$500 CPU and $50 graphics card...right?

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So, we take on the subject, bottlenecking. We discuss what it is all about and give you some tips on being a smart buyer.


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I have a $70 CPU and a $199 video card, both compliment and run my system's games very nicely.

Old CPU/GPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ dual core 1.9 Ghz, ATI Radeon HD 3850 512MB
New CPU/GPU: AMD Athlon 2 X3 450 triple core 3.2 Ghz, ATI Radeon HD 7850 2GB

With my old CPU and my new GPU, some games still were struggling to keep up with the video card (IE Saint's Row 3, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, etc) but when I got the new CPU, the struggling occurs no more and I can run both at max or near-max settings without a problem at a modest resolution (1280x720).

I actually did some research on the CPUs before I made my decision to see the performance gain I get from upgrading it. I saw the X3 450 was at the upper high range in terms of performance and showed at least a 3x boost compared to the 3600+. I am very happy with the CPU investment and everything is up to par now :)
 
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Andrew Flint said:
I've personally got a £400 Graphics card and £250 CPU in this machine :')
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Haha well, for 250 I'm sure any GPU will work perfectly. May I ask which kinds? (Guessing Intel)

chrisdragon said:
I have a $70 CPU and a $199 video card, both compliment and run my system's games very nicely.

Old CPU/GPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ dual core 1.9 Ghz, ATI Radeon HD 3850 512MB
New CPU/GPU: AMD Athlon 2 X3 450 triple core 3.2 Ghz, ATI Radeon HD 7850 2GB

With my old CPU and my new GPU, some games still were struggling to keep up with the video card (IE Saint's Row 3, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, etc) but when I got the new CPU, the struggling occurs no more and I can run both at max or near-max settings without a problem at a modest resolution (1280x720).

I actually did some research on the CPUs before I made my decision to see the performance gain I get from upgrading it. I saw the X3 450 was at the upper high range in terms of performance and showed at least a 3x boost compared to the 3600+. I am very happy with the CPU investment and everything is up to par now :)
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Yeah, that was a smart move! I wish more people would take the time to actually research the parts their buying haha. Some people dump like half their money on a CPU that they won't fully utilize half the time
 
thedigblackbick said:
Haha well, for 250 I'm sure any GPU will work perfectly. May I ask which kinds? (Guessing Intel)


Yeah, that was a smart move! I wish more people would take the time to actually research the parts their buying haha. Some people dump like half their money on a CPU that they won't fully utilize half the time
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CPU - Intel i7 3.4GHz quad-core (turbo boosted to 3.9GHz)
GPU - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2GB GDDR5

I'm also running on 24GBs of 1600MHz DDR3 ram :)
 
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