Bottle neck

[water_cooler 20]

I'm soon going to order a R9800 256 VRAM and i wanted to know if my 256 MB of RAM and AXP 2100 will be a bottle neck

[PreservedSwine]

To some extent, yep....A faster cpu would be nice...or overclock like mad!

Some more RAM may help games load a bit faster as well....

[water_cooler 20]

Ok i will soon be ocing my cpu to the limt when i finsh up my custom phase change unit.

[Damian]

In the case of the 9800, any system will be a bottleneck to some extent.

[water_cooler 20]

what if i got it to 3ghz:rolleyes:

[IR1]

Yeah as long as its not a 3ghz Intel. That would still be a bottleneck.

[PhobMX]

this bottleneck stuff is just a gimmick, theres no point on running this card up to 400fps if the system is up to it... just put some stress on it and crank up the detail, that should take advantage of it even with your current system or mine

[water_cooler 20]

would my Monitor hold me back.Its a IBM Aptiva Monitor

[PhobMX]

not exactly... if your system spits 160FPS and your monitor works at 85 max you will only see 85 even though the computer proceses the whole deal... its not that it will slow down the system but it wont display it as it should either

[water_cooler 20]

but would i lose any detail in games

[PhobMX]

i dont think so, just make sure your monitor works at the max rated fps for that resolution and it shouldnt flicker nor get blurry