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Originally Posted by hikaricloud  Never said a 7750/7850 was top of the line, that would be pretty foolish. But a bottleneck is a bottleneck. Any really nice video card will still be bottlenecked by the Celeron, not so much for Crysis requirements.
Besides, at 1024x768, a GTX 260 would be overkill if you ask me, the GTS 250 is more than enough to handle it, especially for that cost. |
Aside form it's cache the e1400 is identical to the e2180 and since I have been running one of those for more than a year I feel I have a pretty good idea how the Celeron performs. At 2.8ghz which is 100% Intel Burn Test stable on stock voltage my e2180 can handle Crysis or any other game or application just fine. Since I'm not running a GTX 260 I can't comment on how it might be bottlenecked however I wouldn't let that possibility stop me from upgrading to one. Based on my experiences using a HD 4850 and a slower athlon x2 I doubt the GTS 250 would be bottleneck by the e1400 provided it was overclocked to at least 2.5ghz as I mentioned earlier.
The reason I pointed out the 7850 isn't a high end cpu is if he bought it he would essentially be switching one budget cpu for another, slightly faster, one. Besides if he got a good board and cooler for the e1400 it could likely be overclocked to equal the 7850's stock performance. I'm not debating the fact that the 7850 is better but I don't think it is worth the $135 upgrade price (mobo +cpu).
I missed were he said he played at 1024x768, I assumed he would be playing at 720p based off of his display. The GTS 250 would be good taking that into account.