bfg nvidia 7800 gtx

[wingsofflame]

i have an amd athlon 64 x2 dual core processor -2.4ghz i just wanted to know if im bottlenecking my graphics card its a bfg nvidia 7800 gtx and i wanted to know if i could overclock my cpu to fix it

[ShyguyXPC]

honestly I don't think the 7800GTX would be bottlenecked on that CPU. If it were a first gen 8800GTS maybe, but that card was about 2 or 3 times more powerful at least than the 7800GTX as well.

Why do you think the card is being bottlenecked?

[SoloCamo]

Coming from a guy who had a near identical setup (x2 4200+ overclocked to 2.5ghz) and a ati x1950pro, no, you are definitely not bottlenecking that card.

Now throw in a gtx550ti like I did for a bit, and yes you will see a huge bottleneck.

[ShyguyXPC]

yeah, I had an older Socket 939 Athlon 64 X2 that ran at 2.2GHz stock, and ran a Geforce 7800GT for well over a year, in fact tried to run 2 in SLI, though never got SLI to work at the time.

But my X2 never even came close to bottlenecking the 7800GT, and the GTX wasn't That much more powerful than the 7800GT.

Hell, if I had my current 939 setup running right now, I could test a 7800GTX, since I have one that came with that system. Though that system has an Opteron 165, that can be OC'd to well over 2.5GHz as it is, but if it was running I could test and see if there is any difference going from say 2.8Ghz down to 2.4Ghz and see what frame rates and benches would show for GPU performance.


But after my 1st A64 X2 system, I ran a Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13GHz Dual core system, and a Geforce 8800GTS 320MB card, and that setup had a slight Bottleneck on the GPU. But I remember back then a single 320MB GTS matched or outperformed a Quad SLI Geforce 7950GX2 setup in some gaming tests, which just went to show how much more powerful the new 8 series was, with its new programmable shader architecture, and significant increase in shader cores.

Anyways, its a moot point since I have neither one of those systems anymore, and my 939 Opty 165 system is boxed up right now.

[wingsofflame]

i was just wondering because i've only been getting around 50 fps on games and when i had my nvidia 7800 gt in i was getting around 90-100

[SoloCamo]

i was just wondering because i've only been getting around 50 fps on games and when i had my nvidia 7800 gt in i was getting around 90-100

Are these the same games at the same resolution and settings otherwise?

If anything try to reinstall the drivers as well.

[ShyguyXPC]

whats the Power supply you have in that system?