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HIS X1950 PRO 512MB - Bottleneck ?

Ironside

Ironside

Ironside

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hello there

i am buying HIS X1950 PRO 512MB and i have a p4 3ghz cpu.
would my processor bottleneck the cards performance.
if you have any knowledge on this subject that would help me please let me hear your opinions ----------- thx in advance
 
Which type of p4 do you have cos my mate has a p4 and i think it was 3ghz stock and clocked it to 4ghz. So if you can oc then you will be ok.
 
A northwood or a prescott?

s478 scotts usually clock upto 3.9/4 ghz and northwoods to 3.6ghz.

There may be bottleneck but not major, i dont think you'lll notice huge diffs...
 
sure it'll bottleneck it a little. but it's still a damn fine upgrade and you'll love the details/settings you'll now be able to crank up. providing you don't have a huge monitor that is...... :p

what card are you upgrading from? :)
 
Ironside said:
SkeeterPSA could you tell me how your mate oc his cpu and what programs/utilities he used
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I didnt use any programs except to check voltages&temps&stability, as for the overclocking itself i did that only in bios (i did this on an ASUS p4c800 deluxe (intel 875 canterwood chipset) ) :

Set Ram speed to 333 ( puts ram on a divider, 5:4 FSB:Ram )
Raise Vcore to 1.475
Then just raised FSB and it was prime stable for the whole night (8 hours at a guess)... (prime 95= a program that stresses the cpu 100% and tests it it doesnt make any errors when calculating, if its stable...)

Thats what i can renember, might have missed some minor tweaks, sorry its been some time ago since i was on s478, now on lga775....

exept that i renember optimizing most bios stuff with this site:
http://www.techarp.com/bog.aspx

If its a scott keep it under 65C, above might give instability problems, although it wont kill your cpu ( had mine on 76C for a sec and it was often 72C for hours when gaming) but it does cause reboots or crashes...

Programs for temps&voltages:
Everest (i highly recommend this one)
Asus probe (for if you have an asus mobo)
speedfan

Voltage&cpu identifier ( also says what revision and family etc...):
CPU-Z
 
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having read through the thread again you need a new psu i think, a scott drinks a lot of power at stock and more when overclocked.

Ulfhedjinn:
True, but you have a core 2 duo, wich uses 60 or was it 65 watts on stock, a prescott uses 90 watts...
You have ddr 2, wich uses less power than the ddr 1 all socket 478 boards use.


So ironside, if you notice problems while the vcore and temp of your cpu is ok, i think u may need a new psu...
 
snowdog said:
Ulfhedjinn:
True, but you have a core 2 duo, wich uses 60 or was it 65 watts on stock, a prescott uses 90 watts...
You have ddr 2, wich uses less power than the ddr 1 all socket 478 boards use.
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This PSU used to also run a Newcastle 3400+, 2GB DDR400 and an X1800XT @ 730/900 (and X1900XT @ XT-X) too. Not to mention the hard disks and multitude of crap (LED fans, cold cathode tubes, etc.) I had in that PC at the time.

Trust me, it's enough.
 
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