CPU bottleneck?

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CorruptHawkeyez

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I'm wondering about getting a better graphics card then the one I have. I have an Nvidia GTX 460 1MB graphics card right now. CPU is the AMD Phenom ii X4 940BE. What would be the highest card I could go to before my CPU would be a bottleneck? Or should I just save my money to purchase a DDR3 system, and keep the GTX 460 to use in that system? :confused:
 
Not even close. A GTX480 may be. You could test this by cranking up the fan and overclocking the GPU. If you get no increase in FPS, and the CPU is at close to 100% in gaming, then you know. But watch the cooling and watch the 12V rail stability (i.e. crank the fans and make sure you have a good PSU)
 
Yeah, there's no bottleneck there. You could probably go to a 660 without seeing any noticeable bottleneck.
 
Well, today I came across a whole computer for $8. It has an AMD Phenom ii X4 965BE on an Asus M4A79XTD EVO motherboard with 4GB of GSkill DDR3 memory. Didn't fair to well on the video card but will work as a backup if needed with the Vapor-X Radeon 5770. Also had a Corsair TX650W power supply. Although a little low on the wattage it will still work as a backup.

I did a "dead" boot[my wording I could only come up with] (no monitor, no keyboard,no mouse, no HDD) just to see if I could get a single post beep, and I did. YEAH!! I did notice that the fan on the Arctic Freezer Pro 7 that came with it also was not spinning all that great, so shortly after the post beep, I got 1 long and 4 short beeps; which I believe to be a CPU fan failure beep code...correct me if I'm wrong.

Now to decide whether I want to take the time and swap everything over into my other system, and restart all over again with installing windows and crap; or if I can wait.. decisions decisions........
 
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