Will my CPU bottlneck a 8800GTX?

[flowerpower]

I currently have an eVGA 8800GTS 640 and i want to step up to a GTX, my only concern is that my CPU (AMD FX-62) may bottleneck it, can anyone confirm or refute this?

 

[Sketch Meister]

You have an eVGA 8800GTS 640 and you are upgrading to an 8800GTX? If you can run the GTS well you shouldnt have too much of a problem. I dont think there is much of a difference between the two cards except memory.

 

[beef_jerky4104]

Your CPU shouldn't bottleneck video card. You should have a great time running that video card.

Also the other than the memory the GTX has more stream processors.

 

[flowerpower]

Well, thats good to know, reason i ask is cause i told my friend i'm upgrading to a GTX and he said its not worth it cause my CPU will bottleneck it. He has a C2D E6600 and has no problem running one, so i guess he is wrong about this. Anyone here has experience running a GTX on an equivalent AMD CPU?

 

[Supra]

Its not worth it mainly because the GTX isnt hugely faster than the GTS. What the GTX has over the GTX is 128 Stream Proc to 96 for the GTS, a little more memory(768MB) and like 25% higher clock speeds. I wouldn't consider it worth the upgrade because you already have a 640MB GTS. Just buy another GTS and do SLI if you want your system to have more nuts.

Just my 2 cents

 

[MetalX]

Your money would be better invested in getting a new mobo and getting a Core 2. That would yield more of a performance enhancement than going from a GTS to GTX.

 

[flowerpower]

Getting a new mobo and CPU is really out of the question at this poing. First off i just assembled this system about 2 months ago and don't want to rebuild it now. My next major upgrade will be getting the new Phenom CPU provided Gigabyte will make a BIOS update for my board to support it. This upgrade is not going to cost me as much as buying a new card because i'd like to use the eVGA step up program and only will pay the price difference between 2 cards. Getting another GTS will cost me more and i was told that performance gains with SLI will be about 30% more than my current setup. Anyway, i gotta think about this a bit, thanks to all who made suggestions.

 

[MetalX]

And what if Gigabyte doesn't make that BIOS update? Then where will you be?

 

[flowerpower]

In that case i'll get a new board, which will be good as well. The Phenom will wirk with current Am2 boards but it will work better with AM2+ mobos. But all this about a year away, thats when i'm planning to do my CPU upgrade.