Graphics will i get severe bottleneck

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  1. numanoid

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    Hi guys
    ive just bought myself an MSI 6950 twin frozr 3...Thing is im only using a stock Q6600 (i havent a clue about overclocking) and 4gb (2x2) crucial tracer memory (thanks Ian)....will i suffer severe bottleneck with my cpu and (or) memory
    thanks guys
    take care
     
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    j4mi3 What's a Dremel?

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    perhaps very slightly. if you have an aftermarket cooler, learn about overclocking and do it. if you dont, buy one and repeat step one. a decent aftermarket air cooler can be found for only about £40

    if i am right, i think your cpu is very overclockable? or am i thinking or a diff one

    this is obvs providing you have a decent mobo or your oc wont go far if at all
     
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    Bottleneck in what game or application?

    What motherboard are you running?
     
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    Cheers matey, im using a corsair H60 cooler, this Q6600 is very overclockable from what people have told me....i tried looking up overclocking but all this.... adjust this adjust that enable this disable that, if you do this then your memory will do this....It done my head in...gave up in the end :D my motherboard is the asus P5QL-E....but overclocking has me beat :waah:
    thanks matey
    take care
     
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    Hi ian
    well if i play the likes of all the medal of honor and call of duty games...battlefield 3 (when i get it) all the latest games.....as said overclocking for me is a :nono: :D
    take care matey
     
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    Whoops, that FSB setting & multi combination will give you a 3.6GHz clock which may be beyond your CPU limit and definitely should not be your starting point.

    Try starting with a multiplier of 9 and a FSB of 340. You should be able to drop the vcore down a bit as well, reducing temperatures.
     
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    :D i already tried the first lot you gave me lol...i changed the pci-e to 100 and the fsb to 400, could not find the others (mabe there named differently or something) so i saved the changes and rebooted, the temps shot up to 76c on most cores the lowest being 73c...so i reset to default settings lol
    i think ill give it a miss mate, i dont want my cpu to blow across the room lol
    thanks anyway ian
    take care matey
     
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    I could walk you through it, using the BIOS screenshots from the link I posted earlier but I can't do it now as I have to go out.

    Why don't we find out if you are actually bottlenecked first?

    Leave your setup as it is and run perfmon whilst gaming. Then exit the game and see if your CPU is actually running at 100%. If it is then an overclock will improve things, if it isn't then it is fine for your usage.

    Edit: this article makes me think that your Q6600 will be fine at stock speeds - http://www.techspot.com/review/458-battlefield-3-performance/page7.html.

    Of course it will be a bit faster when overclocked but I don't think it will be a bottleneck @ stock.
     
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    Cheers Ian, appretiate it mate....ill run perfmon and see how it goes
    thanks again matey
     
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    That article I linked was an analysis of CPU's under BF3, with MoH or CoD I don't think you'll have a problem at all @ stock.
     
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    I've got the same cpu and wondering this also if I bought a hd 6870
     
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    That Techspot article basically says that dual cores will be 100% utilised with BF3 whereas quad cores, even 2.0GHz clock speeds, will be fine.

    These charts show that with the same GPU and settings, there is very little difference between all the clock speeds...obviously excluding the dual cores.

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    They only saw a small FPS increase with a 100% clock speed increase.
     
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    Cheers for that Ian, in that case ill leave it at stock matey, thanks for all the help matey its very much appretiated
    take care
     

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