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Yes there will be a problem, however it is not your PSU but it is your CPU.
Your Q6600 will bottleneck the GTX670 by quite a big proportion...I'm saying this with my own experience of my old Q6600 at 3.6GHz bottlenecking even my 5850...and the GTX670 is quite a lot faster than the 5850.
You will see overall better and consistent performance if you kept your existing 5870 and upgrading your CPU/platform to SandyBridge/Ivybridge i5 than to pair a GTX670 with your Q6600. Upgrading your graphic card while keeping your Q6600 won't stop the frame rate from dipping down to the 20~30fps range.
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Spluff, Hope this message finds you in time at least to consider my findings on the longevity of a Q6600 and a Gtx 670. I have found that at about at least 3.2Ghz a
Q6600 will allow the GPU to run 99% utilization in a profound number of Games. In fact many benchmarks of review sites are spot on with my findings benchmarking various games and bench apps. Heaven 3.0 runs identical to a modern rig. BF3 ultra sp 99% GPU utilization as a case in point. Same with Saints Row Third, Just Cause 2 and many others.
Please note I game in 1920x1200 and use an Xfi based card. I used an Essence STX for 6 months and after some time realized a Q6600 takes a hit on this card due to it processing sound in software. To keep the c2q fire going id steer clear of software based prossesing wherever possible. fine for new cpus. not really for keeping our cpus fueling the gtx 670
And lastly, i upgraded from a 5870 which i see you are using. I more than doubled my min framerate in Yanov Station in Stalker COP with a super boost running tesselation in dx 11. I started the game in DX10 mode for some reason that was better then dx11 for framerate. and finished on the Gtx 670 with AA and Tesselation that for me the 5870 struggled with. As with every one of my 5 video card upgrades in my 5 year old q6600 rig i absolutley loved the framerate jump.
For me im 100% Happy going [email protected] and A Gtx 670
Best of luck to you.
EDIT: the upgrade bug bit me. I am now I7-3770K and .see the gtx 670 running even up to 102 percent utilization in skyrim. I wanted to stretch the q6600 2 more years as it has been so good of a cpu. certainly many games aren't cpu bound. but for all it worth the ones that are actually do shine and i can confirm so many folks that see it also when one is cpu bottlenecked.
Now im 101 percent happy. 103-2 percent. the 2 percent is being sad to see the legend q6600 retired
Marine-Rx179: aggreed a q6600 bottlenecks a Gtx670 in some games by a considerable amount.
Crysis framerates jumped 2.5 times. Compared to the Q6600. Btw i was lucky enough to get my 3770k
stable at [email protected] volts.
Q6600 will allow the GPU to run 99% utilization in a profound number of Games. In fact many benchmarks of review sites are spot on with my findings benchmarking various games and bench apps. Heaven 3.0 runs identical to a modern rig. BF3 ultra sp 99% GPU utilization as a case in point. Same with Saints Row Third, Just Cause 2 and many others.
Please note I game in 1920x1200 and use an Xfi based card. I used an Essence STX for 6 months and after some time realized a Q6600 takes a hit on this card due to it processing sound in software. To keep the c2q fire going id steer clear of software based prossesing wherever possible. fine for new cpus. not really for keeping our cpus fueling the gtx 670
And lastly, i upgraded from a 5870 which i see you are using. I more than doubled my min framerate in Yanov Station in Stalker COP with a super boost running tesselation in dx 11. I started the game in DX10 mode for some reason that was better then dx11 for framerate. and finished on the Gtx 670 with AA and Tesselation that for me the 5870 struggled with. As with every one of my 5 video card upgrades in my 5 year old q6600 rig i absolutley loved the framerate jump.
For me im 100% Happy going [email protected] and A Gtx 670
Best of luck to you.
EDIT: the upgrade bug bit me. I am now I7-3770K and .see the gtx 670 running even up to 102 percent utilization in skyrim. I wanted to stretch the q6600 2 more years as it has been so good of a cpu. certainly many games aren't cpu bound. but for all it worth the ones that are actually do shine and i can confirm so many folks that see it also when one is cpu bottlenecked.
Now im 101 percent happy. 103-2 percent. the 2 percent is being sad to see the legend q6600 retired
Marine-Rx179: aggreed a q6600 bottlenecks a Gtx670 in some games by a considerable amount.
Crysis framerates jumped 2.5 times. Compared to the Q6600. Btw i was lucky enough to get my 3770k
stable at [email protected] volts.
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