Will my cpu bottleneck an HD4670?

[BinLaden]

Hi folks,

I'm planning to buy a Radeon HD4670 to replace my HD3450 because I can't even play most of my old games at 1024x768 resolution because the frame rates become choppy.

Can I use this video card to it's full potential with my AMD Sempron 3100+ 1.8ghz, or will I notice a bottleneck from my cpu.

Also what do you guys think is the closest equivalent of my cpu to Intel, in terms of speed or performance?

[crazyeyesreaper]

that cpu will bottleneck that gpu as a 4670 beats out a 2900pro or whatever it is which was previous high gen and even back then those cards need a dualcore to shine but it would be a good gpu for say hold over purposes say use it for now put it in a new machine later as that 4670 is probably better then anything u will get from a prebuilt rig my only question is that sempron running on a PCIe x16 mobo or AGP as i know the 3000series had a few agp cards.

anyway if u plan to get a new computer later on either prebuilt or not that 4670 would be a nice carry over but at the moment yea you will be heavily cpu limited if my memory serves me right

[BinLaden]

My mobo is an ECS 761GX m754 which has one pcie x16 slot and no agp slot.

This is sad case for me, indeed.

[crazyeyesreaper]

you will see a rather large jump in performance that much is true what im saying is the machine itself is rather out of date not to rain on your parade

but the 4670 is usually pretty close to the ati 3850 in performance my main point being is

if you upgrade to a new machine at say wallmart or bestbuy god forbid you could drop the gpu in and gain a valuable performance upgrade if the machine has better then a 400watt psu as thats the recommended psu wattage. if your current machine can supply the card with enough juice you should see valuable performance gains in games etc that u play now

[Jstn7477]

If you have a socket 754 machine, there's nothing processor-wise you can really upgrade to unless you get a new board/CPU/RAM. Your CPU back in the day would be equivalent to maybe a 2.4-2.8GHz Intel Pentium 4. Everything today would probably noticeably outperform your current system.

[crazyeyesreaper]

yea thats the point i was making ^

but if he did drop in the gpu it would probably hold him over till he gets a new machine and just drop the gpu into that new machine as that 4670 will waste all the integrated gpus on the market as is

[Jstn7477]

Originally Posted by crazyeyesreaper

yea thats the point i was making ^

but if he did drop in the gpu it would probably hold him over till he gets a new machine and just drop the gpu into that new machine as that 4670 will waste all the integrated gpus on the market as is

Yes, that's true. I ran my 9800 GT on a s754 Athlon 64 2.4GHz and that still greatly bottlenecked it, but it and the slower 4670 still have more potential vs. the 3450.