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will the amd athlon 64 x2 5000+ bottleneck the GT730 4GB

GordonCatman

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a friend of mine wants to upgrade his gpu, he has the gigabyte m52s-s3p (socket m2) mobo, 4 GB of DDR2 800mhz RAM and the amd athlon 64 x2 5000+ which is dual core @2.6 Ghz, he wants to but the GT730 4GB GDDR5, question is, will it get bottlenecked?
 
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It is possible, back in the day it didn't take much more than a 8800 GTX to see bottlenecking showing its face with my OC'ed 64 X2 5600+. Really though a minor bottleneck in a system that old doesn't mean much, still most things will be unplayable due to the extremely slow CPU.
It is possible, back in the day it didn't take much more than a 8800 GTX to see bottlenecking showing its face with my OC'ed 64 X2 5600+. Really though a minor bottleneck in a system that old doesn't mean much, still most things will be unplayable due to the extremely slow CPU.
 
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