- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: staticx576
I could easily believe this, hell my athlon x2 4400 bottlenecks my 8800 GTX to slightly better than an x1950 series card. The solution to CPU bottlenecking has always been to run the game in an extremely high resolution with AA so the card has more to process than any cpu could realistically give it.
I Apologize than, I've never owned a high end card before so I could never really tell. My graphics card was always the one to bottleneck my computer, never my cpu. I just recently went from a 6200 to a 7600GT and was more than happy with the results. Can't exactly afford an 8800, and getting a GTX with a X2 4400 wasn't exactly the smartest idea, than again, any dual core processor will bottleneck an 8800.
But still, any X1950 is twice as powerful as my 7600GT :-), not to mention an X1950 isn't exactly a mid range card like I was trying to tell you.
Posted by: cullisonjason
(Plus I am running my card in an AGP slot, I am guessing you are running yours on a PCI-E16x)
Yep, I am, but I don't think it will make much of a deal, I don't think last generation GPU's took full advantage of PCI-E 16x, and the benchmarks i've seen between the 7800 AGP vs 7800 PCI-E 16x, same card, different slot, showed the AGP version beat the PCI-E 16x in almost everything, by very, very little of cause, but it was still faster :-)
[Edited on 07.07.2007 10:15 AM PDT]