Good graphics card for a Q6600 CPU at 2.4ghz?

[Shd0w2]

Something that won't bottleneck budget isn't really limited

[Ryan Leech]

GTX 760, but I would seriously overclock it to 3GHz if your motherboard supports it

[ZetZet]

 

GTX 760

 

hah

Something up to r7 250x from amd.

[Ryan Leech]

 

 

 

hah

Something up to r7 250x from amd.

 

Do you even have any experience with this CPU? Trust me, a GTX 760 will pair nicely with it

[ZetZet]

Do you even have any experience with this CPU? Trust me, a GTX 760 will pair nicely with it

I had an e8400 and it struggled to keep up with 7750. q6600 is soooooooooo old.

[WinNut]

GTX 580

[Ryan Leech]

I had an e8400 and it struggled to keep up with 7750. q6600 is soooooooooo old

I paired my E8500 with a GTX 770 for a little while and it performed admirably in every game aside from BF4 64 person. The Q6600 is a quad core so it will perform even better.

[ZetZet]

I paired my E8500 with a GTX 770 and it performed admirably in every game aside from BF4 64 person.

Like 30-50% below what it should be? It's just not worth it to pair 8 year old cpu with a mid-high end gpu.

[Faa]

Like 30-50% below what it should be? It's just not worth it to pair 8 year old cpu with a mid-high end gpu.

A proper overclocked Q9550 like 4.5GHz could nearly match a 2500k's stock performance

[A Bubble]

I agree with the 760, and overclocking to 3GHz would be nice

[Ryan Leech]

Like 30-50% below what it should be? It's just not worth it to pair 8 year old cpu with a mid-high end gpu.

 

A proper overclocked Q9550 like 4.5GHz could nearly match a 2500k's stock performance

The E8500 was nearly maxed out in most of the games I ran, and the 770 was maxed out at least 90% of the time. Like I said, BF4 MP was the only thing that it started to lag behind in and that's because the E8500 only has two cores. The frame rates were very stable.

[thewhitestig]

It really depends on what games you wanna play. A Q6600 will not bottleneck a 780 on Far Cry 2, but it will bottleneck even a GTX 650 on newer games like Watch Dogs or Assassin's Creed IV. 
 

 

Like 30-50% below what it should be? It's just not worth it to pair 8 year old cpu with a mid-high end gpu.

My Q8200 @2.80GHz is working at 95% on Watch Dogs while my 6870 is running at around 30-35% utilization. Here's a hard example of a bottleneck for all of you.

[qwertywarrior]

a Q6600 is great on optimized games like BF4  (Not watch dogs)

i would really recommend overclocking it

get with a 760 or amd 270

[qwertywarrior]

 

My Q8200 @2.80GHz is working at 95% on Watch Dogs while my 6870 is running at around 30-35% utilization. Here's a hard example of a bottleneck for all of you.

watch dogs is a horribly unoptimized pos

its always cpu bound

 

i guess a person with such a CPU will have watch out for certain games

[Ryan Leech]

It really depends on what games you wanna play. A Q6600 will not bottleneck a 780 on Far Cry 2, but it will bottleneck even a GTX 650 on newer games like Watch Dogs or Assassin's Creed IV. 

 

 

 

My Q8200 @2.80GHz is working at 95% on Watch Dogs while my 6870 is running at around 30-35% utilization. Here's a hard example of a bottleneck for all of you.

Crank the settings

[thewhitestig]

watch dogs is a horribly unoptimized pos

its always cpu bound

 

i guess a person with such a CPU will have watch out for certain games

No it's not. Watch Dogs is buggy and glitchy, but it's well coded and performs decently on mid range GPUs provided you have enough CPU horsepower. + It takes advantage of all cores.

But this bottleneck happens in every modern game. Assassin's Creed 4 (55%), Wolfenstein: The New Order (55%), Battlefield 3 (60%), Far Cry 3 (75%). The list goes on and on. But guess what? Older games are not troubled by the CPU. GPU utilization on Far Cry 2 and Crysis 1 is 98-100%. 

Anything below a Q9550 is just not capable of running new games smoothly enough. In other words anything below 4000 points on this list http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php Sorry to break it to you, but the Q8400 minimum requirements for Watch Dogs is complete bull. This game is absolutely raping my CPU. 

[hal9001]

GTX 750/650ti boost is your max before you would hit a bottleneck. Overclocking could alleviate some of that stress. By going Nvidia, you can use GPU accelerated physics with PHYSX, perfect for your weak CPU config.

[The_Strict_Nein]

I have a 760 with my Q6700 @ 3.2GHz and it's always around 90% utilisation.

Get a 760 if you can

[david cassar]

Best bet is that you get a cooler and overclock it to 3 ghz.

I wouldn't go higher than a 760/r9 270x. If I was you I would get a card with a good price/performance ratio like a gtx 750 ti or a r7 265.

 

No it's not. Watch Dogs is buggy and glitchy, but it's well coded and performs decently on mid range GPUs provided you have enough CPU horsepower. + It takes advantage of all cores.

But this bottleneck happens in every modern game. Assassin's Creed 4 (55%), Wolfenstein: The New Order (55%), Battlefield 3 (60%), Far Cry 3 (75%). The list goes on and on. But guess what? Older games are not troubled by the CPU. GPU utilization on Far Cry 2 and Crysis 1 is 98-100%. 

Anything below a Q9550 is just not capable of running new games smoothly enough. In other words anything below 4000 points on this list http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php Sorry to break it to you, but the Q8400 minimum requirements for Watch Dogs is complete bull. This game is absolutely raping my CPU. 

Overclocking helps. http://www.passmark.com/baselines/V8/display.php?id=24950945500

[Socratic]

It really depends on what games you wanna play. A Q6600 will not bottleneck a 780 on Far Cry 2, but it will bottleneck even a GTX 650 on newer games like Watch Dogs or Assassin's Creed IV. 

 

 

 

My Q8200 @2.80GHz is working at 95% on Watch Dogs while my 6870 is running at around 30-35% utilization. Here's a hard example of a bottleneck for all of you.

This. It's all game dependent. A hypothetical example would be a program that bottlenecks a 4770k while a GT 420 is at 30%. Kind of different vice versa, but same effect.

[Recon-UK]

Titan Z

[Sonefiler]

I would get an R7 260X and use Mantle where you can.