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Q6600/GTX580 Bottleneck

JTrickle said:
Because I missed it when I tried to navigate their site. You were right.

A 69% figure (after extrapolation) of a 3.6ghz vs a stock I7 is quite worrying for q6600 fans.
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It is. I know it's only one game but if other games follow suit needing quad cores with lots of L3 cache, then q6600 and even q9xxx owners are going to feel a bit miffed at the framerates they are getting with their £400 GTX580.

I'm kinda glad I upgraded to i7 when I did a couple of months ago. It didn't actually cost too much as I sold my q9650, mobo and ram for £310 and bought the I7 950 + mobo + ram for £415 so £115 to swap.
 
tom91x91 said:
lol a q6600 will be fine, cpu bottlenecking is a myth, im only got a 3ghz dual core with my gtx 460 and i notice no bottlenecking at all, runs everything maxed and smoothly.
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Because you know no better go compare you're actually frame rates of games with somelike like a core i5 760 @ 3.6 - 4Ghz and it becomes very real not to mension 460GTX is main steam 580GTX needs CPU power to get the most from it.
 
jorzeh said:
Because you know no better go compare you're actually frame rates of games with somelike like a core i5 760 @ 3.6 - 4Ghz and it becomes very real not to mension 460GTX is main steam 580GTX needs CPU power to get the most from it.
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Time will tell:)

Tbh, for gaming alone, in the majority of games, a new GPU will give you a greater fps improvement than upgrading your whole system.

The question is, do you go for an "extreme" GPU such as the 580 or take a more balanced approach and go for a new I5/I7 setup with a mid-range GPU.

With the latter option potentially costing more:)
 
I'm starting to think that maybe a new mobo and cpu, and then see how the gpu fares that I've currently got. I find it very good just not so when AA is applied in some games. Maybe if I had a cpu clock of 3.6 then it would be fine, 3.2 is perhaps a bit borderline.
 
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nice link there for cpu comparisons in blackops. quads dominating :P

I think the Q6600 overclocked will be fine for a while. could wait a little while at least to see whats around the corner.
 
Is it me, or is COD: BO single-handedly making people (even people with Quad) going "OMG! My CPU is too slow...I need to upgrade my platform!"? :p

Wonder if the game developer got some sort of back-door deals with Intel and AMD to make their game become a CPU hog, with the huge extra processing power being used that don't seem to make the game run any better than than Modern Warfare :D
 
As much as it is a cpu hog I was surprised to find that with my i7 at 4.4Ghz and my two overclocked gtx470's it runs at a faster framerate than Medal of Honour.
 
Greebo said:
As much as it is a cpu hog I was surprised to find that with my i7 at 4.4Ghz and my two overclocked gtx470's it runs at a faster framerate than Medal of Honour.
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Probably your i7 at 4.4GHz has passed the CPU bottleneck point for your cards in COD:BO, and then from that point on is just graphic power, which I would assume it is normal for you to get higher frame rate in COD:BO than MOH, if the COD:BO graphic engine is not as detailed/demanding as the MOH graphic engine :p
 
Just got 580 installed.
So far very impressed.

Suspect Q6600 is bottlenecking somewhat but not massively.
Quickly ran Vantage at 3.2GHz on stock 580.

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If I increase CPU to 3.6GHZ, it adds approx 1000 points to all scores.

GPU usage is mostly 90+ and CPU is never maxing out but I need to run some more benchies.

On the face of it, a not very good Vantage score but gaming is much improved.
"Say goodbye to pop up city":)
 
vorticalspace said:
Just got 580 installed.
So far very impressed.

Suspect Q6600 is bottlenecking somewhat but not massively.
Quickly ran Vantage at 3.2GHz on stock 580.

vantage32ghzstock.jpg


If I increase CPU to 3.6GHZ, it adds approx 1000 points to all scores.

GPU usage is mostly 90+ and CPU is never maxing out but I need to run some more benchies.

On the face of it, a not very good Vantage score but gaming is much improved.
"Say goodbye to pop up city":)
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I'm not sure that's a good score for a 580?

I've just run Vantage with a 5870 stock on a Q6600 @3.3 and got

P14429 3DMarks

3DMark Score14429.41 3DMarks
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Graphics Score15759.05
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CPU Score11514.78

http://3dmark.com/3dmv/2906746

I was considering just upgrading my GPU to 580 but now thinking otherwise!
 
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