How to reduce bottlenecking without OC

[areszues92]

It is personally impossible for me to OC my cpu as i know nothing and have read many tutorials but to no avail. I am planning to buy a GTX 460 1 GB and a PSU, and buying a new CPU and Ram is too much on my budget. So, can someone please tell me how to reduce bottlenecking without OC'ing my CPU.

Specs: Intel Core 2 Duo e6750 2.66 ghz
2 GB DDR2 667 mhz
Max Res: 1440x900

 

[areszues92]

anyone??

 

[pparks1]

It's pretty much impossible to make your CPU faster without overclocking it and making it run faster. I'd just wait for your new card to come and see if you actually run into performance problems. I think a lot of people worry too much about stuff like this. CPU's can do an amazing amount of work these days...and are rarely a bottleneck in a system.

 

[areszues92]

But i'm really worried that i wont get much improvements in games. I dont want to waste money

 

[pparks1]

what video card are you coming from...and what are you expecting to get out of your new card?

 

[ken9122]

Although we don't now what GPU you had before the GTX 460. You should be fine.

 

[areszues92]

An Asus 8600GT 512 MB DDR2, i expect a huge jump in performance. But I'm afarid the CPU will bottleneck it badly.

 

[pparks1]

Your performance increase will be substantial, even with your CPU. Don't worry

 

[areszues92]

Are you sure? Wont my CPU bottleneck it?

 

[pparks1]

Are you sure? Wont my CPU bottleneck it?

No, I'm not absolutely sure. But more than likely, many games won't push the GPU to it's absolute limit, which means that your CPU won't be at it's limit either. And if your CPU did slow down the game somewhat, you can adjust those settings a bit to reduce the load on your CPU...while still gaining immensely from having the higher powered GPU. Considering how few games really take advantage of quad core technologies, and you are are running on a Core 2 Duo at 2.6Ghz....for many games and such you should be A-OK.

 

[areszues92]

I'm a little confused about resolutions, some people say increasing resolutions reduce stress on CPU and some otherwise.

 

[areszues92]

reply pls

 

[WukaChop]

Increasing a resolution doesn't help at all, it just stresses the GPU.
Things that are CPU-Based in a game are generally Anti-Aliasing, shadows and smoke.
But Intel processors have a pretty good ALU so it shouldn't be a problem.
If it helps my CPU is only 2.5GHz and that can max every game that my GPU can.

 

[areszues92]

Are there any benchmarks for Intel Core 2 Duo and a GTX 460? The only one I manage to find is the anandtech cpu benchmark, my E6750 with a GTX 280 is bottlenecked really bad about 20-30 fps compared to a I7 950.

 

[areszues92]

reply me pls

 

[ken9122]

If you fill out your sysytem specs you may get more responce. But i think we alardy answered your first question.

 

[pparks1]

At a max resolution of 1440x900...you don't have a massive load that you are going to put on the video card. You probably don't need 1GB of RAM on your video card in all honesty...a 768MB unit should be just fine based on the resolutions and such that you are going to play

From what I am seeing, an EVGA GTX 460 with 768MB of RAM is about $179 on NewEgg...so not a ton of money.

I still don't really see your CPU as being an issue.

 

[areszues92]

intel core 2 duo e6750
2 GB DDR2 667 mhz
Asus P5K-SE mobo
Asus 8600 GT
19" HP monitor

 

[areszues92]

Did you see the benchmarks at anandtech? What if those benchies are taken at 1440x900 resolution?

 

[areszues92]

reply me pls