Before I upgrade my 8800gt to a gtx 460, I was wondering if my cpu would be a bottleneck. E6750 duo core 2.66ghz 8800gt - upgrading to gtx 460 2gb ram windows xp 32 bit Thanks.
Bottleneck being defined as something limiting the performance of the GPU? Of course. That doesn't mean you won't see some improvement in performance. A better processor would give you more performance from GPU in this case. If you can overclock your processor that would help too. There is always a 'bottleneck' of some kind in every system.
Not much i think, just play in higher resolutions and enjoy your new card but you could try to oc your cpu and if you can, get more ram.
Yes, your processor is going to bottleneck a GTX460 in GPU bound games. Not really worth worrying about though.....unless you're just looking for justification for building a new system. Just turn up your graphics settings and enjoy... In CPU bound games, you'll see little to no improvement without a processor upgrade.
Another question. Right now the psu I am using is http://www.3dvelocity.com/reviews/oczms520/ms520.htm Would that be able to power a gtx 460 overclocked? I plan on getting more ram and a better cpu as well.
your new 460GTX will perform exactly the same than your 8800gt in 99% games if you keep that dual core at 2.66ghz. (my old 9600gt which its a little worse than 8800gt was "on top performance" with my old AMD X2 at 2.6ghz, which its a little worse than intel duals too). <-- This at 1280x1024 If you play at 1920x1080 resolution you may notice increases from 8800gt to 460gtx (still i think 460gtx bottlenecked anyways). But i doubt it will be so much. Also with more videoram, more RAM could help you. Personal tip: Wait more and get a new PC. Or upgrade ram/cpu (maybe some 2nd hand intel quad and 2nd hand ddr2 from guru3d members?) /gpu together. Of course depends of which game we are talking, but most of them work that way with physics and more things.
