Is it bottlenecking my card?

I just bought a x1950xt 256mb and it gets the following in some games (I play at 1280 x 1024)cs:s-maxed avg fps 120hl2-maxed 60+fpsoblivion maxed plus some new texture packs - 20+fpsdoom 3-maxed avg fps 70Now the problem is I think I'm being bottlenecked by my pentium D and 1 gig of ram. Because in Doom3 it stutters sometimes but not badly. The reason I think I am is because even if I turn down the settings in my games I get about the same fps. In the fear free multiplayer it stutters so badly its not even playable even when the cpu settings are minimum and the video is set to high (I think the problem is my card can't handle it) What could I do to reduce the overall stuttering in my games? Is it bottlenecking my card?
YesIs it bottlenecking my card?
But no. Its not bottlenecking thats the problem its the fact that the rest of your parts suck. That may seem like its bottlenecking but its not. Bottlenecking wont make you loose that many FPS.
There seems to be a huge miscomprehension about when and how a CPU or GPU/VPU can serve to throttle the other's speed down, and this forum has twice as much of that erronneous information sloshing around in here than anywhere else I know of.Tom's hardware did numerous benchmarking tests not so long ago, and at least disproved the kind just repeated here this time in this thread. Sure, the Pentium D was too little, too late, and didn't catch up to the A64s worth a flip. But the P4-D still keeps up with just about any video card there is in just about every game. Oblivion is probably an exception. I'll look for a link to the THG article to attach that. OK, this is it:http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/05/11/system_builder_marathon/page11.html
Wow those are some pretty big differences at lower resolutions i guess inkow what is keeping my system from maxing out c%26c 3 with out geting 30 constant fps with eight players its my processor or ram (but i dont think ram matters to much on performance just loading times). :/
Why can I max out oblivion then but my fear performance is bad? (if you want to be technical I usually play without AA but I've played with 6AA at max grass shadows, high shadow filtering and it's been playable)edit: at kiwi1 I worded my posts poorly, it's not that I think my video card is being held back I meant to ask if cpu is holding my games back because it can't handle things like physics and AI.
If you can get into a mob scene of a fight in Oblivion, particularly with several four-footed animals (seems to take a lot more CPU, and especially for PCs that use onboard audio), and not have the animation start to drag, I would look at FEAR carefully, because it's my own understanding that it is only ''close to'' as demanding on a system as Oblivion, not moreso. Visit the Tweak Guides web site and see what he has compiled about FEAR.
[QUOTE=''Kiwi_1'']If you can get into a mob scene of a fight in Oblivion, particularly with several four-footed animals (seems to take a lot more CPU, and especially for PCs that use onboard audio, and not have the animation start to drag, I would look at FEAR carefully, because it's my own understanding that it is only ''close to'' as demanding on a system as Oblivion, not moreso. Visit the Tweak Guides web site and see what he has compiled about FEAR.[/QUOTE]Thanks I have been in ''mob seens and it's only gone done to about 15 but maybe that's because I have quiet feet installed. I've also been to tweakguides and read pretty much every guide on there (boredom does things to you) I guess I'll just fiddle with the settings in FEAR and figure out what I can tone down and maybe purchase the full game to see how the single player.

what pd have you got? it could be a ram limitation, upgrading to 2gb will make a difference
For F.E.A.R. 1GB, isn't good. Not for High Settings and decent res.

[QUOTE=''imprezawrx500'']what pd have you got? it could be a ram limitation, upgrading to 2gb will make a difference[/QUOTE]It's a Pentium D smithfield at 3ghz with some pc3200 ram

[QUOTE=''achilles614''][QUOTE=''imprezawrx500'']what pd have you got? it could be a ram limitation, upgrading to 2gb will make a difference[/QUOTE]It's a Pentium D smithfield at 3ghz with some pc3200 ram
[/QUOTE] I would say its ram limitations, get another gig of ram, my old athlon xp 3000 had no issues with doom 3, but I did have 1.5gb of ram which makes a big difference. The doom 3 engine is very hungry for ram, especilly with a 256mb card. It takes 2 gb ram to max out quake 4 with a 256mb graphics card adn doom 3 isn't much different