Best nvidia graphics card for a Q8200

[bushmins]

Im not one for wanting to over board on hardware and ill be on a budget. Whats the best card that will work best with my cpu?
Someone was going to give me a 460, would i get much more perfomance with a 560 or would the cpu bottle neck it? I also have a 550w psu, im guessing that will be fine for either card.

The cpu is at stock 2.33GHz. I tried overclocking but was never sure that i had set every correctly, so ill stick with it at stock for now.

 

[bushmins]

Any ideas?

 

[Phatzy]

Depend on what you going to use it for.

 

[Stonedofmoo]

The GTX460 would be an excellent match for your CPU. Ideally if you could overclock your CPU a little higher, i.e. 2.5Ghz or higher to match the graphics power.

Anything higher than the GTX460 will be wasted money really as your CPU would hold it back without a little overclocking to push the graphics along nicely.

Try this guide for the Q8200 overclocking. I've not read it, but it may give you some tips: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/overclock-phenom-pentium,2366-12.html

HTH!

 

[bushmins]

The GTX460 would be an excellent match for your CPU. Ideally if you could overclock your CPU a little higher, i.e. 2.5Ghz or higher to match the graphics power.

Anything higher than the GTX460 will be wasted money really as your CPU would hold it back without a little overclocking to push the graphics along nicely.

Try this guide for the Q8200 overclocking. I've not read it, but it may give you some tips: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/overclock-phenom-pentium,2366-12.html

HTH!

Thankyou very much. I know i can get it up to 2.8 with little hastle but didnt know if i had everything set correct due to getting a lanparty motherboard - all my overclocking was on the gigabyte boards.
Ill have a good read of that guide.

Thanks again.

 

[mickyflinn]

3ghz on the p35 motherboard is ideal, but beyond that there will be minimmal diffrence.