Will a winchester 3000+ optimize a 6800gt.

karma4jake

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So I've got $1200 to spend on a pc so if I go with a 6800gt all I can afford for the CPU is a 3000+ Winchester. Will this CPU run the video at close to what its capable of. I don't want to get them only to find out the gt can only run at 75% of its capability because the CPU is bogging it down, it'd be a waste of $$$.
 

ts3433

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It may be a slight bottleneck, but probably you'll probably get nothing worse than 85 or 90% of the performance. At higher resolutions, your GPU will be the main bottleneck anyway. If you need to, Winchesters overclock very well and very easily.
 

Quino

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It is going to depend at what resolution you play. Anything above 1280 should be gpu bottlenecked. I was testing how high I was able to push the htt on my abit and I set the the multiplier to 5 and the htt to 260 and I benched Doom 3 with my gt. At 2250 mhz I get 50 fps with the cpu running at 1300 mhz i got 44 fps. the 3000 runs at 1800 so you should be fine. Also you should be able to oc easily to 2.2 at least :)