CPU bottlenecking GPU?

i really dont know why the new thing with graphics cards is bottlenecking. its being hyped up on nearly every forum i visit.
if your gaming is good and smooth i dont see a problem with your card or processor. im sure however that there would be a reasonable increase in your fps if you did upgrade your processor.

(the first bit wasn't me having a go at you.... just stating a trend that i've noticed :) )
 
Hairy_Lee said:
i really dont know why the new thing with graphics cards is bottlenecking. its being hyped up on nearly every forum i visit.
if your gaming is good and smooth i dont see a problem with your card or processor. im sure however that there would be a reasonable increase in your fps if you did upgrade your processor.

(the first bit wasn't me having a go at you.... just stating a trend that i've noticed :) )
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yea, its being all hyped up because GPU's are going insanely fast. i mean the bandwidth of Gram is insane nowadays.. 7800gtx 512mb version has 1.7ghz Graphics ram!... and 8 vertex shaders, 24 pixel pipelines... the x850xt has 6 vertex shaders and 16 pixel pipelines. really, cpu's can get much faster for single threads... and GPU's just keep progressing!

id overclock that 3200 200mhz or so with a new cooling solution and call it golden. then, id leave it the way it is and use it until you buy a new system in however many years.
 
ye but not that fast in all respect nothing really is that fast that is unbelivable when theres a point where you encode a movie in one click everything you click on happens in a slit second and graphic cards are outputting power in which the game looks real ill define them as fast
 
I have an AMD 3000+ and an nVidia 7800gt... and i was wondering how significant the bottlenecking on my unit is...
 
do a benchmark, over clock by about 200mhz (if you're not already) and benchmark when you're sure its stable, if you have a big jump in scores you can gauge how big the bottleneck is
 
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