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CPU Bottlenecking

7 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/cpu-bottlenecking.166587/

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Tachyon1986 Original post #1
Nov 23, 2012 at 12:35 PM
Hi,

I have a MSI GTX 560 Ti (Twin Frozr II edition) card. My current CPU is a classic Core2Quad Q6600 overclocked at 3.0 Ghz. I understand my GPU is getting bottlenecked , but how bad is it? Will there be a major jump in GPU performance if I switch to say... a i5-3570k processor?
avinandan012
avinandan012 #2
Nov 23, 2012 at 12:57 PM
Monitor resolution ??
Budget??
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Tachyon1986 #3
Nov 23, 2012 at 1:50 PM
avinandan012 said:
Monitor resolution ??
Budget??
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I'm not really looking to buy anything here. It was just a question of how bad the bottlenecking is , and what's the recommended processor to avoid that.
Myth
Myth #4
Nov 23, 2012 at 2:27 PM
Most games are more gpu dependant than cpu. A quad core like yours is good enough.
You may feel worse with a higher gpu.
Try 3.2ghz. The bottleneck is not so bad as of now.

What resolution do you play at ?
thetechfreak
thetechfreak #5
Nov 23, 2012 at 3:09 PM
Tachyon1986 said:
Hi,

I have a MSI GTX 560 Ti (Twin Frozr II edition) card. My current CPU is a classic Core2Quad Q6600 overclocked at 3.0 Ghz. I understand my GPU is getting bottlenecked , but how bad is it? Will there be a major jump in GPU performance if I switch to say... a i5-3570k processor?
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Like we said before there won't be a bottleneck. Not anytime soon :wink:
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Naxal #6
Nov 23, 2012 at 3:26 PM
C2Q 6600 @ 3.0 GHz bottlenecking ????

:shock:

Something else may be the cause i suppose if there is a buttleneck
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Tachyon1986 #7
Nov 23, 2012 at 3:39 PM
Myth said:
Most games are more gpu dependant than cpu. A quad core like yours is good enough.
You may feel worse with a higher gpu.
Try 3.2ghz. The bottleneck is not so bad as of now.

What resolution do you play at ?
Click to expand...

I play at 1920x1080 , I have a 23 inch monitor. But it looks like TheTechFreak still remembers one of my earlier threads :mrgreen: , fine I'll stick to this CPU for now. Old is probably more gold than I expect , I guess.