will Pentium Dual Core 2.66 ghz bottle neck with Nvidia 8800 GT and Intel D101 M/b

[tech86]

hi!
Will Pentium Dual Core 2.66 ghz bottle neck with Nvidia 8800 GT and Intel D101 M/b
please tell??????

 

[ViRGE]

Although that CPU isn't particularly fast, it's not mismatched with that specific GPU. So no, you won't be appreciably bottlenecked.

 

[betasub]

Bottleneck, schmottleneck.

What is this fascination with the word "bottleneck" on ATforums?

OP's question is meaningless without stating an applicaton/game and resolution/detail setting.

 

[FalseChristian]

Originally posted by: tech86
hi!
Will Pentium Dual Core 2.66 ghz bottle neck with Nvidia 8800 GT and Intel D101 M/b
please tell??????

Absolutely not. Only if you had 2 8800GTs in SLI would that 2.66GHz Duo be the bottleneck.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

False, this is a Pentium D, not a Core2. It might bottleneck a little bit, but if the game is multi-threaded then it shouldn't really be a problem.

I'll tell you this though, when i upgraded from an AMD 3500+ (was a top single core) to the X2 4200+, single threaded applications such as counterstrike and day of defeat only gained 0-15fps. The only reason why a gain occurred is because the program only uses 50% of each processor to take advantage of double the L2 cache and because the rest of the CPU was there to do the idle window's tasks. The 4200+ is exactly two 3500+'s on one chip (2.2Ghz, 128k L1, 512K L2 per core).

So really, in older games it will be playing with a Pentium 4 2.66Ghz with an 8800GT.