BF2S Forums Will a my cpu bottleneck this setup?

anybody? I'd like to have results before thursday, that way i'll pick it up before the weekend.

Not that I'm a computer expert, but I'd say that from my limited knowledge and your provided information about the components, it would appear to me that the only component to slow you down would be your processor. Again, don't take this as fact, but I think that'll be bottleneck.

Hope this is somewhat helpful for you.

Don't forget, you'll need to buy new memory too.

I'm still looking at what memory can fit my budget. I'll most likely start out with 1gb and buy the second later, unless my parents wanna lend me some.

Last edited by Jbrar (2006-12-19 18:47:24)

naw that should be fine, try to overclock it to 2.2ghz at least

my roomie is running a barton 2500+ @3200 speeds, a small overclock because his case sucks and has no airflow at all but it runs fine wit a 7800GS agp card

its not a bottlneck

you should be ok

those cards have less pixelpipelines and are AGP, your cpu was around when AGP was king so it should be fine

if this is your board then no it wont "bottleneck" things. http://www.pcclub.com/clearance_details … o=A4830955  . if i were you id get this 7600gt http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6814150190 . i think its one of the best agp 7600 cards out there. plus xfx give a double lifetime warranty. you have a good amount of memory. your motherboard isn't bad. but its still only a socket a board...specs... http://www.pcclub.com/clearance_details … =A4830955. your processor is really the weak link . you could upgrade a socket a chip very cheap if you can find a faster one. i know newegg is out. but there are others out there. game performance in my opinion is going to be limited to the next 5-6 months before you need a complete rebuild. if it were me id save my cash. you can play bf2 right? then id just hold out for as long as i could and let some of the prices come down on the new stuff. then build a mid to top end machine. lots of info sources are saying that once vista comes out more product will hit the market lowering prices of the stuff we can get now. save you money and use it toward a direct x 10 machine. nvidia's 8800 is expensive now but you know that another card is in the works. when it comes out the 8800 wont be so expensive.  i have put lots of money into machines that should have been retired just to build a new one in a few months after i realize I'm beating a dead horse so to speak

CrazeD wrote:

No such thing as a bottle neck.

You must not have ever owned a p4..lol