8800GTX does not bottle neck at high resolutions!

http://channel.tomshardware.com/2007...cs/page10.html

Check it out. Toms Hardware tested 3 different systems using up-to-date components: they made a budget, mid line, and top of the line system. Later on, they swapped out the 7600 GT from the budget system and threw in a 8800GTX an kept the Athlon X2 3800+ and 1GB of ram in the system.

They tested using 3D Mark 2005, Doom 3, FEAR, and Oblivion to monitor frame rates per second. The bottle neck was obvious at lower resolutions, however when you crank up the resolution, the tables swapped and the budget system (around $255 less) was cranking out nearly TWICE the number of frame rates as the mid line system (1600x1200 with 4xAA and above).

For those of you getting ready to build a new system, I suggest you read this article. It just opened up my eyes to another aspect of building a computer. Great, exactly what I need, more decisions... Any opinions? They did mention that they would never recommend such an unbalanced system, however numbers are numbers. What do you think?

That's actually pretty good. I'm basically getting everything in the mid-range system (though better parts, and I save some money on not buying a case, and some discounts), and that's actually pretty interesting. I might save myself some money now, thanks to you. I'll have to read the entire thing later tonight.

Hmm MSI K9N4 Ultra-F and 880GTX
World's worst mobo and world's best GFX card. Plus the mobo can't take SLi so that is a really unfair test. And those set up's are horrible, MSI boards are a piece of junk for gaming anyhow.

I wouldn't expect it to bottleneck running a 384 bit memory bus!