Possible Bottleneck??

shenry

shenry

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I'll probably be getting an 8800 GT for Xmas so I wondered if my system might bottleneck it a little.(In sig) The old 7600 has been great but is starting to show its age.
 
I don't think it will be that noticeable, if there is one. If it ever becomes a nuisance, you could always OC that proc, as much or little as you deem fit (or comfortable).
 
I've tried overclocking, I can never get it stable past 2.55 Ghz. Probably because I suck at it and my motherboard aint so good.
 
Yea your gonna bottleneck. I'm having issues with my 8800GT right now. I even tried SLI and it made the problem worse. So im gonna get more ram and a new cpu.
 
That's a gigabyte board, right? I got an older one, and it's great.. Did you do everything you needed too? Put a divider on the RAM, lower the HT multiplier, up the voltage alittle? If so, then too bad. I could OC my single core sandy (3700) past 2.8, but I got my x2 3800, and it was a dud. I can't overclock from the bios, it doesn't post, I have to set all the settings (mem divider/HT mult/voltage) in the BIOS, but leave the HTT alone, then use easytune within Windows to OC. There I can get to 2.8 easy.
 
Whenever I try to touch the settings of the Ram (by using ctrl +F1) it resets all the bios to the default settings. I haven't tried a bios update yet but I will soon.
 
Definitely try that. It may be the only reason you're having problems, then you can OC (FTW) and alleviate that possible bottleneck, when it comes.
 
shenry said:
Whenever I try to touch the settings of the Ram (by using ctrl +F1) it resets all the bios to the default settings. I haven't tried a bios update yet but I will soon.
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You can't overclock VALUE RAM. Something to do with Promos and D9's I think :D

RAM can also bottleneck overclocking...
 
shenry said:
I've tried overclocking, I can never get it stable past 2.55 Ghz. Probably because I suck at it and my motherboard aint so good.
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Thats a good board Overclocks well. I,ve had a X2 4600 overclocked to 2.7 pretty easy

shenry said:
Whenever I try to touch the settings of the Ram (by using ctrl +F1) it resets all the bios to the default settings. I haven't tried a bios update yet but I will soon.
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You need to update it to the F10 bios, use Gigabytes @bios and download the bios update and save it. Start up @bios direct it to the bios update that you saved
 
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