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Core 2 Quad Bottleneck

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I have a feeling a Core 2 Quad Q9300 will bottleneck an HD 6970. From what I know, an i3 won't bottleneck a GTX 760. An i3 has a passmark of around 4,800 and the Q9300 has a passmark of 3,600. A 760 has 2.7 TFlops and the 6970 has 2.4 TFlops. Should I see some bottlenecking? and How much would it be?

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You will most likely see some bottlenecking.  That said, if you can get a decent clock on your chip you'll reduce it.

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You may see some minor bottlenecking with this setup, especially in CPU intensive applications, a modest overclock on your CPU shoild reduce it enough to render it a non-issue.

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it will but still.... ,boost up the Clock speed to reduce it wile saving for an other CPU if you know what i'm saying ,never deal with this kind of issues temporarily  because ,overclocking The CPU will only reduce it wile the life span of it is shrinking more and more,tell it run out of horse power and you 'll have to replace it any way

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I have a feeling a Core 2 Quad Q9300 will bottleneck an HD 6970. From what I know, an i3 won't bottleneck a GTX 760. An i3 has a passmark of around 4,800 and the Q9300 has a passmark of 3,600. A 760 has 2.7 TFlops and the 6970 has 2.4 TFlops. Should I see some bottlenecking? and How much would it be?

6970 actually has 2.7Tflops and the 760 2.4 Tflops

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As long as the CPU is fast enough to handle AI and physics calculations and maintain playable framerate, it should not matter. There is always some sort of bottleneck in any system, object is to reduce the bottleneck. Heck, I have a C2Q X9650 with a HD7970, doesn't seem to have any problem handling the games I have thrown at it.

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Give it a bit of fsb and optimize your os for speed.

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It's just time to upgrade. My Q9550 I had didn't really keep a 6950 above 50% load enough at stock settings. Upgrading to a 2600K made the gpu sit everywhere at 99%

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It's just time to upgrade. My Q9550 I had didn't really keep a 6950 above 50% load enough at stock settings. Upgrading to a 2600K made the gpu sit everywhere at 99%

Well its a cheap build something I can make with spare parts and a tiny bit of money. The HD6970 is running $130 on ebay so what the hay right?

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