Will the e7200 bottleneck the Radeon 3870 x2?

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I was initially going to purchase the e8400, but I need to tighten up my budget so that I can afford my college tuition. Is the e8400 worth the added $70? Will I still have good frame rates with the e7200 that won't hold back the power of the 3870x2? I don't plan on over clocking, but if I do push the e7200 to 3 ghz will I need an aftermarket cooler?

I'm a gamer, by the way.
 
Did you buy HD3870 X2 ?

GTX 260 and 280 aregoing to come out on June 18 I believe. So, it would be better if you wait for the new high-end Nvidia cards

Anyway, no E7200 will not bottleneck the Radeon 3870 x2
 
actually it might hold it back a LITTLE bit but not too much. if you overclock it then definetely not.

but seriously, 3ghz is doable on stock cooling and voltage. try for like 3.4ghz at the least, its worth it.
 
IMO it's nearly impossible to simply say a CPU/GPU will bottleneck a system, as we really don't have any proof either way. Simple put I would try and make a well balanced system, from benchmarks in PCMark Vantage, the components that best qualify each other are a dual-core and single GPU, and quad-core and dual-GPU. When using a quad core with a single GPU or vice versa, there was found not to be much of a performance gain. Of course if the work you do solely relies on the CPU, then thats a different story.
 
thats fine, but the e7200 clock for clock is not as good as the e6 series, because of its 3mb's of cache. that said it is 45nm, but the cache can and will hurt it in games.
 
lovely? said:
thats fine, but the e7200 clock for clock is not as good as the e6 series, because of its 3mb's of cache. that said it is 45nm, but the cache can and will hurt it in games.
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i think it's actually better. cache doesn't make that much difference (1 mb) and the architecture is more efficient. e7200 also overclocks very well, I saw it getting 3.6-3.8 on air.
 
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