g51vx cpu bottleneck?

I am thinking of buying the ASUS g51vx with a t7350 2.0ghz core 2 duo and 260m gtx.

But I am afraid the slow CPU will be a bottleneck for games like crysis and MW2.

Anyone have any opinions or experience with this???

 

I'm using the q9000 quad @ 2.3Ghz and still need to turn things down in Crysis for fluid movement. In my opinion if you want to play demanding games I would try for the fastest CPU you can afford. Mind you my standards for games being playable might be different. 2.0Ghz is OK for sure, but I would be turning things down and not running in max settings at that speed.

 

With an overclock to 2.25 GHz, you should be able to play most games with excellent frame rates, especially since the native resolution on that particular Asus isn't that great.

 

I find 3.5 ghz to be slow. Need .....4 ghz.................

 

your crysis framerates have little to do with your CPU, it is your GTX260m that is punishing you. Even the high-end desktop GPUs have trouble with it.

 

Forge, what's the max your T9900 will go?

I'm maxed @ 3.5, it Blue Screens with Orthos if I try 3.6. Not sure if it's the core or memory that can't handle it (probably the CPU, as these memory should be able to go near DDR2 1066 I'm thinking).

 

I actually haven't tried. I'm too concerned with undervolting. But hey, I'll fiddle with it on one of my days off. I don't feel like BSODing at the moment.

 

Heh, undervolting the CPU will just make it less stable. The T9900 doesn't need to be undervolted, it runs cool enough as it is...28C idle running at 3.5ghz, 62C Load in Orthos.

It's too bad that Intel BurnTest absolutely fries the Northbridge....

 

Oh my undervolts are solid. 25 minutes of OCCT small data packs or whatever the option is called.

With the mod I have on the backpanel--namely the fan hole--my idle temperatures aren't as good as when I had the hole covered. However, as you guys saw in that one picture, my load temperatures are wicked awesome.

Except for my hard drives. After a two-hour gaming session ( Wolfenstein) my HDDs were maxed at about 47C. Still safe, to be sure, but much warmer than I'm used to. I'd better get the intel matrix controllers back on them.

 

You may end up going back to stock Voltage once you decide to use the T9900 to its full potential

My HDD is idle pretty much all the time, so it stays at 30C. It's sitting directly on top of the foam, held in my some pieces of foam and held down by mounting tape (two pieces is thick enough for the backpanel to apply pressure).

My Intel SSD doesn't have a temp sensor, but it's sitting in the aluminum cage, and I'm sure is probably under 20C.