock HSF will limit his max OC for sure, but you should still get a decent boost.

 

[NoSoup4You]

I have an old AMD X2, even at stock 2.2Ghz it's more than enough to run most games at max settings. Would I have better performance with an 45nm Intel chip? Absolutely. But when gaming at 1600x1200 there's more of a gpu bottleneck than anything else.

 

[mentalcrisis00]

running my 9800gt on AND X2 2.2 GHZ as well and 4x 512mb DDR ram, I can run everything but crysis on high with reasonable to great frames.