will my cpu bottleneck my hd 4870?

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#1 Canine_Knight
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lately ive been seeing more and more cpu's oc to as high as 4.0ghz and such and was wondering at what point my e6600 at 3.0ghz will be a bottleneck to my hd 4870 and whether or not i should oc it more

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#2 Spartan8907
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You'll be fine with that CPU for a while longer. I wouldn't worry about it for another year or so.
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#3 darkgoth678
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You'll be fine with that CPU for a while longer. I wouldn't worry about it for another year or so.Spartan8907
I agree with Spartan, I think you'll be ok although I would probably clock it back to stock when I'm jsut surfing the web and stuff like that and clock it back up when im gaming to get the most life out of it because if you leave it clocked that high all the time you'll be lucky if you keep that thing running in one year.
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#4 johnny27
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damn i wish i had ur processor :( im stuck with a 2.8ghz 5600+ amd its slow and no chance of overclocking it with my motherboard and defintly bottle necks my 4870 1G
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#5 AdamPA1006
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lately ive been seeing more and more cpu's oc to as high as 4.0ghz and such and was wondering at what point my e6600 at 3.0ghz will be a bottleneck to my hd 4870 and whether or not i should oc it more

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I got the exact same setup, an E6600 at 3.0GHZ. But I got a 6600GTX instead.
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#6 X360PS3AMD05
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It's fine, but if you can OC more there's nothing wrong with that...
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#7 imprezawrx500
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its fine
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damn i wish i had ur processor :( im stuck with a 2.8ghz 5600+ amd its slow and no chance of overclocking it with my motherboard and defintly bottle necks my 4870 1Gjohnny27

wut mobo do u aheve because i dbout that u cnt overclock that proc...

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#9 Canine_Knight
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bump, more opinions please