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Was just wondering how far i can push my computer without my my proccesor holding my computer bak.

intel e8500 (no overclok)
I currently own a radeon 4830
And 2 gigs of ram

I was also wondering what the best video card i could get if i overcloked my processor to like 3.6ghz

Not sure if this matter but i run games at 1920 by 1200

My main games i play are l4d compony of heroes and teamfortress 2

Personally, with the card you own, I'd wait and see what is nvidia cooking. And don't think the CPU will "hold back" your PC for any game.

sasamkd wrote:Personally, with the card you own, I'd wait and see what is nvidia cooking. And don't think the CPU will "hold back" your PC for any game.

actually with the higher end cards the CPU is the bottleneck, even an overclocked i7 quad bottlenecks several different cards

i'd try to get a hold of the best ati 5xxx card you can afford though, as they provide unmatched power

Yes, but is it going to make a difference if you have 60 or 70 or 80 fps? Even less? And those high-end cards run with even more fps. So, why should I be concernd if my CPU is limiting my fps to say 60??? and not able to run at 100 with better CPU? So, I don't agree that better CPU is needed, even for the new 5xxx Radeon.

sasamkd wrote:Yes, but is it going to make a difference if you have 60 or 70 or 80 fps? Even less? And those high-end cards run with even more fps. So, why should I be concernd if my CPU is limiting my fps to say 60??? and not able to run at 100 with better CPU? So, I don't agree that better CPU is needed, even for the new 5xxx Radeon.

I think you misunderstood what skier wrote.

sasamkd wrote:Yes, but is it going to make a difference if you have 60 or 70 or 80 fps? Even less? And those high-end cards run with even more fps. So, why should I be concernd if my CPU is limiting my fps to say 60??? and not able to run at 100 with better CPU? So, I don't agree that better CPU is needed, even for the new 5xxx Radeon.

for certain games it matters, take TF2 for an example, if i get 50-60 FPS i can't play nearly as well as if my PC puts out 120fps or better(200+ is nice), a lot of people that play high-level competitively actually have really nice systems and still game on absurdly low settings like 1024x768 on a 21"+ monitor, just so they can assure the game won't lag under any circumstance, guaranteed, you just have to keep in mind the games played, high quality games like Crysis, Cryostasis and Assassins Creed are GPU based, while Source-engine games and the like are very CPU intensive so the graphics dont matter as much


and i was commenting that with Some Video cards, any CPU can bottleneck, not that in this particular case, his CPU would.