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<blockquote data-quote="desiibond" data-source="post: 1444880" data-attributes="member: 23023"><p>Bottleneck is because your CPU is less powerful when compared to HD6850 and you need right balance to fully utilize the card. </p><p></p><p>For example, I had Athlon 3200+ when I first purchased HD4770 and many new games (at that time) used to lag a bit. Then, when I upgraded to X2 7750 BE, everything was butter smooth. The reason here is that the CPU was not able to drive the GPU and it was getting stressed. A bottleneck won't damage h/w, it just makes the h/w underperform which may or may not effect the application. </p><p></p><p>And secondly, you don't even need a HD6850 to play at that resolution. You will be underutilizing your card till you upgrade your monitor to FullHD and then your CPU will be a bigger bottleneck for GPU. If you are thinking of future proofing, then by the time you upgrade your rig in the future, you may get a card as powerful as HD6850 inside 10k. So, do an incremental upgrade starting with PSU and then CPU, then the display and finally the GPU. If you just want a GPU right now, get HD5770. It is enough.</p><p></p><p>this should make you understand the concept of bottleneck: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottleneck" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottleneck</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="desiibond, post: 1444880, member: 23023"] Bottleneck is because your CPU is less powerful when compared to HD6850 and you need right balance to fully utilize the card. For example, I had Athlon 3200+ when I first purchased HD4770 and many new games (at that time) used to lag a bit. Then, when I upgraded to X2 7750 BE, everything was butter smooth. The reason here is that the CPU was not able to drive the GPU and it was getting stressed. A bottleneck won't damage h/w, it just makes the h/w underperform which may or may not effect the application. And secondly, you don't even need a HD6850 to play at that resolution. You will be underutilizing your card till you upgrade your monitor to FullHD and then your CPU will be a bigger bottleneck for GPU. If you are thinking of future proofing, then by the time you upgrade your rig in the future, you may get a card as powerful as HD6850 inside 10k. So, do an incremental upgrade starting with PSU and then CPU, then the display and finally the GPU. If you just want a GPU right now, get HD5770. It is enough. this should make you understand the concept of bottleneck: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottleneck[/url] [/QUOTE]
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