GTX 770 with older motherboard and cpu

[flannegan]

I am currently using older hardware and would like to know if upgrading to a GTX 770 video card would give me much better gaming performance, or would my current hardware bottleneck me?

 

Computer Specs:

• ASUS P5B Motherboard (from 2007)
• Intel Core2Quad Q9550
• 6 Gigs DDR2 RAM
• EVGA 560ti Video Card

I'm not looking to upgrade my other computer components right now; just looking for some appreciable framerates and graphic quality @ 1080p resolution.

[SAV1OUR]

don't bother your system will bottleneck the 770 like hell

[Nacho588425]

You shouldnt do that, unless you are going to upgrade sometime soon.

[BiG StroOnZ]

Relative performance in games:

 

 

 

Phenom II X4 965 (3.4GHz) = 100%
FX 6300 (3.5GHz + turbo) = 102,2%
Q9550 (2.83GHz) = 88,9%
"Q9550" OC to 3.2GHz (QX9770) = 98,9%

 

Here's after overclocked to 4.0GHz:

 

 

Phenom II X4 965 at 4GHZ = 100%
FX 6300 at 4.7GHz = 108,1%
Q9550 at 4GHz = 101,9%

 

It has similar performance to an FX 6300 overall after a slight overclock.

 

So I would recommend getting a decent CPU cooler and overclocking it first (try to achieve at least a 3.7GHz overclock, if you can go higher that it would be much better). Then after that drop in a GPU like a 770 or 280x and you should be good to go.