i recently bought a new video card. i know its not really top-end. but its better than what i had by far. i was running a 7900 GS 256 mb pci-e. i just bought a powercolor 3850 pci-e video card off of newegg for $49 after mail in rebate. it performs very well for that kind of money and im satisfied with it for now, and my PSU still provides enough power to run my system. $49 is a great deal for a directx 10 card that has SOME performance. i was wondering if a amd athlon x2 4200 is a bottleneck with that card? is the card still limiting my performance, or is it more my processor. i also have 2 gb ddr2. i play crysis quite a bit. now i can turn up the detail a little more but i cannot turn everything on high without it chopping up. its still a noticable improvement over my old card.
is my cpu a bottleneck?
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Fritzjavel
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nope you good your CPU is not bottle necking your GFx card... but i mean the only limiting performance you may recieve is reaching the limits of the card... beyond that.. your computer everything is balanced...
