• Question about bottlenecking - will it happen to my system?
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So, in my time I had been banned for 7 days (after I have been stupid and bumped a thread by accident), I have been busy looking for a new GPU. I have found the Club 3D Radeon HD 7950 (royalking version), my first question is: Will the rest of my computer bottleneck this GPU? And my second question, is Club 3D a reliable manufacturer? This is my first time I'm considering Club 3D. Current system specifications CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Motherboard: ASRock M3A770DE HDD: Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 RAM: 6 GB of DDR3 (mix of Corsair and Icidu RAM modules) Current GPU: ASUS Radeon HD 6670 (it's terrible, don't get this chip) PSU: Cooler Master GX Lite 600w (I have checked if 600w is sufficient, with a new GPU it's roughly 500w load. I will be happy to provide more information when required.
Club 3d is ok. And Yes it will bottleneck. This doesn't mean you shouldn't get it though, it still means you can play CPU intensive games at higher settings. Your max fps will just be limited by your CPU.
[QUOTE=taipan;41237206]Club 3d is ok. And Yes it will bottleneck. This doesn't mean you shouldn't get it though, it still means you can play CPU intensive games at higher settings. Your max fps will just be limited by your CPU.[/QUOTE] With how much FPS will / could it be limited by the CPU? The age of this CPU is still bothering me. Point is I'm sick of my ASUS Radeon 6670, plays some games fairly good, but I have to set them at medium in order to make games playable. But on Metro 2033 for example I get a bare 15 FPS which is annoying.
i got the 7950, its a beast. Metro at max graphics (without supersampling) runs smooth at 50 - 60+ fps, if you overclock it. But will you cpu bottleneck it? i'm not sure, but it won't be a huge bottleneck. It depends on the game. cpu demanding games like gta 4 will definitely be bottlenecked, but will still be playable with high graphics (im talking from personal experience, i got a amd 4170 which is < than your phenom). You should definitely buy it. The bottleneck won't be very big, if not minimal. Plus, a cpu upgrade in the future will give your machine extra power.
True, I definitely should upgrade to a new CPU in the future. The problem is however I'm low on money right now but it should take about 4/8 pay checks (which is about 37/47 euro's within four weeks) until I can buy it, I mostly have been looking for a new GPU, and research on system compatibility (this thread is part of my research). This thread is as good as solved, thanks for the help!
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