Will a AMD Athlon X2 @ 3.0GHz bottleneck a GTX 560 ti?

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PCgeezer96

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Hello everyone and thank you for looking at this post.

Basically, I want to upgrade my graphics card from my old ATI Radeon 4670 512MB which is now quite old, and I want to be able to play my games such as ARMA II and Microsoft Flight Simulator X on higher settings and as I now have the money to be able to purchase a 560 Ti, I just need to know if my processor will bottleneck the graphics card.

Thank you.
 
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Short answer, yes. You'll still probably be able to turn up settings and resolution, but you'll almost never get the full potential of the card.
 
Termie

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A better match for your system would be an HD7750. It can be had for around $90 and will be close to twice as fast as your 4670 without being significantly bottlenecked.
 
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Honestly you won't be too happy with your upgrade. Either upgrade the CPU first or both together.
 
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Termie said:
A better match for your system would be an HD7750. It can be had for around $90 and will be close to twice as fast as your 4670 without being significantly bottlenecked.
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I would recommend a hd7770. Its about25% faster and can be had for less than 100dollars on sale. I think that CPU could feed a 7770. Anything higher and the cpu will become limiting
 
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I also feel like a 7770 is a good choice. Its close too the 560 non to in performance but uses less power. The price difference in the 7770 and 7750 is marginal. What resolution?
 
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the old Athlon 64 X2 cpus? yikes that will be a massive bottleneck and a general limitation too.
 
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frozentundra123456 said:
I would recommend a hd7770. Its about25% faster and can be had for less than 100dollars on sale. I think that CPU could feed a 7770. Anything higher and the cpu will become limiting
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p_monks33 said:
I also feel like a 7770 is a good choice. Its close too the 560 non to in performance but uses less power. The price difference in the 7770 and 7750 is marginal. What resolution?
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sorry but you guys are way off base. an A64 X2 would not even come close to fully pushing a 7770. resolution does not matter much here for many games because again that cpu will limit playability in general no matter what gpu is used anyway.

plus he mentioned ARMA II and Microsoft Flight Simulator X so he will get little to no improvement going with a faster gpu than he has now in games like that.
 
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toyota said:
sorry but you guys are way off base. an A64 X2 would not even come close to fully pushing a 7770. resolution does not matter much here for many games because again that cpu will limit playability in general no matter what gpu is used anyway.

plus he mentioned ARMA II and Microsoft Flight Simulator X so he will get little to no improvement going with a faster gpu than he has now in games like that.
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Exactly. I suggested the 7750 because it would only be somewhat bottlenecked. Any more money spent, even $10 more on a 7770, is wasted.

And to be honest, as toyota mentions here, Arma and Flight Simulator are probably already cpu bottlenecked.

So I would revise my recommendation to ask the OP whether he's willing to upgrade his system at this time.
 
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Don't waste your time. At one point I had an 8800 GTX paired with an Athlon X2 6400+ (3.2 Ghz). When I finally built a new PC with a Phenom II X4 955 I couldn't believe the performance increase in my games (about 1/3 greater FPS with better quality settings) using the same old 8800 GTX. Sad to stay, but your PC is pretty well balanced as it is.
 
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OP, I have a X2 5000+ BE used in a small bitcoin mining setup.
Fired up some games on it (with a 5830) just for kicks, and boy was it struggling, even when overclocked to 3.2GHz.

Was really hoping to use it as a hot spare system, but with DDR2, insufficient IPC and overall speed, tossed it on eBay and replaced it with an old 4GHz E5200 DDR3 hackintosh's guts instead. Much better.
 
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Is OP talking about an Athlon II X2 250 or something? Because that CPU was actually pretty good price/perf and only slightly slower than a E8400@stock, which was plenty powerful. Many games are still not really multithreaded much, like SC2. If OP was talking about the Athlon II X2 250 then anything up to a 7770 should be fine.
 
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WOW! I cannot believe how many responses I've had, and thank you so much for all your advice.

Based on the advice put forward, do you think I'd benefit more from a CPU upgrade, or a graphics card upgrade? What processors are there that have an AM2+ socket that are better than my current one, that will cost no more than £150?

Thank you very much guys,all help is really appreciated.
 
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PCgeezer96 said:
Do you think i would get a considerable increase from purchasing one of these?

http://www.pcupgrade.co.uk/productdetails.asp?productid=6324&categoryid=562
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isn't that price to high for such an old CPU?
the 940 doesn't even work with AM3 boards (DDR3), while something like a 945 would work with AM2+ and AM3 boards....

also Athlon II X2 is AM3 (compatible with AM2+).
edit: wait, if you have the older Athlon X2 (Athlon 64 X2, it can only be a 6000+ at 3GHz), than there is a good chance your MB don't support any newer CPU (even the 940 or Phenom 1)
 
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When i upgraded from a 4830 to a 5850 i saw almost no performance increase at the same settings.This is with an x2 240@3.78 GHz,upgrading to a 955 x4 doubled that performance.
 
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