Originally posted by: cich1012
Asus a8n-sli premium MOBO
1024 OCZ ram 2-3-6-2
AMD 63 3500 cpu (Venice)
2 x BFG 7800 GTX
Maxtor 120 gig 7200 rpm 8mb buffer SATA
Audigy 2
Originally posted by: Stoneburner
The only bottlenecks for PC"s are hard drives and bank accounts.
Originally posted by: aeternitas
Originally posted by: Swanny
Hard drive might be your bottleneck. I'd get something SATA.
?? No. SATA doesnt magically make his hard drive faster. That drive isnt even saturation its IDE 98% of the time. Why do people keep saying this?
The only bottleneck in your system is your hard drive. Get two to four of the smallest and fastest lil fscker hard drives you can get your hands on (RAID0 or 5) and slap your OS on it.
Contray to what people have said around here (6 months ago) RAID0 does loosten the bottleneck in a way nothing else can for your hard drive. %10-%50 improvement in drive wait.
Originally posted by: cich1012
Everyone keeps telling me my system is bottlenecking or will be bottlenecking h
HOW AM I BOTTLENECKING.
Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
Originally posted by: Bona Fide
You're running dual 7800GTX's. Anything short of a 6GHz processor is going to be a bottleneck.
In your case, this is the bottleneck: The graphics cards are too powerful for the CPU and the CPU can't keep up with their power, so they have to downshift to match the CPU's power. Some of their potential is being wasted.
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I don't know where you got your info, but its just wrong. Link some benchmarks to prove your point. The benches that I've seen with using 6800u for instance show a 1-3 FPS diff between a 3000+ at 1.8mhz and an FX55 at 2.6ghz. And where is this 6ghz CPU? And as the OP stated he's running his CPU at 2.7ghz how is this a bottleneck?
I have a buddy running an XP2800 s754 system @ 1.6mhz with a 6800GT, and his 3dmark scores PWN mine with a SD3700+ @ 2.8ghz and a 6600GT.