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E8400 Bottlenecking GPU?

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I currently have a E8400 cpu and i'm looking to buy ether a 4870X2 or a 285GTX, will the cpu be enough not to bottleneck the card without any overclocking?
 
you should overclock it really. Even with an 8800gtx or something u will experience smoother frame rates with a higher clocked cpu. E8400 is capable of 4.0GHz easy without any risk whatsoever to the cpu. Keep the CPU below 1.38v and VTT/PLL voltages low and u it overclocks no probs. If you got an asus board i have screenies of my old settings for 4.2GHz before i went back to q6600
 
gurusan said:
Why would you not overclock?
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I guess mostly due to the fact i'm a newbie overclocker and i didn't want to damage the system.

And ye Jarman I got a P5Q mobo atm but no PSU/GPU or Ram, i was waiting to see the new TWO on Ocuk but it never came -.- . Some screenies for reference would be awesome if its no hassle.
 
Clock it to 4ghz and stop being a wuss. Easy as pie :)

It will limit it a bit at 3ghz, but not a massive amount.
 
You can't really damage the system.

Get a good cooler and you should easily be able to do 4ghz at the very least. It's free performance and the E8400 is one of the best overclocking CPUs out there!


Get a decent 4gb kit and solid PSU and you will be able to clock no problem.


For 4ghz you will need 450fsb and this ram will do the trick.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-116-CR&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=813

and this is not a bad psu for the money, will power a 4870x2 no problem
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-023-GI&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1096
 
I have an E8400 @ 4.2GHz (will also quite happily bench @4.5GHz) on a P35 board, and with the P45 being a better chip, 4.0GHz will be no sweat....;)
 
Never found Corsair to be that good overclocking ram these days, certainly not as good as it used to be, mind you 900 mhz should be obtainable with it, reckon Geil or OCZ would be a better bet.
 
I'd just go for the 4gb OCZ PC8500 here.

Not as tight timings but its half the price of the Corsair and timings mean so little on the C2D you'll notice zero difference.

It'll be good enough to get you to 500fsb should your chip allow as well.
 
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