How badly is my computer bottlenecked?

I right now have a Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 overclocked to 3.0ghz paired with 4 gigs of A-Data DDR 800 ram and a XFX 4890 1gb graphic card.

How bad is this bottleneck for my graphic processor? I feel that the CPU is really limiting the potential performance of my graphic card. Any words of wisdom? I am thinknig of upgrading my CPU and PSU to match the needs of my graphic card. I have only a 520 watt power supply now. I want to up that to 750 watts and replace the CPU with a Q6600.

Any thoughts?

To be honest, at the moment your e6600 should handle any game thrown at it fairly well. In the future(when games get more demanding) you will definitely want to step up to something a little better.

I right now have a Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 overclocked to 3.0ghz paired with 4 gigs of A-Data DDR 800 ram and a XFX 4890 1gb graphic card.

How bad is this bottleneck for my graphic processor? I feel that the CPU is really limiting the potential performance of my graphic card. Any words of wisdom? I am thinknig of upgrading my CPU and PSU to match the needs of my graphic card. I have only a 520 watt power supply now. I want to up that to 750 watts and replace the CPU with a Q6600.

Any thoughts?

Yeah you should be fine with that CPU and GPU and you have plenty of RAM. Unless you are trying to run at rez higher than 1920x1200 you shouldn't have any problems with that setup for at least 6 months or so.

Edit: Missed the PSU part, depending on the brand, 520 should be fine for single GPU. I would only upgrade it if its a) a crappy off brand that may fail, or b) you decide to SLI/Crossfire.

Yeah you should be fine with that CPU and GPU and you have plenty of RAM. Unless you are trying to run at rez higher than 1920x1200 you shouldn't have any problems with that setup for at least 6 months or so.

Edit: Missed the PSU part, depending on the brand, 520 should be fine for single GPU. I would only upgrade it if its a) a crappy off brand that may fail, or b) you decide to SLI/Crossfire.

SerOlmy

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Yeah you should be fine with that CPU and GPU and you have plenty of RAM. Unless you are trying to run at rez higher than 1920x1200 you shouldn't have any problems with that setup for at least 6 months or so.

Edit: Missed the PSU part, depending on the brand, 520 should be fine for single GPU. I would only upgrade it if its a) a crappy off brand that may fail, or b) you decide to SLI/Crossfire.

Wasdie

I right now have a Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 overclocked to 3.0ghz paired with 4 gigs of A-Data DDR 800 ram and a XFX 4890 1gb graphic card.

How bad is this bottleneck for my graphic processor? I feel that the CPU is really limiting the potential performance of my graphic card. Any words of wisdom? I am thinknig of upgrading my CPU and PSU to match the needs of my graphic card. I have only a 520 watt power supply now. I want to up that to 750 watts and replace the CPU with a Q6600.

Any thoughts?

Wasdie

What games are you playing?

[QUOTE="Wasdie"][QUOTE="SerOlmy"]

Yeah you should be fine with that CPU and GPU and you have plenty of RAM. Unless you are trying to run at rez higher than 1920x1200 you shouldn't have any problems with that setup for at least 6 months or so.

Edit: Missed the PSU part, depending on the brand, 520 should be fine for single GPU. I would only upgrade it if its a) a crappy off brand that may fail, or b) you decide to SLI/Crossfire.

Nibroc420

How can I see how many watts im pulling?

I used this to see how much mine pull.

Great little gadget if you ask me.

I used this to see how much mine pull.

Great little gadget if you ask me.

ch5richards

If I somehow get ahold of one of those, I could measure how much power my computer demands under a load?

Yes you could. I have one, but for some reason it doesn't let my PC pull more than 300 watts when using it, so my PC just crashes. :(

Yes you could. I have one, but for some reason it doesn't let my PC pull more than 300 watts when using it, so my PC just crashes. :(

joshuahaveron

would you say my 9800GTX+ is being bottlenecked by my Athlon X2 5600+ @ 3.1GHz? i have had low fps in crysis and fallout 3 in heavy combatChris_53

I wouldn't say that there's a bottleneck tere.