Will 2.0ghz T6400 bottleneck 9600m GT 512 GDDR3

As i said will the t6400 bottleneck the 9600m GT 512 GDDR3 for GAMING oops

Thanks

Specs below.

Acer Aspire 6935

Windows Vista® Home Premium , Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T6400 (2M Cache, 2.00 GHz, 800 MHz FSB), 16" WUXGA Full HD Acer CineBrite™ TFT LCD, 2*2GB RAM, 320GB 5400rpm Hard Disk Drive, Blu-ray Disc™/DVD-Super Multi double-layer drive, Mobile Intel® PM45 Express Chipset with nVidia 9600M GT- 512MB VRAM, Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N Wi-Fi CERTIFIED® , 6 cell Li-ion Battery, 6-in-1 card reader (SD™, MMC, MMCplus™, MS, MS PRO, xD), 1.0 MP HD Crystal Eye Webcam, Bluetooth 2.0, Acer Bio-Protection fingerprint solution, Dolby® Home Theatre Digital Surround Sound Technology, McAfee® Internet Security Suite 60 Day Trial

 

I guess it would depend on the type of tasks (or games) you may run, whether they are more CPU-intensive or GPU-intensive. But, I think both are high-end Budget components, and well, probably should be fine together depending upon what sort of deal you're getting.

 

Those two are well matched.

Learux

 

Well, I personally have a P7350 ... a 2.0 Ghz C2D (Penryn) in combo with my 9600m GT GDDR3 and everything works fine.

 

According to passmark the T6400 only gets 1.36% lower score than the P7350 , the 25watt TDP is nice though.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php

 

9600m GT will be 100% the bottleneck. No question about it.

 

The T6400 should be sufficient in most games. The only uncertainty I would have is in games such as GTA4, but then again, those are pretty graphically intensive games, and would likely be bottlenecked by your GPU anyway.

 

You will be fine as midnightsun says only CPU intesive games such as strategy games namely Supreme Commander and GTA4 will perform alot better with a faster processor. Crysis also seems to like faster clock speeds too with lower end GPU's

 

Again this is simply an incorrect statement. The GPU will choke WAY before the CPU.

 

Grim, how about you stop deriding people for repeating commonly held knowledge without some backing evidence? Not ALL games are going to be 100% GPU bound all the time, even on this rig. Most games, with most graphics settings, yes, but far from all. The 8600 GT is an old mid range card, but it's still far better than an IGP or a number of other cards out there. Some games will bottleneck on the CPU first, depending upon settings and how you play them.

 

What I said was derived from experience using the rig in my sig with a card very similar to the OP's 9600M GT and I can tell you a decent processor can increase the performance(to a limited level and resolution) in many games even when coupled with a mid range card. Your post is just unnessary and unhelpful to the OP and his questions.
To the OP: Your processor is adequate but always get the best you can afford as it won't hurt to have that extra performance.

 

Well, let me tell you about my experience. My family just bought 2 laptops with the T6400 combined with the HD 4650 mobile, a fairly good card and that cpu bottlenecks the hell out of everything. I tried on both computers and I got sub par framerates on DOD:S and Red Orchestra. Games that this 4650 should kill. I mean it will drop all the way to 33 alot even on the lowest settings. Upping the resolution and to max settings does nothing to the frame rate it still dips alot in the same places which leads me to believe on both computers that this processor sucks. Maybe it's just paried with the 4650 that might be the case. But I would not buy this processor for gaming.

 

I believe the HD4650 is a faster newer generation card than the 9600M GT so it could be a little bottlenecked. Try to overclock the processor using setfsb.

 

Dude, I'll give that a shot. I just checked out FSB and I was trying to find a way to overclock just to test if doing that would help. I'm pretty sure it is the processor due to the fact that upping the game to the absolute highest resolution with full AA and full high settings gets the exact same fps as setting at the 2nd lowest with min setting and no AA. This is my for 4 year old games like Red Orchestra, DOD and MOH: Airborne. This comp should kill those games.