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Gainward GeForce GTX 260

Mikey

Mikey

Mikey

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Looking at offer of the week and wondering how much better this would be over a 9800GT in a Q6600?

Or should I go the ATI route, as when I upgrade I'd look to go for SLI or CrossFire
 
CPU and mobo are fine, though if your not overclocking your CPU, I would strongly suggest you do to at least 3ghz, at stock the Q6600 will be a bottleneck.
 
Just started to O/C it last night, but it's a B3 Q6600, up at 2.7 atm.

Got a Noctua on it, but need to get settings for the O/C right with PC6400 RAM

Don't normally do 0%, but could do one of these and another 4GB
 
Just slap it on 333Mhz x 9 with your memory at 2.5x multi.

Then bung a few extra volts through it until its stable ;)
 
Manually set the voltages - almost guarantee the CPU will do 3gig on stock voltage - auto will up it to like 1.4-1.45 for 3gig even tho it only needs 1.3-.1325... 1.35 at worst.

If you already have an SLI motherboard then a second 9800GT would be a decent performance upgrade aslong as your not VRAM limited.

If you are going to spend money on an upgrade the 5850 has more future proofing to offer but it is quite a bit more money.
 
Hi,

It's just a single 9800GT and I thought about upgrading the board for a CrossFire, but with all that expense I thought i5.

I'll overclock and then look at the GPU again. Prob will change it
 
I got my q6600 running at 3.20ghz on a gigabyte p45 board, I've not touched the voltages and just let the board sort it out :)

I'm using it with a 260gtx which is still good enough to run pretty much anything on high settings, but you can do better for the money now.
 
On auto I can get to about 2.8Ghz at the moment. When I went for 3Ghz it wouldn't boot

I've notice Auto is feeding about 1.4v to the CPU acording to CPU-Z

I need to turn off Speed Step I expect
 
Also make sure PCI-e bus is locked to 100 or 101 - on auto it will rise far too high causing all sorts of problems.
 
I also agree that a 5850 would be the better option. The GTX260s are old tech, not worth bothering with any more if you're buying a new graphics card. Same goes for the 4800s too.
 
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