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Bottleneck question.

nitram100

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So, I finally upgraded the old 5850 and will be getting my new 7950 tomorrow. I am slightly worried however that my CPU will be a huge bottleneck.

What do you guys think, will it be a massive bottleneck? It is only running at stock speeds so could OC it as I have a decent cooler.

Cheers,
 
Ok thanks for the input guys!

Just got the 7950 up and running and it does look as though there is a bottleneck, although I am not sure if it is that bad.

CPU usage in a 64 player Caspian Border game is hovering at 90% constantly and GPU usage doesn't really go above 63%, does that indicate a bottleneck?

If so, what would be my options? Would overclocking this CPU really make that much of a difference or should I just upgrade to Ivy Bridge and be done with it.

On a positive note, the card is amazing. At only 40% fan speed on auto the temp didn't go above 55C on Caspian Border and that is in a small Lian Li case.
 
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HankScorpio said:
I had a 955 @ 3.6 and it caused a bottleneck in some games.
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Ok thanks mate. Can I just ask though, I know that the general consensus is that Bulldozer isn't very good, but are there any decent AM3+ chips that I could throw in my board that would alleviate the bottleneck somewhat?

I just loaded up Skyrim and the bottleneck was a lot less, although it did look like 1 core was maxing out the GPU usage was higher at about 70-75%.

Thanks guys,
 
HankScorpio said:
I had a 955 @ 3.6 and it caused a bottleneck in some games.
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You have the exact same CPU and motherboard that I am currently looking at for an Ivy Bridge upgrade.

In all honesty, did you think the whole switch was worth it?

Do you mind me asking which games you noticed an increase in with the new CPU?

Cheers,

Martin
 
Yeh mate, thinking if I am going to go changing motherboard and CPU I might aswell go the full hog and future proof myself as much as I can.

Will try and get about 70 quid for my CPU and motherboard and put that towards the Ivy Bridge upgrade.
 
HankScorpio said:
From using a 955 with a 7970 I noticed pretty bad performance in multiplayer bf3, dipped to 25-30 fps on wake island and skyrim was pretty choppy. Other games like starcraft 2 there was no difference since that ran 60 fps+ on my old 5770. The witcher 2 also was heavily choppy on AMD cpu and runs pretty smooth now.

I was able to sell my 955 for 67 quid and mobo for 45 which helped the upgrade.
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Nice one mate, you have me convinced! Now to find my boxes for the CPU and Motherboard so I can sell em :)
 
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