Bottleneck with 6400 X2

[sigmapsicharlie]

Hey as you can see I run an Athlon 6400 X2 BE, and does great for me right now. Also I know right now dual dore is fine fine most games, but do you think that it will cause a bottleneck with the 4870X2 when I decide to upgrade from my 3870?

Right Now the 3870 and 6400 CPU, work perfectly together, (I just beat Crysis, and I'm not interested in its multiplayer), but do you think even being overclocked massively to 3.7 Ghz (high for this cpu) it will slow down the 4870x2??

See I havent any problems yet, so I think I can use it till the 45nm CPU's come out from AMD in the near future.

[Headfoot]

I would suggest against changing. It will not bottleneck your card, whatsoever. You will only be bottlenecked if you decide to play at extremely low resolutions with no eye candy turned on, but since you will buy the 4870X2, you obviously want all of the above.

BTW: Are you using water on your CPU, because thats a really good OC!?!

The 6400+ is not as fast as the newer Core 2 Duos clocked at 2.7-2.8 and up, but when it comes to games all this will amount to is 2-5 frames per second tops.

Crysis is the only game to use all 4 cores on a quad core, currently.

[sigmapsicharlie]

Yeah, liquid "coolant". Koolance EX2, with a special "secret" liquid I mix up in my garage.

I'm going to build an acrylic case and use CO2 eventually, it should keep my temps around 10 degrees Celsius, I believe. But I'm gonna wait for the next AMD CPU's before I do that.

[Radiator]

Crysis doesn't have the slightest idea how to properly use all four cores .
Anyway , the CPU is enough for the card .

[Die Auslese]

I'm not gonna start anything radiator, but Crysis uses 3 cores. Its benifits best on a quad core, becuase of this. It uses 1, and 2 core to run the game, its uses the 3rd core as spill over, and to better stream the game (also for sound, but this is irrelivent if you have a sound card). its does not use the 4th core, but rather using that core as an OS operating core, results in better performance, in all games, due to the 4th core being the last to be used. Still Crysis really does'nt even use that 3rd core, the programming does not know how to fully utilize that 3rd core.

[ultima]

your cpu should be fine for the card

read up on this, you'll be surprised at how little cpu power you need
anything over 2.0 ghz seems to run most cards at least 90% or above, of
their full potential


http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-gpu-upgrade,1928.html

heck even in the crysis bench
the faster cpu loses out....go figure

[Radiator]

I'm not gonna start anything radiator, but Crysis uses 3 cores. Its benifits best on a quad core, becuase of this. It uses 1, and 2 core to run the game, its uses the 3rd core as spill over, and to better stream the game (also for sound, but this is irrelivent if you have a sound card). its does not use the 4th core, but rather using that core as an OS operating core, results in better performance, in all games, due to the 4th core being the last to be used. Still Crysis really does'nt even use that 3rd core, the programming does not know how to fully utilize that 3rd core.

So in other words it doesn't really know what to do with a 4 core CPU ...
It'll be a long while before any games PROPERLY utilize a 4 core CPU , I'm afraid .

[McArthur]

Since you're planning on getting a 4870X2, chances are you won't be playing at low resolutions where the CPU is the bottleneck

[Headfoot]

Your special sauce must work well to get that high of an OC out of that chip. I have always heard of those as notoriously poor overclockers. I can only get a 100 mhz overclock out of mine before I get obvious problems. At 100 mhz the temperature is unacceptable for me though. (~60c). Stock cooling :(

Anywho, enjoy your 4870X2.

Also, if you are keeping your 3870, could you tell us if that will work in CrossFireX with the 4870X2? That would be bonafide bad-ass.