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CPU performance ?

raza

raza

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Is the e8400 i have to run my systems components still powerful enough for gaming Operating system64-bit Microsoft Windows Vista (6.0.6002) (64-bit)
Mainboard : Asus P5E3 Deluxe Chipset :Intel X38
ProcessorIntel Core 2 Duo Processor E8400 Support :Socket 775 LGA Cache L2 :61442 Gigabyte Powercooler. OCZ 700 W , PCI X TV Card PCI SoundCard.
Processor clock3147 MHz
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
Hard Disk :Western Digital WD5001AALS-00L3B2 ATA Device (500GB)
Memory4096 MB
3DMark Score20166.09 3DMarks with lots of talk about new processors do i have a bottleneck around the cpu i must admit i get lag on the most intensive game levels and i have 8 gig of Corsair Vengence 1866 stashed away but any upgrade would be for the GPU benefits a budget of £100 mobo and say £130 cpu (retail) hahahah but not a Bulldozer right geeze omg .
 
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first of all!

1866 on a core 2 duo cpu is impossible, it would just down to 800mhz or around there, the max a lga775 cpu can handle is ddr3 1333mhz which has to be done via the bios and a jumper on the motherboard or it will just end up running at 800mhz
 
CinderzFTW said:
first of all!

1866 on a core 2 duo cpu is impossible, it would just down to 800mhz or around there, the max a lga775 cpu can handle is ddr3 1333mhz which has to be done via the bios and a jumper on the motherboard or it will just end up running at 800mhz
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He has it stashed away he said.

OP, a SB build but be your best bet.


http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-360-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1275
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-364-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990

But that'd be a little over budget.
 
lag might be internet connection?

normally if i want to check if my cpu is stressed out

i play the game in window mode and look at the cpu meter.
same with ram usage

my core2duo running at stock 2.6ghz was max 100% when i was playing starcraft
so i bumped it to 3.5ghz and it was running about 90%

so monitor your cpu usage and you'll get a rough idea if it is bottlenecking.
 
raza said:
with lots of talk about new processors do i have a bottleneck around the cpu i must admit i get lag on the most intensive game levels and i have 8 gig of Corsair Vengence 1866 stashed away but any upgrade would be for the GPU benefits a budget of £100 mobo and say £130 cpu (retail) hahahah but not a Bulldozer right geeze omg .
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Your E8400 would definitely bottleneck the GTX480. If you could overclock the CPU to 4.5GHz, then the bottleneck would be not that much...but that's not gonna happen, since your motherboard is X38 chipset. The max overclock you can achieve on your existing board is probably 3.8GHz max.

Now if we talk about the i5 2500K, it tends to deliver around 10-15fps extra on the minimum frame rate comparing to Core2 in the situation same graphic card where there's no CPU bottleneck, so with your E8400 bottlenecking the GTX480, the performance gain by upgrading to i5 2500K would be even greater than that.

Have a look at this at the BFBC2 bench...your E8400 would be roughly around the speed of the Pentium G6950 and Phenom II X2 565:
http://techreport.com/articles.x/20873/2

Since you got the DDR3 RAM already, just grab the i5 2500K retail for £170:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-360-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1275
...and the Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 for £90:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-364-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990

If you think you might considering going SLI in the future, you could pay £15 extra on the motherboard and get this MSI Z68A-G45-B3:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-193-MS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990
...it will do Crossfire/SLI at x8/x8 (plus the 8 Channel HD Audio with THX TruStudio Pro onboard sound instead of the typical Realtek)...but the chances are you would need to upgrade you PSU to something like a decent 950W to SLI GTX480...so if you are not going dual-graphic cards in the future, just stick with the Gigabyte Z68AP-D3.
 
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Marine-RX179 said:
Your E8400 would definitely bottleneck the GTX480. If you could overclock the CPU to 4.5GHz, then the bottleneck would be not that much...but that's not gonna happen, since your motherboard is X38 chipset. The max overclock you can achieve on your existing board is probably 3.8GHz max.

Now if we talk about the i5 2500K, it tends to deliver around 10-15fps extra on the minimum frame rate comparing to Core2 in the situation same graphic card where there's no CPU bottleneck, so with your E8400 bottlenecking the GTX480, the performance gain by upgrading to i5 2500K would be even greater than that.

Just grab the i5 2500K retail for £170:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-360-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1275
...and the Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 for £90:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-364-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990
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Yo' copying my choices :p
 
ishoeyi said:
lag might be internet connection?

normally if i want to check if my cpu is stressed out

i play the game in window mode and look at the cpu meter.
same with ram usage

my core2duo running at stock 2.6ghz was max 100% when i was playing starcraft
so i bumped it to 3.5ghz and it was running about 90%

so monitor your cpu usage and you'll get a rough idea if it is bottlenecking.
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ok sound advice thanks the stepping on my e8400 dosent overclock at all well but yes.
 
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