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Originally Posted by philbar71

i am going to upgrade my vid card soon to a 9600gt or 8800gt(s) and i was wondering if my processor will bottleneck. i ordered another gig of ram so i will have 2 gigs when it comes. and i want to know if i should upgrade my CPU or video card first the cpu would be a Newegg.com - Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 Conroe 3.0GHz 4M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor - CPUs / Processors
i also want to know if this a good processor.

A P4 will bottleneck a card like that yes but it will still play wonders better than your current 8500GT. Then when you have time to upgrade to a better CPU ( I recommend the E7200 for a great budget CPU. This will make another huge difference in your gaming as it's a much more powerful CPU and then the bottleneck on the 9600GT will be relieved.