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CPU bottleneck?

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Jus ran 3dmark 06 and am guessin my cpu is a big bottleneck? got a score of 4k

heres the specs

Pentium 4 3.0Ghz
2.5 gb ddr2 533
Some Intel motherboard
His IceQ 3850 512 gpu

Would going to a say e2160 , see much difference in this?
 
Well getting 85** points with extactly the same card but an X2 @2.53Ghz so it means that your CPU seems like is causing a bottleneck. Well if you want to upgrade then consider that you prolly need a new motherboard and RAM aswell but with the current price on RAM at the moment it seems like a nice options that will make your system much faster in OS and games aswell. You can get a dual-core that will be very good for almost everything but it all depends on the programs you are using. Can you shed a bit more information on what you are using your PC for?
 
You will see an improvement by how much it hard to say, the 2160 will be dual core
vs p4 single core + the benefit of the overclocking potential of the 2160 will blow the
p4 away.

You will need to check your motherboard can handle the 2160.

Rob
 
The current motherboard cant handle C2D :( so i'd have to upgrade that aswell :P

its mainly used for gaming an jus general everyday things, no decoding or anythink along thoes lines.
 
I just went from a AMD 4000+ sandy single core to a E2180. While it was not a mind blowing upgrade I will say my comp just runs tons smoother. From games to day to day tasks overall my comps just smooth and more responsive. If you have the cash get a decent P35 board (can get a pretty good board for 100US) and a E21xx with a couple gigs of the cheap ddr2 800 and you wont regret it.

My next upgrade is a new vid card and ill be set although my 1900XT 512 still does the job well.
 
Depends on the budget. A dual-core would be fine but if you are not upgrading too often and you wanna keep the new stuff you have for quite some time it would be wise spending a bit more and getting a quad-core and futureproofing your PC. There is not much point in having a quad-core at the moment with the things you are doing but more and more developers are starting to make use of more cores in games so that will help quite a bit in upcoming games i would say.
 
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