What to expect with a 1900+ and 6800?

[fisheye]

My friend picked up the $199 6800 at compusa (actually, I was the one waiting in line - he had to work).
His CPU is an xp 1900+. An upgrade is imminent, to an xp2700-3000+. Until then, how much impact will the slower CPU have on gaming performance?

I would have installed it already (at about 7am on friday!) but his PC is currently unoperational for unknown reasons (likely RAM).

Seeing how he's coming from a radeon 8500, I think he's going to be impressed

 

[otispunkmeyer]

it will be good in the sense of free aa an af, that cpu is gonna hold it back alot i think, 6800's are cpu limited some times even with the fastest processors available

i think u can expect games like ut2004 to have the same frame rate regardless of resolution becuase the rest of the system jus cant keep up, the cpu upgrade couldnt come sooner

 

[WT]

You will definitely be able to turn on AA and AS and crank them as far as you want. This eliminates the 'jaggies' from games and will make for a much more realistic image. 2500s are cheap, so he bought a great card which will play any games out very well ... easy enough to upgrade to a Barton and o/c it to fix his bottleneck.

 

[zerocool84]

i had a 2000+ chip and now i have a 3200+ chip and let me tell you, it helped so much jumping to those speeds. i used to choke in hls and cs source cus i was way cpu limited and i have a bfg 6800 oc and would only run it at 1024x768 and i would still lag. trust me, ditch that old chip and get a newer much faster one