graphics card upgrade

[beanie414]

hi im looking to upgrade my Nvidia Geforce 8800GTX 768MB PCIe Graphics card and seeking advice on what to get i have £150-£200 to spend i will be using it for gaming and i will probably use 32" tv at times for watching films etc heres some system specs,what would fit into this motherboard im not computer savvy enough to change that,would i need to change anything like my power etc any advice is appreciated ty in advance

windows 7
Intel Core 2 Q6600 2.4GHz Quad Core
Asus P5Q Motherboard LGA775
6 GBMemory
Nvidia Geforce 8800GTX 768MB PCIe Graphics
Corsair 620watt Modular PSU
Coolermaster Mystique 631 silver Aluminium Case
24" monitor

 

[dave_beast]

Welcome to the forums

7850 2GB and overclock it, however, you may need to overclock your 6600 to get the best out of a GPU upgrade. Your PSU will be fine with this card.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-052-HS

the Q6600's I've used both needed about 1.34V in bios to run stable at 3.2Ghz, which was equal to 1.28V in windows according to HWMonitor and CPU-Z

 

[beanie414]

hi and thanks for reply i was looking at that card earlier just wasnt sure if my computer could run it ok,i havent over clocked anything before so not too sure i want to try it atm in case i make a mistake is my comp still ok to run it withought oc,also some one i know suggested radeon 6870 1GB GDDR5 i know thats cheaper wasnt sure of the diff though im not really clued up on graphics cards ty

 

[Marine-RX179]

You are running your Q6600 on a P5Q board on stock clock? What a waste

Just grab a beefy CPU cooler, put 1.45-1.5v on the vcore and pump the clock speed up to 3.6GHz.

The 6870 WAS a great card at sub-£150. But now that the 7850 is down to £150, you'd crazy to get a 6870 over it for such a small price difference. In fact the 1GB version of the 7850 is around the same price as the 6870, plus comes with 3 free games as well (not that I'm encouraging you to get the 1GB version over the 2GB version, but it's just for your reference).

 

[Gregster]

Welcome to the forums

7850 2GB and overclock it, however, you may need to overclock your 6600 to get the best out of a GPU upgrade. Your PSU will be fine with this card.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-052-HS

You are running your Q6600 on a P5Q board on stock clock? What a waste

Just grab a beefy CPU cooler, put 1.45-1.5v on the vcore and pump the clock speed up to 3.6GHz.

The 6870 WAS a great card at sub-£150. But now that the 7850 is down to £150, you'd crazy to get a 6870 over it for such a small price difference. In fact the 1GB version of the 7850 is around the same price as the 6870, plus comes with 3 free games as well (not that I'm encouraging you to get the 1GB version over the 2GB version, but it's just for your reference).

+1

7850 is a peach of a card and a decent price. Clock that 6600 CPU to get the most from the 7850.

 

[Marine-RX179]

For single player games I would think a overclocked Q6600 would do "ok" on most part without bottlenecking the 7850 too much, but in Starcraft 2 and mmos, my old Q6600 overclocked to 3.6GHz bottleneck even my 5850 quite heavily. Core2 and Phenom II simply don't cut it for delivering good frame rate in mmos.

Best bet is go for a 7850 for now and try in out on the games you play...and then you should aim for saving up toward upgrading to a i5.

 

[dave_beast]

Best bet is go for a 7850 for now and try in out on the games you play...and then you should aim for saving up toward upgrading to a i5.

+1, heck, even an i3 Ivy would give more umph than the Q6600.