You test the gpu in your computer to make sure it works?

i have q6600 2.4ghz and 550 ti.

i have q6600 2.4ghz and 550 ti.

Same thing, please give me the link of 3dmark11 score.

You test the gpu in your computer to make sure it works?

I did, no problems at all.He can't even run 3dmark11 without booting his computer.

Not sure what's this topis is about, but my experience with Q66 is kinda interesting... I had HD7850 and felt like my CPU(same freq as now - 3.3Ghz) was bottlenecking it really bad as I couldn't find any other reasonable explanation for the the benchmark results which were totally off: http://i45.tinypic.com/2afkgly.png Now recently I got an GTX560, and now the results are as follows (taken with stock gpu clocks): http://i.imgur.com/IiTisdT.png To this day I don't know what had caused HD7850 to underperform so badly (not drivers, not CPU, not PSU, not software... Plus judging from the monitoring data it didn't look faulty. The only games it worked OK with were BF3 and COD), but bottom line is that Q6600 with a overclock to at least 3Ghz should handle a decent GPU with no major problems. And if for some reason you just can not overclock Q6600 (doing it for no real reason is just plain stupid with this CPU), then at 2.4Ghz the GTX460 would be a pretty much the most powerful gpu it can go with without having a constant bottleneck.

A q6600 @3ghz bottlenecks even a hd 6870 pretty bad. From my personal experience. In some games I gained 20fps + when I upgraded to 2500k.

A q6600 @3ghz bottlenecks even a hd 6870 pretty bad. From my personal experience. In some games I gained 20fps + when I upgraded to 2500k.

It depends on the game, but the majority of them with overclock above 3Ghz should do well, while some will load it only to some 40-60% with GTX560 being at 100% . Don't forget that your upgrade wasn't just simply CPU, it was MB and most probably DDR2--->DDR3 RAM as well. Even a new HDD could give a couple of FPS in certain games.

A q6600 @3ghz bottlenecks even a hd 6870 pretty bad. From my personal experience. In some games I gained 20fps + when I upgraded to 2500k.

Well back in the day i was using Q6600 3.2Ghz +GTX460 stock, didn't notice any bottleneck at all.

Well back in the day i was using Q6600 3.2Ghz +GTX460 stock, didn't notice any bottleneck at all.

You are right, but you don't prove him wrong as GTX460

I have a q6600 at stock and 2 gtx460's in sli. I often wonder if it is bottlenecking my cards. I'm not really confidant in overclocking the cpu, if some one could give me a blow by blow description of how to achieve a bit more out of it I would be most grateful.

Hm that's interesting... Take some in-game benchmark with sli on and sli off and give us the results. As for the tutorials, just google it, there are plenty of them..

So, it appears that my friend did another mistake, kinda.He bought an used i5 750 bundle thinking that his old system/cpu had some sort of problem.Guess what, the system that he bought is having the same issue with the 560ti and giving him bad performance on 3DMARK11. He finally listened me and ordered a brand new XFX 550W Core Edition.His old PSU(Bequiet 600(?) with 5 yrs of usage more or less) seems to be in it's final days. Another friend of mine bought a msi 7850 2GB, he said that the graphics card was having that well known issue, the coil whine.Then he bought a 7770 and bam, coil whine again...Another one that will buy a XFX 650W and return the 7770.His PSU is the Corsair CX500M. In resume, if you care for you system watch out for the PSU.

Well, coil whine yes, but it would be unusual for PSU to cause performance issues, normally the system would be simply unstable.

->big ROBOT bill U must OC CPU! those scores are realy low with that cpu... check my thread with e8200 and i get about p5k in demo 3dmark11. u should hit 1 k more with simple fsb adjustment. that dosnt even requires any skills in oc. hit 3.4Ghz and won't even notice temp increase. p.s i would chop my arm off if i could get hands on that baby

Sad to report that after getting that overclock neither BF3 nor Metro LL run with proper colours, they seem ultra bright and colourful like all the subtle mid tones are missing. 3d mark and normal apps run ok but not the games. I've done a re install of drivers but nothing has worked. I undid the overclock and still the colours are screwed. Any suggestions team?

Hi, if you want to compare your performance with my single 460 1GB+i5 2400 3.2 here it is. driver: 314.22 stock 700mhz http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/6978191 P3573 800mhz OCed stock voltage 0,987v http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/6978245 850mhz 1.087v http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/6978266 880mhz 1.100v http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/6980886 P4345 And i flashed the bios to unlock the minimum fan to 20% because 40% on idle is too much noise.I unlocked the voltage to the max which is 1.21v just for the sake of hacking it (lol) because on that point you will need WC or a good AC cooler.Well, i have the MK-13 standing somewhere...:) http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/8565/faoj.jpg My ex. 6870 on this system stock 900mhz would give me 4400P, 4700P on 1000mhz, so with 880 on this 460 it's really good. I didn't Oced the memory, yet. 🙂