a E6400 stock with a GTS

[tomanders91]

This is just a quick question for a friend who is buying a pre-built system from a different site. Would an E6400 at stock (he cant overclock it because of the 5300 ram and motherboard) be ok for a 8800GTS at 1280x1024 resoulotion? or what he get some severe bottlenecking at that res in gaming?

thanks.

 

[Defcon5]

it will be fine, theres no reason for anyone to be cpu limited, if you are, just force more AA/AF

 

[tomanders91]

ok thanks for the quick reply.

 

[easyrider]

A stock 6400 will bottleneck a 8800 GTS card period.

 

[tomanders91]

Any other opinions on this?

 

[jaykay]

it will bottleneck it but to a degree that you ll still be able to have all the eyecandy on max etc while staying above 60fps

 

[tomanders91]

oh well, he should be happy, all he plays is Oblvion and company of heroes, occasionally BF2.

 

[tomanders91]

Is an E6400 comparable to a X2 4600/5000 at stock ghz?

 

[Corasik]

Is an E6400 comparable to a X2 4600/5000 at stock ghz?

All depends on your application, if your purely talking gaming, in Far Cry, the E6400 will beat an FX62, Halflife it beats an X2-5000, In fear it bearly beats an X2-4600, and in Quake4 its somewhere between an X2-4200, and X2-4600.

Those tests were made by X-Bit labs, at 1024x768 to make sure it wasnt gpu bottlenecking, and to be honest, even the slowest Core2's will be enough power for an 8800GTX 'most' of the time, even at low resolution.

 

[Pants]

A stock 6400 will bottleneck a 8800 GTS card period.

Not if you turn up the res and AA / AF... like it should be on a card like this.

 

[aztechnology]

Is an E6400 comparable to a X2 4600/5000 at stock ghz?

That would be really test sensitive. My tests showd that a C2D e6300@ 2.6Ghz is a fair bit better than my Opteron 170 @ 2.8 when benchmarking.

When I actually play games though, I don't notice it.