The question is what the thread is titled, do I have a bottleneck?
If I do have a bottleneck how much?

System Specs:
Asus A8N-Sli Deluxe Motherboard
2 Gigs of Mushkin Ram running at 2-2-2-6 (400Mhz)
AMD 4200+ Overclocked to 2.8Ghz (FSB 255)

Resolution I will be using is 1680x1050.

I did search and most of the threads i saw were a little vague for my taste/Did not include my resolution.

Thank you for reading .

What is your video card?

Must have inadvertently deleted that line.
My video card is an EVGA 8800GT.

Is there a game you are playing that you are unhappy with the framerates, or quality?

I'm not unhappy with the games I play I just would like to get every last bit of performance i can out of a piece of hardware. In this case if I am bottlenecking I would want to overclock my CPU more(if I can) to come as close as i can to what the card can do. If I am not bottlenecking then I would want to overclock my video card.

Yes, it is bottlenecking, but not much. For that generation of cards it would be sufficient but the next-gen cards such as the 9800GTX+, yup. For the GTX280/RV770 generation it will bottleneck. What games do you play tho? I only play on integrated so I don't know...

Hm.. 4200+ to 2.8 ghz? 500 mhz Oc is good for athlonx2 Oo.
Well at 2.8 ghz you should be ok. There is a bottleneck, but not much. I mean, if you use a 6400+ or an Oc'ed Phenom, you won't see much of improvement. Athlon dual cores are actually good for gaming and at that speed don't bottleneck so much.
And if you say you play at 16x10, then you should be twice than ok. At hat resolution, GPu role is much superios than the CPU role. So if you want an improvement in fps at that resolutin, the OC will definitaly give you some extra FPS.


Christopher

I frequent both old and new games(in terms of technology).

The Old: Warcraft 3, TF2 and various other HL2 Mods, Fallout Tactics, Psychonauts (one of the best games ever created), Emulators.

The new: Age of Conan, Bioshock, Crysis

My Need to play List includes Farcry 2, Fallout 2, and a few others.

Thanks Christopher. Your message was posted while I was replying so instead of double posting I just edited it into this Post.

Only games where it is likely to be a noticable bottleneck ie less than 60fps are games like world in conflict or supreme commander. All other games, that cpu is going to good for at least 60fps.


Lower your res to 840*640 with no filters and you will see what frame rate cap your cpu imposes.

I'm going to throw something different into the mix!

"2 Gigs of Mushkin Ram running at 2-2-2-6 (400Mhz)"

Are you running DDR RAM as opposed to DDR2? If so, this is quite possibly where your problem lies.

Also, AMD don't have FSB, they use HyperTransport!

I am going to ignore the ignorance of this post.

Excuse me?

The answer to your question was answered in my original post. An A8N-Sli Deluxe only supports DDR Ram.

Also Where are you going to find ddr2 ram that runs at 400mhz with timings of 2-2-2-6?

Finally, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_side_bus might help you out.

So there's your bottleneck then IMO.

Hence my post.

The performance difference between DDR and DDR2 is not huge. I mean sure ram over 800mhz is going to start to out perform my DDR but not enough to cause a significant bottleneck in this situation.