GTX 285/AMD 6400+

[kohd]

Would a 6400+ CPU (AMDX2 3.2GHz 90nm I believe) bottleneck a GTX 285?

 

[jennyh]

Yes.

 

[kohd]

Yes it would. Look at the HD 5850. It's cheaper and faster then the 285 but not till you upgrade that processor

This isn't for me, but for a fellow gamer I was talking to. He already has the CPU and GPU. We were trying to dissect a performance problem and the dreaded 'bottleneck' term came up ;P I'm just no good at explaining things so I thought I'd jump over here and ask the pros.

 

[jyjjy]

An HD4850 or a GTS 250 are probably a proper match for that CPU.
Then again the GTX 285 is very expensive and for roughly the same money you could get an AM3 motherboard, a quad core Athlon II, a few gigs of DDR3 ram and an HD4870 1gb.

 

[shadow187]

The quad-core athlon II's are around 100$, IIRC. 4GB DDR3 = 60, AM3 mobo ~70, 4870 ~140, 370$.

Either way, it's time for a CPU upgrade.