Amd Athlon 2.8 Xp

[mr. nails]

Originally posted by slimboyfatz@9 July 2004 - 14:17
Cheers m8 for the info....if i went for the 2500..then pussied out and didnt overclock..is that still a gonna be a good enough processor for a few years yet??? How will it stand up against stuff like Doom3...blah blah????

The 2500XP would be alongside 512mb DDR and a Radeon 9800Pro..would that help???

ur fine with the 2500+ and the 9800 pro ONLY if u don't upgrade to next gen vid crd. why i say this is because that cpu will bottleneck with next gen cards and u've waisted ur $$$$.

[slimboyfatz]

Originally posted by mr. nails+10 July 2004 - 15:01--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (mr. nails @ 10 July 2004 - 15:01)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-slimboyfatz@9 July 2004 - 14:17
Cheers m8 for the info....if i went for the 2500..then pussied out and didnt overclock..is that still a gonna be a good enough processor for a few years yet??? How will it stand up against stuff like Doom3...blah blah????

The 2500XP would be alongside 512mb DDR and a Radeon 9800Pro..would that help???

ur fine with the 2500+ and the 9800 pro ONLY if u don&#39;t upgrade to next gen vid crd. why i say this is because that cpu will bottleneck with next gen cards and u&#39;ve waisted ur &#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;. [/b][/quote]
Would that be a problem with the 2800XP+ ????

[kaiweiler]

Probably yes, just not as much so.
Chances are any CPU you get today under &#036;200 would bottle neck the next gen cards, so I wouldn&#39;t worry about it.
By the time your 9800pro would be out of date it&#39;d be time for a new cpu anyway.

[clocker]

K,
Why would his CPU "bottleneck" the nextgen vid cards?
Aren&#39;t they coming with even more onboard memory to avoid just that?

[kaiweiler]

Originally posted by clocker@10 July 2004 - 11:35
K,
Why would his CPU "bottleneck" the nextgen vid cards?
Aren&#39;t they coming with even more onboard memory to avoid just that?

I read an article somewhere that while testing the next gen series of cards they were getting inaccurate readings because of the card being bottlenecked by the cpu.
I&#39;ll try to find it again.

[kaiweiler]

Well I can&#39;t find it again, but I remember it said something like how you have to run an OS, which takes clock cycles. Devices also take clock cycles. As do drivers and the list goes on and on.
Therefore if your CPU is to slow to handle all these processes then it will run fairly slow.
Then no matter how fast your graphics card is it will still run a game slowly due to the slow running CPU.
Thus bottlenecking your fast graphics card during gaming or anything like that.
Wasn&#39;t those exact words, but that&#39;s the idea.

[Amarjit]

Take into account the fact that the CPU is the current limiting factor of GPU performance - the bus, e.g. PCI Express, is not yet relevant. Therefore, theoretically speaking, a faster CPU will consequence in a noticeable improvement in GPU performance.

[Peerzy]

Originally posted by slimboyfatz@9 July 2004 - 19:30
I&#39;ve mentioned in earlier threads that i was gonna purchase a Athlon 3.2XP, but due to budget constraints i might opt for the 2.8....one big question...is it easily overclocked and too what..can i raise the FSB from 333 to 400 easily???

Someone wrote a guide about overclocking i think, dunno where it is, proberly in one of the pinnied topics, might be worth trying to find it .