Rx 6600

confusedwelsh · July 12, 2023

Hi guys

my friend has a old dell t3500 with a gtx 970 and I want to give him a rx6600 I don’t need any more and was wondering if the gpu would work with that system

filpo · July 12, 2023

3 minutes ago, confusedwelsh said:

Hi guys

my friend has a old dell t3500 with a gtx 970 and I want to give him a rx6600 I don’t need any more and was wondering if the gpu would work with that system

Ye it would work but it might be bottlenecked a bit by the Xeon cpu

RONOTHAN## · July 12, 2023

Yes but actually no. The RX 6600 doesn't have legacy BIOS support, and the T3500 doesn't have UEFI support. You should be able to get the system into Windows with it assuming the board supports headless operation, but getting into the BIOS or anything before the desktop loads isn't going to work. Besides, X58 boards and CPUs are really slow at this point (especially at stock speeds since this was back when overclocking was useful and got you 50% more performance), a GTX 970 is realistically up there with the fastest cards I'd put in there.

confusedwelsh · July 12, 2023

8 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

Yes but actually no. The RX 6600 doesn't have legacy BIOS support, and the T3500 doesn't have UEFI support. You should be able to get the system into Windows with it assuming the board supports headless operation, but getting into the BIOS or anything before the desktop loads isn't going to work. Besides, X58 boards and CPUs are really slow at this point (especially at stock speeds since this was back when overclocking was useful and got you 50% more performance), a GTX 970 is realistically up there with the fastest cards I'd put in there.

I will take the 1070 out of my nas and give him that and sell the rx6600 then

Agall · July 12, 2023

16 minutes ago, filpo said:

Ye it would work but it might be bottlenecked a bit by the Xeon cpu

Understatement of the century, lol.

23 minutes ago, confusedwelsh said:

Hi guys

my friend has a old dell t3500 with a gtx 970 and I want to give him a rx6600 I don’t need any more and was wondering if the gpu would work with that system

If your friend actually games a lot, they should strongly consider a new platform, Intel 12th/13th or Ryzen 5000/7000 at a minimum. Prices on such are quite low, and an R5 5600 or i3 12100f platform can be had for sub $300 new. It'll probably be a bigger performance gain in gaming with a GTX 970 versus throwing an RX 6600 in an old workstation OEM system.