Most bottlenecked system ever!!

Hello Guru friends!!!

I've just upgraded my graphic car to an ATI HD 5770.
As you guys can see on my signature it is severely being bottlenecked by my Pentium D.

I've run the unigine heaven benchmark and i scored 732 points with
Resolution:1280X1024
Anti-aliasing: none
Tessellation: enabled

:bang: i've been monitoring gpu usage with msi afterburner and it rarely goes beyond 60%...

Any suggestions on what is the ideal processor for me to upgrade to?

Thanks in Advance!!

 

socket 775? Q8300-Q9550 I guess, u got a budget?

 

Well your on a dell so....i don't think you have much choice.

 

by looking at your rig there is 3 thing that could be improved the RAM, CPU, MOTHERBOARD.

i think the dell motherboard wont even support a C2D

 

^ that kinda sux, get rid of that POS motherboard in that case, the only thing dell I'd but is screens and maybe cases OP save up till u can afford to go board and a CPU I guess

 

The worst part is that the everything is BTX ( sucks even more!!! )

 

does the case support ATX boards at all?

 

Sell de Dell or keep part to build a new one!!! you can get better for about the same price you pay for the 5770 card!!!

 

sell the 5970 back and try to actually build a better comp... a pentium D probably gives a small bottleneck to even a 7900GTX
>_>

 

^ itz a 5770 lol, I say keep it but concentrate on the rest of the PC next time round

 

wtf... he must have edited the post... i swear.............. it said 5970 :3eyes:

 

A Pentium D! Sigh....

That thing was terrible even at the time of release............ It bottlenecks a 6800gt!!!

you need a C2D at least.