Bottlenecking

[mayorredbeard]

Quick question.
I gotta 2.4 ghz processor -- not too good.
I gotta radeon 9800 pro with 128 mb ddr. Will this bottleneck, like i dont get top peformance from my graphics card?

 

[airiox]

what is your cpu type? a p4 p3 celeron athlon?

 

[mayorredbeard]

intel pentium 4

 

[airiox]

There sholdnt be huge bottleneck, What do you mean top peformance.

 

[mayorredbeard]

well i know if you got a bad processor and a good graphics card many times it will bottleneck. What im asking is will it now bottleneck with the processor that i have? Just hoping i didnt waste my money on a new graphics card.

 

[rakedog]

Well I have a 1.8 Celron on this laptop and a 128mb ATI 9600+ Pro. And I can run HL2 and CS:S great. So I doubt you'll have much more of a problem. the 9800 doesn't radically differ from the 9600.

 

[TibsBeatAll]

No, you will not have a bottlenek.
the Radeon 9800 pro ain't that high end of a card. It's a good card, but a 2.4 won't bottleneck it.

Or, the bottleneck will be so minscule u won't notice it. I mean, of course it'll help if you OC ur processor to speeds of 2.8, but it's not that big of a problem.

a 2.4 and a 6800 is a bottlenek