will the new 8500 tax a 1.4 Athlon @ 1.575?

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just wana know that i won't be wasting my money if it is my system that is the roadblock on my performance highway. if not my sytem, then the video card it is!

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Only thing that COULD be a bottleneck on a system like yours is memory bandwidth. 2400 DDR ram would improve framerates slightly and if you could get some 2700 then that would be even better.

With my rig, I was thinking about 2400 but the prices were double that of 2100. I suppose I am quite happy with the fact that my 2100 can cope with upto 154FSB @ CAS3

If I got some Tt Heatsink spreaders, I could prolly hit CAS2 at that speed coz my system works for about 5-10mins before ram overheats at CAS2/150FSB.

BTW, the Radeon 8500 should kick a$$. When it comes to games, your graphics card is the only thing in your system that matters. I remember somewhere that some guy had a 1Ghz AXIA running at default speed with an overclocked GF3 (240/545) and his 3d2k1mk scores were 1000 higher than mine. I could have screamed. Just proves my point even more.

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hmmmmmmm then my ram must be a wee bit crappyer then yours because without heatsinks i can only make it to 140 cas2 :(