Will a GTX 750 Ti bottleneck my Core 2 Quad Q6600?

[PennylessGaming237]

I am planning to buy a GTX 750 Ti and wondering if it will bottleneck my Core 2 Quad Q6600.

 

Will it work without overclocking? (2.4ghz)

I never overclocked any of my previous computers so I have no knowledge wether I should or shouldn't.

 

My motherboard is an Asrock G41M-VS3, I don't know how to use the bios settings so if anyone knows how to please tell me and thank you.

[8tg]

This is an ancient combo, in many cases the Q6600 will be the bottleneck with the 750ti.

 

Im surprised there are still people doing that combo, it usually shifts with generations, you should be looking at used haswell i5’s + a 1650 or something. The Q6600 + 750ti was relevant in 2014/2015 as a super budget option.

[SimplyChunk]

Here's a look aat the Core2Quad from last year.  I guess if you're not playing the latest and greatest it'd be ok.  But it would still hold back even a 750Ti in this day and age

[da na]

Does your board support the Q9550? I'd buy it if I were you. Usually can be found under $20 and are a good deal faster

[191x7]

Running a Q6600 below 3GHz should be a crime.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Board is garbage and 1156 literally costs the same (x3430), a crapton faster, oc is not ram limited as the lowest ram multis will let you run 1200 ddr3 even at 200 bclk

 

With such old platforms overclocking is a must, if you are retarded enough to somehow kill your hardware (usually by shoving 2.1v+ into the cpu) then replacements are a few $, and these old platforms are pretty bulletproof so youll have a hard time even getting the voltage needed to kill anything

 

But really unless you are on an extreme budget just look for 2nd gen - 4th gen stuff, currently testing flashing z bioses on non z boards to see if i can cpu oc on non z boards

[8tg]

33 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Board is garbage and 1156 literally costs the same (x3430), a crapton faster, oc is not ram limited as the lowest ram multis will let you run 1200 ddr3 even at 200 bclk

 

With such old platforms overclocking is a must, if you are retarded enough to somehow kill your hardware (usually by shoving 2.1v+ into the cpu) then replacements are a few $, and these old platforms are pretty bulletproof so youll have a hard time even getting the voltage needed to kill anything

 

But really unless you are on an extreme budget just look for 2nd gen - 4th gen stuff, currently testing flashing z bioses on non z boards to see if i can cpu oc on non z boards

"my Core 2 Quad Q6600."

 

They already have a Q6600, theres no point in a CPU recommendation.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

4 hours ago, 8tg said:

"my Core 2 Quad Q6600."

 

They already have a Q6600, theres no point in a CPU recommendation.

Q6600 is just so old that its not worth it, lga 1156 literally costs the same and an x3430 at even a meager 3.8ghz on crappier boards that can only do 200bclk is still going to annihilate that sad q6600 even at 3.2ghz

 

775 is more or less just for oc experiments nowadays, 65nm is useless junk that tops out at 3.6ghz if you wanna run it semi efficiently (there is cedar mill with the 5g+ shenanigans but netburst is garbage), 45nm tops out around 4.3ghz (atleast for wolfdale 6m), more freq would just mean cramming more volt than neccesary