Bottleneck question

[General_Terror]

Will a Sandy Bridge Pentium G620 http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=53480 , be a bottleneck for an HD 6850 or 6870 ?

It's Passmark CPU Mark score is 2479, above a C2D E8500's 2416, but, Intel's site says it's supported memory type is only DDR3-1066.

 

[HEXiT]

with only 2 cores it will be on most new high profile games.
any game that was developed on a console. really requires a tri core cpu. they will work on a pc dual, but with some limitations.
newer games like BFBC2 and witcher 2 will need 4 cores minimum as it was dev'd on pc.
if you only have a dual it will limit the gfx to 50% or less gpu usage... so not only will your cpu bottleneck your gpu will be underused also...

so if you can afford to upgrade to a quad even if its slower than the dual do so.
but try to aim for 2.4 as a minimum... then again getting a 2.2 sandy means you will still get it to run at 3.0 with turbo...

if you cant afford a sandy quad then look at an amd quad. the 955 is still a worthy cpu and pretty cheap.

 

[henydiah]

Pentium G620 is Low end SB and HD 6850 high-end GPU .. this system very very bottleneck.

 

[geofelt]

There is always some limiting factor. I would not call it a bottleneck.
For gaming, it will usually be the graphics card. With a 6850, you have that part covered.
Here is a review which includes a G620, using a 6970. In summary, the G620 acquits itself surprisingly well:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/pentium-g850-g840-g620_4.html

 

[General_Terror]

Best answer selected by General_Terror.

 

[HEXiT]

i guess some are just looking to hear what they want to hear not the reality...
see you in a few weeks in pc gaming when you come and ask us why need for speed shift 2 only gives you 20fps

 

[General_Terror]

i guess some are just looking to hear what they want to hear not the reality...
see you in a few weeks in pc gaming when you come and ask us why need for speed shift 2 only gives you 20fps

So true. But I was going to get this for my little brother who occupies my computer to play Doom3.