Bottlenecking CPU??

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#1 blangenakker
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The CPU in my rig is a Pentium 4 3.4ghz and I looked the the specs on the PC and it's said the CPU was 3.40GHz but next to it saids 2.28GHz, cpuld my PC be bottlenecking or is it just old

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#2 Q-ROD-S
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its a term use for when your graphics card is faster than your cpu
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#3 johnny27
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yes your cpu will bottle neck any modern gpu.
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#4 d-rtyboy
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Nothing is bottlenecking his CPU. Bottlenecking does not change your clock speed. Power saving features like Cool n Quiet change the CPU speed. Unfortunately, I don't know what the power saving feature for the P4 is called. I can only refer you to your motherboards manual. Edit: A quick look at wikipedia it's called speedstep.
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[QUOTE="d-rtyboy"]Nothing is bottlenecking his CPU. Bottlenecking does not change your clock speed. Power saving features like Cool n Quiet change the CPU speed. Unfortunately, I don't know what the power saving feature for the P4 is called. I can only refer you to your motherboards manual. Edit: A quick look at wikipedia it's called speedstep.

people dont know what bottlenecking is lmao
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#6 eagle63
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heh...and my friends wonder why i wont work on there computers...

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#7 JunkTrap
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[QUOTE="kemar7856"][QUOTE="d-rtyboy"]Nothing is bottlenecking his CPU. Bottlenecking does not change your clock speed. Power saving features like Cool n Quiet change the CPU speed. Unfortunately, I don't know what the power saving feature for the P4 is called. I can only refer you to your motherboards manual. Edit: A quick look at wikipedia it's called speedstep.

people dont know what bottlenecking is lmao

Heh... bottlenecking doesn't apply to computers only...
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#8 Iantheone
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Right, i had an old laptop with a 1ghz sempron processor. After a few years of work the clock speed slowly "drained" to 400 mhz. No idea why or how, but i never had anti virus on the thing for the years i was using it :P Did a complete reinstall of the os and everything and it jumped back up to 1ghz.
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#9 blangenakker
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ATI Radeon X1650 512mb graphics card is what I have

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#10 GazaAli
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ATI Radeon X1650 512mb graphics card is what I have

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nah your not being bottlenecked. you GPU is weak. upgrade man, its dirt cheap right now.
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#11 brittbox
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So a HD5780 would get bottlenecked by my E6600@2.4 and 4gb of Kingston 800mhz ram?

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#12 GazaAli
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So a HD5780 would get bottlenecked by my E6600@2.4 and 4gb of Kingston 800mhz ram?

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overclock the E6600 to something like 3.2 or 3.4 Ghz and you will be happy.
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So a HD5780 would get bottlenecked by my E6600@2.4 and 4gb of Kingston 800mhz ram?

brittbox
Yeah, a bit. Give it an overclock to 3.0Ghz and your fine.
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#14 Daytona_178
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Anyway iam seeing some weird explanations on what a bottleneck is on this topic.

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#15 brittbox
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[QUOTE="brittbox"]

So a HD5780 would get bottlenecked by my E6600@2.4 and 4gb of Kingston 800mhz ram?

Daytona_178

Yeah, a bit. Give it an overclock to 3.0Ghz and your fine.

Yeah, I just might do that. What cooler do you recommend, I've been looking at the CM Hyper 212 Plus.

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#16 Filthybastrd
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Since we're at it, I'll add a question too.

Right now my I7920 is running at stock with a GTX285 which seems to not bottleneck at all. Would I need to OC a bit with the new ATI cards?

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#17 Daytona_178
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[QUOTE="Daytona_178"][QUOTE="brittbox"]

So a HD5780 would get bottlenecked by my E6600@2.4 and 4gb of Kingston 800mhz ram?

brittbox

Yeah, a bit. Give it an overclock to 3.0Ghz and your fine.

Yeah, I just might do that. What cooler do you recommend, I've been looking at the CM Hyper 212 Plus.

Freezer Pro 7 will do it easily and costs barely anything.
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