How bad would a 6800 GT bottleneck with this system...

[vindrow]

I am going to upgrade my graphics card and was looking at the 6800 GT, but was wondering with my system how bad would the card get bottlenecked:


system specs:

Gigabyte 7VT600-RZ(-C) mobo
3200+ amd athelon xp barton
1 GB PC2100 ddr ram (soon to be 1.7 GB)
2 80 gig HDD at 7200 rpm
430 watt EZ Media PSU


IF this setup would bottleneck the card too much, then what cards should i be looking at..I can spend up to $350.00 for a new card.






Thanks

[Pitch]

IMO, you should be fine with that, however I would suggest instead of added more ram (realistically 1GB is enough), look to replace what you have with faster ram, eg 2700, 3200.

Other than that, nice system.

[alexkerhead]

Originally Posted by vindrow

I am going to upgrade my graphics card and was looking at the 6800 GT, but was wondering with my system how bad would the card get bottlenecked:


system specs:

Gigabyte 7VT600-RZ(-C) mobo
3200+ amd athelon xp barton
1 GB PC2100 ddr ram (soon to be 1.7 GB)
2 80 gig HDD at 7200 rpm
430 watt EZ Media PSU


IF this setup would bottleneck the card too much, then what cards should i be looking at..I can spend up to $350.00 for a new card.






Thanks

dont worry, it should be just fine.

[RussianMissile1]

i would suggest ddr400 ram, so that the processor and ram run at 1:1 ratio. this will bump up performance quite a bit.

[GrahamGarside]

that system will be fine, the card its self will be the bottleneck most of the time because almost all processing is done on it these days
I left my a64 clocked at 800mhz by mistake yesterday and noticed rome total war was a bit slower than I expected but still playable and other games weren't noticeabley affected which shows how little impact the cpu has on performance of games
I aree with the other suggestions for memory though, while performance will be fine with what you have after the vid upgrade memory will be the next biggest improvement, unless you need 1.7gb for something (I can't think what because I have a gig and the page file is never touched even in cubase and photoshop) then replacing your current memory with at least ddr333 and preferabley ddr400 will give the best gains and selling your old memory should mean it's not too expensive
by the way I've not heard of that psu make, is it a good psu or a cheap one that came with a case? If it's a cheap one even though it claims 430W it may not be up to task with a 6800 card