GPU Upgrade time

[Hybridtheory]

Hi all, hope your all well.

I've been looking at upgrading my GPU for a while now, im currently gaming at 1920x1080 and using a Q6600 cpu with a mild overclock, Asus P5Q pro mobo, 2x2gig 8500 ram, seasonic S12 psu and vista 64bit.

Whats my options for a gpu upgrade from a GTX260 ?( preferably Nvidia) i think maybe tho that perhaps my whole rig is knocking ona bit ? and i should consider a new rig in the nearer future. Games are still fairly playable but im having to come down a lot now on eye candy settings to keep a playable fps

Games im currently involved in are things like wow(mainly pve rading) starcraft, minecraft, crysis 2, BFBC2 and Eve online. Eve online is currently mincing my machine too, settings have had to come down very low.

I suppose im also worried about bottlenecking this system with a top end card, where do you guys read about whats an approximate match for CPU/Gpu combo's. I dont mind doing some reading about it all to help in a decision

Cheers all hope you can offer some advice

 

[Hybridtheory]

Something like this would be a nice upgrade.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-163-OK&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=2077

When you say you have a mild overclock on the Q6600 how much precisely do you mean? If you can get it to 3.2+ then it's still a good processor and shouldn't bottleneck a GTX 470. The mobo you've got should be capable of 3ghz +.

Hi again,

Im currently running at 8x400 3.2/1600fsb (1.4v cpu in bios) Dram is 400, 1: fsb/ram with timings of 5,5,5,15,52,2T.
I need a new cooler before i can push this any further due to only using the stock cooler. but im up for getting the most out of it when i do.

I been interested in the MSI GeForce GTX 560Ti OC Twin FrozR II 1024MB as thats within in my sort of pricerange just, and would carry over to my next system if i delay a new build due to the over clocking going well.

What do you think ?