Just a gfx card needed?

GinG

GinG

GinG

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Morning All,

Currently running a Q6600 (not overclocked due to cooling issues). I can refit my watercooling loop and get to 3.2 - 3.4ghz.

Wanting to play some of the latest releases but my aging 4850 does struggle and was wondering if I was to have a budget of say £200 - £250 on a new card would the Q6600 be a bottleneck?

Or am I better off just paying out £1k - £1.5k for a total new system?

Please bear in mind I have some components from when the first 6300 came out and have just upgraded along the 775 chip.

Cheers!
 
With your system I would personally grab an HD7850, an SSD if you don't already have one and overclock the CPU with the loop hooked up. the Q6600 shouldnt bottleneck the 7850 if you overclock, and may not bottleneck too badly at stock clocks either, the SSD would just make your system feel a lot fresher and more responsive for a relatively low payout.

What are the rest of your specs?
 
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Depends on what are the main type of games you play.

But between the overclocked Q6600 and the 4850, the 4850 would be the weaker link...so I'd say upgrading graphic card first.

The 7850 is a good choice to balance with an overclock Q6600 so long as you are not playing CPU intensive games like mmos (which the Q6600 would become a huge bottleneck on the 7850 - my old Q6600 at 3.6GHz was bottlenecking even my 5850 hugely in lots of mmos).

If you play just mainly single players games or FPS, getting a 7950 with a overclocked Q6600 shouldn't be too bad, but yes bottleneck would still occur in occasion scenes/battles.

But if you got money to spare, for the ideal gaming experience you would best to grab a 7950 along with a IvyBridge i5 upgrade (but the CPU+board+memory would cost around £300).
 
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