Will e5400@3.6Ghz Bottleneck GTX560?

[yabyyoyoboy]

title says all

my specs:
Intel Pentium Dual Core E5400 2.7GHZ@3.6
DDR3 Kingston 8GB
1TB HDD
G41m-combo
GTX560

 

[neon neophyte]

how many volts are you at?

 

[koreanzombie]

an e5400 may be old, but with that OC it shouldn't bottleneck a mid line card like the GTX 560 horribly.

 

[yabyyoyoboy]

how many volts are you at?

im at about 1.4v

 

[neon neophyte]

1.5v is the max you should even think about pushing a q6600 to. your temps are already as high as i would be comfortable pushing them though. 60 degrees is pretty darn warm for a q6600

 

[yabyyoyoboy]

1.5v is the max you should even think about pushing a q6600 to. your temps are already as high as i would be comfortable pushing them though. 60 degrees is pretty darn warm for a q6600

Now you kinda changed my mind, so I gave away my core 2 quad q6600 and got a q9300 which seems better which i overclocked to 3.2ghz stable at about 60c. Then I decided to try gta iv with max settings at 1680x1050 and guess wat. The fps was really low about 29-28fps? whats going on? I patched it already and it seems to make no dfference. I usually got about 40fps with my old graphics?

 

[neon neophyte]

http://lly316.blogspot.ca/2008/02/core-2-quad-q9300-vs-q6600-benchmark.html

no idea. beats out a q6600 on everything except unreal, with 100 less mhz.

 

[NoUserBar]

Might have to mess with the settings in your game. Did you get the proper drivers as well?

 

[yabyyoyoboy]

Might have to mess with the settings in your game. Did you get the proper drivers as well?

Ok i have reinstalled GTA IV and patched it and with everything low i get about 50fps but when maxed i get about 19fps?
Is that normal. I checked my scores in 3dmark and only got about 3700? is that normal?

 

[yabyyoyoboy]

So to everyone who has ready this, Will the new cpu bottleneck my gtx? Thanks for All ur help

 

[yabyyoyoboy]

Can Someone tell me now if a q9300 overclocked to 3ghz bottleneck gtx560 in sli?
Thanks