CPU cap my 8800's performance?

[Sawell]

Hi,

I'm after a bit of advice...

I'm running a AMD X2 4800+ with 7800GTX, 2gb corsair and am wanting to upgrade to a 8800GTX 7XXmb, having a (now) older performance cpu in comaprison to the core 2 duos... will it affect my ingame performance much? Is my CPU going to strain running full settings? How many FPS will I drop because of my prosessor?

I've always been under the impression that CPUs were really important in gaming, but I'm starting to think otherwise.

 

[Trusty]

To an extent they are important, but games really are gpu dependant!

Your x2 4800 shouldnt bottleneck it that much. Maybe a small amount but not much to worry about.

There is a big sense around that AMD are just plain rubbish compared to Intel now, which is not the case at all. The Amd 64 range is still a great gaming cpu.

 

[Sawell]

To an extent they are important, but games really are gpu dependant!

Your x2 4800 shouldnt bottleneck it that much. Maybe a small amount but not much to worry about.

There is a big sense around that AMD are just plain rubbish compared to Intel now, which is not the case at all. The Amd 64 range is still a great gaming cpu.

That's alright then.

How overclockable are 4800+'s? I heard they were pretty hard to please.

 

[pegasus1]

That's alright then.

How overclockable are 4800+'s? I heard they were pretty hard to please.

Depends on the Res your moniter is running at and the game. Some games are very very CPU dependantbut at least you can crank up the AA/AF at high resolutions with no impact to performance.

 

[A.N.Other]

You shouldn't see much difference tbh (if any). The 4800 is a very capable CPU. They don't clock brilliantly compared to the X2s further down the range (3800 for example), but you should be able to get 400-500 MHz out of it without too much hastle I would have thought.