BF2S Forums CPU bottlenecking

CrazeD wrote:

It should be fine.

SargeV1.4 wrote:

Mad Ad wrote:

bottleneck, seems to be this years stupid buzzword

but like many buzzwords it doesnt really mean a lot, buy what you can afford - theres always going to be a bottleneck somewere, even if you had the cash to buy the best of the best you will still be limited by platform bottlenecks.

doesnt mean a lot? I have an AMD 3000+ together with an x1950pro and it's bottleneck-o-rama: on high settings, I normally get 50-60, with frequent drops into 40, on medium its 40-50 and on low as well. While with my old x1600, I got the same FPS on high settings, but 70-80 on medium or low with it never really dropping below 60 (that goes for BF2 and CSS, at least)

Bottlenecks suck. Don't buy an overpowered videocard unless if you're going to upgrade your processors soon as well. I'm actually planning on selling off my x1950 and buying a more average system (nvidia 8600, intel 4300 (wtf doubles))

coke wrote:

Ok I understand that the graphics card is going to be bottlenecked by the CPU, but surely I will see a drastic improvement over my current setup. Going from a 2.5 Barton with 1.25g of ram and a 7600 GS (Agp) to a 3500+ 64 with 2g of ram and a decent PCI-e card such as the 8800 gts!!??

For example I should be able to run BF2 and 2142 on max settings at a good res right?

coke wrote:

Ok I understand that the graphics card is going to be bottlenecked by the CPU, but surely I will see a drastic improvement over my current setup. Going from a 2.5 Barton with 1.25g of ram and a 7600 GS (Agp) to a 3500+ 64 with 2g of ram and a decent PCI-e card such as the 8800 gts!!??

For example I should be able to run BF2 and 2142 on max settings at a good res right?

The#1Spot wrote:

coke wrote:

Ok I understand that the graphics card is going to be bottlenecked by the CPU, but surely I will see a drastic improvement over my current setup. Going from a 2.5 Barton with 1.25g of ram and a 7600 GS (Agp) to a 3500+ 64 with 2g of ram and a decent PCI-e card such as the 8800 gts!!??

For example I should be able to run BF2 and 2142 on max settings at a good res right?

I seriously doubt it. I would say you would get about 75% of he cards true potential

Mad Ad wrote:

coke wrote:

So surely I will get better performance even if only slightly out of the 8800 than I would out of the 1950 pro...

Exactly- its no big deal just buy what you can afford.

The whole of the pc is a bottleneck in one way or another.  When ram stops lagging behind and can run 1:1 at full cpu speed then thatll get rid of the ram bottleneck, and what about the drives, when that can dump data at the speed of a 1:1 fsb (faster than the current sata interface) then that will remove the data bottleneck, oh and that goes for network interfaces too- and the gfx of course we have to have that running at the same speed as the fsb or thatll be a bottleneck.

but all that wont be happening inside 10 years, never mind 20 - things are developed at different speeds yet people seem to be suddenly using this word bottleneck to mean small amounts of inefficiency in a big box full of inefficiencies.

Greenboi wrote:

If you want to take away some of the CPU bottleneck, try making ALL of the settings on high in the graphics control panel, it took some strain off of my cpu when it was at 1.86 (still fast, its a conroe) but now at 3.01 overclocked, its lightning.

Overclock the CPU with an aftermarket cooler, and max the graphics out to take strain off of the CPU a bit more

coke wrote:

I posted a few days ago asking for help on decidng which new card to buy I was considering a 1950 pro. But in the end I have decided to hold off for a couple of weeks to see firstly how the 8600 cards shape and also to see what ATI's new offerings are like and how they affect nvidia's pricing.
The reason I after a new card is that my friend has just upgraded his computer and I have bought some of his components off him. I going from a 2.5 Barton with 1.25g of ram and a 7600gs AGP, to a 3500+ 64 bit with 2g of ram and whatever graphics card I get.
Like I say after recently deciding against buying something like a 1950 pro, I am now looking more and more at spending a bit more and getting something like 8800gts 320mb.
So after reading some other recent posts on here, would the cpu badly bottleneck?? What sort of performance gain would I get from this compared to say a mid range X2 or something similar??
Even so I may still consider getting this card in terms of future proofing myself a bit more as I can later upgrade the cpu etc...

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2007-04-20 12:58:42)