gtx 1060 on core 2 quad :)

[Omda Basha]

I have a pretty old PC and am upgrading it. I will be buying a GTX 1050 ti or 1060. will i face a bottle neck with my CPU  Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz Quad-Core?

[iRileyx]

Definitely with the 1060, maybe even with the 1050ti to be honest.

[AdamBGames]

2 minutes ago, Omda Basha said:

I have a pretty old PC and am upgrading it. I will be buying a GTX 1050 ti or 1060. will i face a bottle neck with my CPU  Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz Quad-Core?

You will have a significant bottleneck in high end games, and even some low end ones. but if all you play are games like tetris then this will be fine and tbh it might be worth moving to something like an i3 haswell chip or even a decent AMD FX chip before getting something like a 1050 or 1060. save the money and upgrade the cpu first

[TheRandomness]

5 minutes ago, RKRiley said:

Definitely with the 1060, maybe even with the 1050ti to be honest.

Everything past the 750Ti will bottleneck :c 

[bigneo]

1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

Everything past the 750Ti will bottleneck :c 

How does one tell?

[SCHISCHKA]

you will not be able to play modern games with a core2. a 1050 will be your upper limit

[samcool55]

If you can't afford an upgrade now i would slap a good cpu cooler on it and oc the cr*p out if it

 

Every extra Mhz you can squeeze out of it will be used by the gpu.

[SCHISCHKA]

1 minute ago, bigneo said:

How does one tell?

look at the min and recommended system requirements for the particular game that you wish to play

[Omda Basha]

oh no  .. ok so how does look like? i mean is it just a drop in frame rate of game but it will still be workable or is it a complete freeze?

 

[TheRandomness]

Just now, Omda Basha said:

oh no  .. ok so how does look like? i mean is it just a drop in frame rate of game but it will still be workable or is it a complete freeze?

 

Lower FPS, sometimes quite a lot but others, not so much. 

3 minutes ago, bigneo said:

How does one tell?

I have an X5450 in my brother's rig and the 750Ti comes quite close to 100% compared to the CPU. 

[Omda Basha]

i can't upgrade the cpu now,. ... i will have to upgrade the MB as well then then cooling and also the RAM .. that's not an upgrade any more 

[Omda Basha]

i got evo 850 and another 4 GB of RAM and thought that would help

[bigneo]

3 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

look at the min and recommended system requirements for the particular game that you wish to play

lel

1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

I have an X5450 in my brother's rig and the 750Ti comes quite close to 100% compared to the CPU. 

 

Ahh Okay, I thought you had some funky method or website there to check. So you are just going by the example you ran into yourself.

[GerminatorX135]

If you want a real answer, better learn it from someone who did it before.

This guy puts a GTX950 into a Core 2 Quad PC.

 

Most of the current games should run fine with a mix of medium to high settings. Some may start to bottleneck to to it's age. But it depends on which game you want to play. In my oppinion, something like a 1050 is more than enough.

 

I'm planning to do a Core 2 Quad with GTX1050 build by the end of this year.

[Aereldor]

10 minutes ago, Omda Basha said:

i can't upgrade the cpu now,. ... i will have to upgrade the MB as well then then cooling and also the RAM .. that's not an upgrade any more 

You might get better overall performance if you invest in a Core i3 6100 bundle and a 1050 ti rather than just a 1060.

 

It is an upgrade- just a big one. How much can you afford to spend on the upgrade overall? I can draw up a parts list for you. Also, do you live in the US? Micro Center has $30 off on CPUs with a purchase of a compatible motherboard.

[Aereldor]

If you do live in the US, here's a parts list. Note that this exact motherboard for this exact price may not be available at Micro Center, but it's a placeholder part for similar motherboards that will definitely be available at Micro Center for a similar price. You might be able to save on RAM there too.

 

This is all just $27 more than the cost of a new 6GB 1060.
 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Motherboard: Asus H110M-E/M.2 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($36.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($39.99 @ Newegg) 
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Mini Video Card  ($129.99 @ Newegg) 
Other: Core i3 6100 (Micro Center - with motherboard bundle) ($70.00)
Total: $276.96
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-11-24 04:54 EST-0500

[Omda Basha]

thx man appreciate it, that was really helpful

[Aereldor]

43 minutes ago, Omda Basha said:

thx man appreciate it, that was really helpful

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