Intel Q6660 Bottleneck?

[DrunkPenguinz]

I'm wanting to buy a r9 270x, and I wanted to know if my cpu would make it bottleneck. It's an intel 2 duo quad core Q6660

[JeffreyEagan]

...Yes.

[Geekazoid]

Well that's the same CPU that I've got in my 7+ year old rig, so probably.

[david cassar]

At stock definitely. Once over clocked to 3.0 ghz+, probably not.

[EarthboundHero]

This is literally an 8 year old CPU. What do you think?

[david cassar]

This is literally an 8 year old CPU. What do you think?

Although old your kinda underestimating it. Once ocd it will match or even beat amds fm2+ athlons (760k etc) in most applications.

http://www.passmark.com/baselines/V8/display.php?id=35159341801

http://www.passmark.com/baselines/V8/display.php?id=34829032947

[zappian]

I saw a q6600 with a 570 running bf4 at 40 fps on youtube.

 

• Its not the worse thing ever.

[lx_srs]

I'm wanting to buy a r9 270x, and I wanted to know if my cpu would make it bottleneck. It's an intel 2 duo quad core Q6660

yes it will for sure.  HUGE BOTTLENECK.

[AvoK95]

I think a GTX750 non-ti would run fine (correct me if I'm wrong)

[zappian]

Op do yourserlf a favor and get the pentium g3258 + z97 mobo combo at microcenter.

 

http://www.microcenter.com/site/brands/G3258Bundle.aspx

[david cassar]

This vid shows a q6600 @3.6 GHz with a gtx 580 running bf3 64 player ultra. Its running pretty well. Also the 580 is similar in performance to the 270x. So i stand by what I said. Once over clocked to 3ghz or more you won't experience that much bottlenecking.

[harrynowl]

Single core performance is higher than AMD FX.

 

But you had better get that thing as close to 4GHz as you possibly can.

[hypnodog]

Single core performance is higher than AMD FX.

 

But you had better get that thing as close to 4GHz as you possibly can.

My FX 8120 has slightly higher single core performance than a Q6600. I do recommend overclocking it though.

[harrynowl]

My FX 8120 has slightly higher single core performance than a Q6600. I do recommend overclocking it though.

at what clock?

 

on both cpus

[hypnodog]

at what clock?

 

on both cpus

8120 clocked @ 3.1 GHz and the Q6600 clocked @ 2.4 GHz.

[Darel]

Op do yourserlf a favor and get the pentium g3258 + z97 mobo combo at microcenter.

 

http://www.microcenter.com/site/brands/G3258Bundle.aspx

lol.. I dont think that pentium is much better than q6600 , the old core 2 series are still in good shape compared to the new intels

[zappian]

lol.. I dont think that pentium is much better than q6600 , the old core 2 series are still in good shape compared to the new intels

 

Its much better at 4.5 ghz than the q6600.

 

Im sure more people would agree with me.

[david cassar]

Its much better at 4.5 ghz than the q6600.

Im sure more people would agree with me.

In single threaded ofc. But a core 2 quad with a good overclock is still very capable. Personally a core 2 quad has an advantage over the g3258 because it has 4 cores

[zappian]

In single threaded ofc. But a core 2 quad with a good overclock is still very capable. Personally a core 2 quad has an advantage over the g3258 because it has 4 cores

 

In most games it would perform much better IMO

 

Games are loosely threaded.

[D3MON]

http://www.techspot.com/review/458-battlefield-3-performance/page7.html
in multi threaded scenarios its still okay (once given a mild overclock), a newer cpu might give a couple of fps but of course that means buying new hardware.
in single threaded scenarios yeah it'll suck as bad as a 2.4gh core2 duo..
i sold a q6600 rig to a friend a year and half ago and hes happy with it.
got another q6600 and msi g41-p33 combo board sat around doing nothing at the moment
they're like a stock fx4100, not the most powerful things around but okay.
but for the price/7 years id say its a good value.

remember all those posts telling everyone to get an e8400 over a q6600 because all games were single threaded?

edit-
q6600@2.4
single-62(really?)
multi-231
source http://cbscores.com/

q6600@3ghz
multi-295
source http://hwbot.org/submission/2550071_tasospaok123_cinebench_r15_core_2_q6600_(2.4ghz)_295_cb/

pentium k-stock
multi-237

pentium-k@4.8
multi-343
source http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2014/06/24/intel-pentium-g3258-review/6

had q6600's at 3.6 heard people go upto 4ghz but wouldn't do it on 65nm myself.
friends running a q9550 (3.2ghz) with a gtx760 and no problems.

[david cassar]

In most games it would perform much better IMO.

In most games ofc. Since most games use only 2 cores. IMO the core 2 quads are pretty badass. They're like 8 years old but with a good overclock they can still kick ass haha

[harrynowl]

8120 clocked @ 3.1 GHz and the Q6600 clocked @ 2.4 GHz.

core clock too different to measure per core performance really

 

[zappian]

core clock too different to measure per core performance really

 

When are you gonna upgrade your cpu showdown harry? 

[harrynowl]

When are you gonna upgrade your cpu showdown harry? 

My cx600 died on me. So I have a replacement for that arriving monday.

 

been very busy with college etc too

[zappian]

My cx600 died on me. So I have a replacement for that arriving monday.

 

been very busy with college etc too

 

Same man , im studying for finals ATM.

 

I had a TX 650 a few years ago and it died , same thing happened to a friend of mine.

 

Corsair psus die very young.

 

Man makes me sad that tx 650 was a beast but died after two years.