Hi Guys! Newbie here, do you guys think that i have a CPU Bottleneck? Should i upgrade now to SB? My INfo is my Specs right now..Here's my 3DMARK11 Benchmark..
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What resolution do you game at? but, tbh, it won't matter as you have no bottleneck. Edit: Taking another look at your GPU clocks I think you probably do have a bottleneck but it's limited to benchmarks for the most part. A stock or slightly OC GTX 570 would be fine with your current system 99% of the time.
imo theres no bottleneck, looks to be the same score as a friend of mine with a i5@3.8ghz,gtx570 setup.
Smart decision, in a few short months you’ll be glad you waited. The q9550 will bottleneck the 570 in some situations; you could monitor your cpu usage during game play just to see where and under what circumstances the bottleneck exists, collect the data, then compare after you decide on the platform upgrade. I did this when I moved from the q9550 to the i5 760, and was quite surprised at the performance difference between the two and that was with a gtx 470.
I would say its bottleneck.Because I with my one gtx 570 clocks 850/1100/1700 core/mem/shader and with my stock i7 920 on 2.66 i scored 5800.With overclock on 3.8 i socred over 6000
i7 setup will have a higher score than LGA775, but that does not mean there is a bottleneck that will affect performance negatively. Q9550 is still a performing CPU setup for single card setups. what is important for LGA775 is the chipset. Intel chipsets are much faster than Nvidia, so that would have a strong performance impact than just CPU.
If you have to use a synthetic benchmark to find a bottleneck, your worrying too much. People are getting obsessed about bottlenecks.
I will be testing the GTX570 against my 460 today on a similar CPU, and im not expecting much, if any CPU bottleneck. I think people are confusing a CPU bottleneck with a CPU heavy application or game. 3D Mark has always been pretty CPU heavy anyway, even moreso this year with new physics engine, but no point using it as a guide, much more accurate to use actual games. The only reason 3D Mark 11 is included in my testing is because i got it free with the card.
In some cases, what appears to be a CPU bottleneck, is in fact not. Some games, utilize the CPU more than the GPU, and as such make it appear that there is a bottleneck when infact there isn't. Quite frankly, I'm with PurpleFish on this....people are far too worried about "bottlenecks" these days. Bottlenecks have and will always exist.
I wouldn't worry that much about a potential bottleneck with the Q9550 Perhaps it may hold back performance a bit, but it's not as if the performance would be disastrous... I mean, an I5 could perhaps give 20 frames more, but what difference does that make when you are still averaging above 60 FPS with the Core 2 Quad? In general, I find people being way too harsh about the Core 2 Quads...The Q9000 series is competetive to the Phenom II X4 processors
