Will Q6600 bottleneck 4870

[Blackfirevatsal]

Guys i plan to pair Q6600 & 4870 together, will Q6600 bottleneck 4870?

 

[angry hampster]

I don't understand why bottlenecking has become such a popular term on here in the last few months. Put a system together, clock the CPU and the GPU to the max, and play some damn games.




To answer your question, yes, at 800x600 the q6600 will bottleneck the hell out of a 4870. You're going to need at least a QZX@9837 to fix that problem.

 

[coreyb]

are you kidding me?

 

[betasub]

Bottleneck, schmottleneck.

Absolute lack of info in OP: there is always a limiting factor/component in a system, but it will vary depending on game/app, resolution/detail etc.


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Edit: for spelling.

 

[chrismr]

If you leave the Q6600 at stock then some games will be severely limited. Clock it to at least 3GHz.

 

[udneekgnim]

don't know about 4870 but 4870x2 are bottle necked by the best available CPUs right now

 

[Munky]

It won't be a bottleneck unless you spend more time running benches than playing games. I'd just as easily pair a 4870 with my Opty 165 if my 8800gt starts choking at 1920x1200.

 

[KeypoX]

Originally posted by: betasub
Bottleneck, schmottleneck.

hehe

 

[Hauk]

Originally posted by: chrismr
If you leave the Q6600 at stock then some games will be severely limited. Clock it to at least 3GHz.

+1

 

[edplayer]

Originally posted by: angry hampster
I don't understand why bottlenecking has become such a popular term on here in the last few months.

thats easy

You have been a registered member for less than a year.

It hasn't become popular the last few months. Its been popular for YEARS.

 

[AzN]

Originally posted by: edplayer

Originally posted by: angry hampster
I don't understand why bottlenecking has become such a popular term on here in the last few months.

thats easy

You have been a registered member for less than a year.

It hasn't become popular the last few months. Its been popular for YEARS.

Not true. Recently people have been mentioning this quite often within the last year as if modern CPU would be bottleneck by a modern GPU when they are getting 100fps. This term bottleneck came from matching old cpu with modern GPU and getting no performance gains from higher end GPU's.

Correct term would be limiting. Then again all CPU's and GPU's are limited to an extent.

 

[Blackfirevatsal]

thank your your replies guys. bye

 

[Spike]

It does always seem like an odd idea to be worried about. I was using my older Opteron 165 setup to play games recently and noticed my ability to play WiC and UT3 was limited... I borrowed an 8800GTS 512 from another pc and what do you know, they all played great at 1680x1050. Sure, if I put a faster CPU in there the games would play even better. But then the gpu might be slowing it down so I would need a faster one of those. Then the ram might be a problem so I would need faster/more of that and so on and so forth.

As Azn said, all the components will be limiting to a certain extent. There are definitly better matchups of components that will give you the best gaming performance but it's very hard to find a situation where uprading x part of your computer won't give you a boost, hence the term upgrade. About the only thing thats probably not worth upgrading is that old floppy drive you still have around... those aren't getting much faster these days.

 

[angry hampster]

Originally posted by: edplayer

Originally posted by: angry hampster
I don't understand why bottlenecking has become such a popular term on here in the last few months.

thats easy

You have been a registered member for less than a year.

It hasn't become popular the last few months. Its been popular for YEARS.

Does that make it any more relevant? I mean, if you're pairing a Q6600 with the 4870, you might as well call it the "que suxty-sux hundred."



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