good card for my processor

What is a good card to go with my current processor?

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ 2.30 ghz

I'm thinking about a 9800gtx or maybe even a 260gtx, what do you think?good card for my processor
yeah that would be fine. you might want to wait for the newest card that comes out in januraygood card for my processor
9800GTX+ because anything more will be bottlenecked, even that card might be as well.
Thanks, but anyway for the card to not get bottlenecked without getting a new processor?
Not really....
OK thanks.
depending on budget hd 4670 on up
[QUOTE=''beex215'']depending on budget hd 4670 on up[/QUOTE]

Wouldn't the 4670 get bottlenecked by my processor?
i doubt it. its a good card for the money. here are the cards that i was looking at when i decided to buy a new gpu. all of them are price/performence cards. all under $150 some after rebate hd 46709600thd 48309800gthd 48509800gtx
[QUOTE=''T3AMKILL'']What is a good card to go with my current processor?

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ 2.30 ghz

I'm thinking about a 9800gtx or maybe even a 260gtx, what do you think?[/QUOTE]Not those cards as your processor is weak. A more suitable card would be 9600GT. what the equivalent ATI card is 3870 or 4830.
If I get the 9800gtx, how bad would it be bottlenecked?
I was in a very similar position about a year ago with the same CPU (mine was oc'd to 2.6). Feel free to get any of those great cards, 9800gtx included.. Just know that the same card will get you better results with a faster CPU. To be honest, it takes about a Core 2 Duo @ 2.7-3ghz or higher to eliminate most of the CPU bottleneck with a card like that. How much of a bottleneck your CPU will be also depends heavily upon the games you play. For some games, you will get plenty of performance out of that cpu/gpu combo (alot of FPS and sports games). For other games (existing RTS games or some racing sims, or most of the newer games upcoming in general) you will wish you had a faster CPU.Do you like to crank up AA/AF in games? If so, having a more powerful video card with more memory is never a bad thing. It's OK to have a cpu bottleneck, as long as the bottleneck isn't keeping the games from playing at an enjoyable level of performance for you.
[QUOTE=''hartsickdiscipl'']I was in a very similar position about a year ago with the same CPU (mine was oc'd to 2.6). Feel free to get any of those great cards, 9800gtx included.. Just know that the same card will get you better results with a faster CPU. To be honest, it takes about a Core 2 Duo @ 2.7-3ghz or higher to eliminate most of the CPU bottleneck with a card like that. How much of a bottleneck your CPU will be also depends heavily upon the games you play. For some games, you will get plenty of performance out of that cpu/gpu combo (alot of FPS and sports games). For other games (existing RTS games or some racing sims, or most of the newer games upcoming in general) you will wish you had a faster CPU.Do you like to crank up AA/AF in games? If so, having a more powerful video card with more memory is never a bad thing. It's OK to have a cpu bottleneck, as long as the bottleneck isn't keeping the games from playing at an enjoyable level of performance for you. [/QUOTE]

I don't mind if AA/AF is on or off,but if I can max the game smoothly then I turn them on, and I don't play on high resolutions( usually just 1024*768 ). I would like to play Crysis on a mix of High/Very high on 1024*768
If you're playing at that resolution, don't buy anything above an 8800 or 9800gt. Why don't you want to play at a higher Res than that? 1280x1024? These video cards can play Crysis at those settings just fine at either resolution.
If you aim Cryisis with a 4600x2 Remind you something it will lag horrible compare to newest AMD Deneb / Intel Core i7 / Core 2 duo / COre 2 Quad IF you doesn't belief me il show you something That is Reality SInce none did franchise this information il be giving them it important to Give the Right information TO the Topic Creator which is Teamill121 http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=775%26p=5
as You can see there are 3 Color But if you go see other page
Black = 1440x900 = SImilary to 1280x1024 = Similary to 1024x780 in performances
The blue is for 200$ monitor (1680x1050)
The Red is 300-500$ (1920x1200) 22inch %26 higher
[img]http://www.legionhardware.com/Bench/CPU_Scaling_With_The_GeForce_GTX_280/Crysis.png[/img]
as you can see the 280GTX which is simialry to 260GTX 216 core which is similary to 9800GTX+ Overclocked in 10-15fps near the cpu you are given will hugely bottleneck most of the game not that dual core ain't great but it that amd made it time with the 4600x2 and as lost to power of the intel for that generation
mean while the deneb Which is a newer Generation coming 9th january as am2+ / Am3 motherboard compatible with the new Dragon Layout It will be really Great but yet I can't confirmate price for 3.0ghz Quad core Phenom II (deneb) %26 the motherboard Dragon That come with a integrated Hybrid Crossfire ATI HD 4000