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[jtvang125]

Currently on a 4850 512MB but want to upgrade to a 4890 1GB in anticipation of ArmA II and OFP2. Gonna up the memory to 4gb too.

I'm sure there's going to be some bottleneck but it shouldn't be that bad right?

 

[yh125d]

Maybe a bit, but probably not too bad. Nothing too drastic. I'd still go for the upgrade. If you feel it's holding you back though its easy as hell to overclock to 3-3.2


Although I don't know how CPU intensive ARMA or OFP2 are

 

[brblx]

you should be okay, but you'll be doing a good bit better if you overclock. >3ghz is doable with stock cooling and no voltage increase.

 

[error8]

ARMA II dies without a quad core, so you'll probably have poor performance with it, even with the cpu clocked higher. Your 4890 will be bottlenecked in 90% of the games, by the stock clocked E7200.
But really, keeping an E7200 at stock is not sexy at all. 3.6-3.8 ghz are easy to attain. You don't even need super macho ram and motherboard for that oc.

 

[MagickMan]

Depends on when he bought that e7200. I had to go through 4 of them before I found one that would break 3.5GHz at a safe voltage (1.4v).

However, 3GHz should be easy for any VID.

 

[yh125d]

Originally posted by: MagickMan
Depends on when he bought that e7200. I had to go through 4 of them before I found one that would break 3.5GHz at a safe voltage (1.4v).

However, 3GHz should be easy for any VID.

That sounds... very unlucky. Are you sure you weren't missing something?

 

[error8]

Originally posted by: yh125d

Originally posted by: MagickMan
Depends on when he bought that e7200. I had to go through 4 of them before I found one that would break 3.5GHz at a safe voltage (1.4v).

However, 3GHz should be easy for any VID.

That sounds... very unlucky. Are you sure you weren't missing something?

Yes, that is weird.

 

[manimal]

Originally posted by: error8

Originally posted by: yh125d

Originally posted by: MagickMan
Depends on when he bought that e7200. I had to go through 4 of them before I found one that would break 3.5GHz at a safe voltage (1.4v).

However, 3GHz should be easy for any VID.

That sounds... very unlucky. Are you sure you weren't missing something?

Yes, that is weird.

I am not surprised at all. It took me 5 Q6600s to get two that did 3.6 at sane voltages, 4 e8400s to get one that did 4ghz at at sane voltages as well.

 

[Tempered81]

Originally posted by: yh125d
its easy as hell to overclock to 3-3.2

+1 You could probably get 3.6 easily.

 

[dfuze]

I'm running a e7200 with an easy overclock to 3.1 with the stock cooler no problem. I just ordered a 4890 as well (comes Friday) so I'm in the same boat.

 

[toyota]

Originally posted by: dph1077
I'm running a e7200 with an easy overclock to 3.1 with the stock cooler no problem. I just ordered a 4890 as well (comes Friday) so I'm in the same boat.

at 1920x1200 your cpu would be fine at 3.1 with a 4890. you will easily get 95%+ of what the 4890 can do. if you were at stock cpu speeds and/or a lower res then of course it would be a little more of an issue.

 

[RaptureMe]

Yes it will bottleneck the crap out of that card.
You are going to want to either overclock the hell out of it or upgrade to a cheap quadcore.
Those are the only options I can see that will help out if you actually decide to buy it.

 

[yh125d]

Originally posted by: toyota

Originally posted by: dph1077
I'm running a e7200 with an easy overclock to 3.1 with the stock cooler no problem. I just ordered a 4890 as well (comes Friday) so I'm in the same boat.

at 1920x1200 your cpu would be fine at 3.1 with a 4890. you will easily get 95%+ of what the 4890 can do. if you were at stock cpu speeds and/or a lower res then of course it would be a little more of an issue.

I think you may have a slightly incorrect view of CPU power and low resolutions. When all other settings stay unchanged, and you lower the res, it's not that the CPU is having to work harder than at the higher res, its just that the GPU is becoming less of a factor which lets you notice that the CPU may be holding you back. Running a lower res isn't tougher on the CPU, its just more easier on the GPU


I hope that made sense, not sure

 

[yh125d]

Originally posted by: RaptureMe
Yes it will bottleneck the crap out of that card.
You are going to want to either overclock the hell out of it or upgrade to a cheap quadcore.
Those are the only options I can see that will help out if you actually decide to buy it.

If it bottlenecks at all it definitely won't "bottleneck the crap out of" a 4890. The OP would still get the large majority of what a 4890 is capable. The e7200 is no slouch, even at stock speeds.



You're giving advice about bottlenecking, but you run a 4gHz i7 with an 8800GT?

 

[toyota]

Originally posted by: yh125d

Originally posted by: toyota

Originally posted by: dph1077
I'm running a e7200 with an easy overclock to 3.1 with the stock cooler no problem. I just ordered a 4890 as well (comes Friday) so I'm in the same boat.

at 1920x1200 your cpu would be fine at 3.1 with a 4890. you will easily get 95%+ of what the 4890 can do. if you were at stock cpu speeds and/or a lower res then of course it would be a little more of an issue.

I think you may have a slightly incorrect view of CPU power and low resolutions. When all other settings stay unchanged, and you lower the res, it's not that the CPU is having to work harder than at the higher res, its just that the GPU is becoming less of a factor which lets you notice that the CPU may be holding you back. Running a lower res isn't tougher on the CPU, its just more easier on the GPU


I hope that made sense, not sure

call it whatever you want but it doesnt change what I said one bit. at a lower res a slower cpu compared to a faster one wouldnt allow the 4890 to reach its full potential.

 

[yh125d]

Oh no I agree on the bottleneck bit

 

[MagickMan]

Originally posted by: yh125d

Originally posted by: MagickMan
Depends on when he bought that e7200. I had to go through 4 of them before I found one that would break 3.5GHz at a safe voltage (1.4v).

However, 3GHz should be easy for any VID.

That sounds... very unlucky. Are you sure you weren't missing something?

I've done this a lot, and nothing was missed. I must have went over the settings a 1000x. Some batches just sucked for OCing. The four previous were from the same batch and were dismal, which was fine because I just simply sold them to people who wouldn't be trying to OC at all. Several days later I ordered a single chip from Newegg and it was a different batch and it could hit 4GHz at safe voltages. It's all just luck of the draw.