How do I get rid of my CPU bottleneck?

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Currently running:

Dual Core E5200 @ 3.6ghz
4 Gig Ram
GTX 480
600W Be Quiet! PSU
Gigabye G41M ES2L motherboard.

Just tested two cards a radeon 5850 and my gtx 480 - both cards get exactly the same FPS in Mafia 2 and Crysis benchmarks so it seems my cpu is limiting them both? How do I get rid of the CPU bottleneck all together? I want to do it as cheap as possible so would a cheap I5 or I3 and overclock it be the best option? Or is there a AMD cheaper alternative? Just for gaming needs and get rid of the CPU bottleneck. I'd get a Q6600 but I don't think it would make all that difference considering the E5200 is running at 3.6ghz so it maybe the same in some games which don't utilise 4 cores?
 
When are these new AMD's out?

Those benches don't really mean anything when I will be overclocking my system. And my system is at 3.6ghz. Question is will I benefit from a sandybridge system rather than the AMD one which is over £100 less? And do these AMD's overclock enough like the Intels?

And will my 600W PSU be enough to power a overclocked system and a overclocked GTX 480?
 
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Yeah but i'm bottlenecking a gtx480 my e5200 was fine on a 8800gt. I'm goimg Sandy anyways theres always something going to come out and overclocked it'll
Last me years.
 
Yeah same fps on a GTX 480 and a 5850. No bottleneck at all. And seriously you're going on specs? Look at crysis specs, only now can the top cards come to play it properly 4 years after its release.
 
95thrifles said:
You clearly have no comprehension of how a PC works

a CPU can bottleneck a GPU and vice versa, which is the more common incidence

games are massively GPU dependent but they still require CPU power too, the following is a massive oversimplification
The PC can only go as fast as its slowest component for example theres no point putting a 580 in an athlon X4 630 for a game which requires lots of CPU power because what will happen is the CPU wont be able to cope so the GPU will prob only be able to go at say 50% speed whilst the CPU is maxed out, what most people want is for GPU to be able to run at full tilt and prefer CPU at under 100% say 70% load, this is seen as optimum, if the CPU does get to 100% before the GPU and the GPU can only run at 50% this is called bottlenecking
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This. Just couldn't be bothered to write it all or even entertain such a silly post with a serious reply lol.
 
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