E8400 at 3.8 Bottlenecking - Page 2 - Overclock.net

03-27-09

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DeadSkull

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Your e8400 @ 3.8 is not bottlenecking your 4870x2. Maybe your a few frames off what your 4870x2 would be doing with a i7 @ 3.8 but certainly whenever you get into gpu heavy games it will all come down to gpu bottleneck in the end.

Heres something that was posted a day ago in the news section.
Q9550 vs E8600 multi gpu test at Alienbabeltech.

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