• Q6600 bottleneck 5870?
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Would a Q6600 @ 2.4ghz bottleneck a 5870 1gb gfx card while I would try to max out most games at 1680 x 1050? Also, what would be the best way to get at least 3.0ghz out of my 6600? I understand that these things are easy to OC, but I haven't done any research on the best way to cool it.
I'm sure you're fine, the Q6600 is a great CPU. If you want to overclock it, buy a new cooler, and just go ahead.
I've heard that if you're gonna OC a quad core, it's best to get water cooling. Is this true?
Unless you try to do some insane type of shit, a good aftermarket cooler should do the trick.
you can hit 2.7-2.8 on stock cooling if your motherboard doesn't suck.
[QUOTE=skynrdfan2;22627743]I've heard that if you're gonna OC a quad core, it's best to get water cooling. Is this true?[/QUOTE] Watercooling is pretty useless unless you are doing insane clocks or want to show off.
[QUOTE=taipan;22629625]Watercooling is pretty useless unless you are doing insane clocks or want to show off.[/QUOTE] Or want a dead silent PC
[QUOTE=NecroTitan;22630869]Or want a dead silent PC[/QUOTE] Watercooling still uses fans, most of the time. Besides you can just use quiet fans for air cooling.
[QUOTE=Collin665;22633757]Watercooling still uses fans, most of the time. Besides you can just use quiet fans for air cooling.[/QUOTE] 2 low rpm fans in a WC settup can cool a whole pc as well as 5+ High CFM fans. So its performance meets silence.
[QUOTE=NecroTitan;22633997]So its performance meets silence.[/QUOTE] who gang up and rape the living shit out of Price
[QUOTE=reapaninja;22634218]who gang up and rape the living shit out of Price[/QUOTE] I will agree with that. However it is worth it to me. I also happen to be able to afford it, which makes me a little biased.
Yes your Q6600 is bottlenecking your 5870. My Q9400 @ 4GHz bottlenecks my 4890 Crossfire setup and it's quite a large bottleneck at that. Get a Xigmatek S1283 or something and you're good.
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;22628836]you can hit 2.7-2.8 on stock cooling if your motherboard doesn't suck.[/QUOTE] This Running 2.8ghz w/stock cooling myself.
[QUOTE=Odellus;22637505]Yes your Q6600 is bottlenecking your 5870. My Q9400 @ 4GHz bottlenecks my 4890 Crossfire setup and it's quite a large bottleneck at that. Get a Xigmatek S1283 or something and you're good.[/QUOTE] No it wont. How do you even know it is bottlenecking? (save for gta)
[QUOTE=taipan;22640267]No it wont. How do you even know it is bottlenecking? (save for gta)[/QUOTE] Probably because my framerate is dropping to the high 40s and mid 50s in hordes in L4D and the fact that whenever a shitload of stuff is happening in BC2 it drops to the 30s.
sounds like bad scaling man
[QUOTE=OCELOT323;22645443]sounds like bad scaling man[/QUOTE] No because the rest of the time I'm getting 160-280 FPS when I normally got 80-130 with my GTX 260.
[QUOTE=skynrdfan2;22627743]I've heard that if you're gonna OC a quad core, it's best to get water cooling. Is this true?[/QUOTE] It's a good way of cooling but is very expensive and there are cheaper alternatives making water cooling unecessary for you. You'd only need watercooling if you're going to overclock it very much and even then it's not always needed.
[QUOTE=Odellus;22640922]Probably because my framerate is dropping to the high 40s and mid 50s in hordes in L4D and the fact that whenever a shitload of stuff is happening in BC2 it drops to the 30s.[/QUOTE] Open task manager. Play L4d. Check the graphs for spikes around 100%.
[QUOTE=Odellus;22637505]Yes your Q6600 is bottlenecking your 5870. My Q9400 @ 4GHz bottlenecks my 4890 Crossfire setup and it's quite a large bottleneck at that. Get a Xigmatek S1283 or something and you're good.[/QUOTE] these nvidia 400 and ati 5800 series cards are definitely bottlencked by these cpus, but they still preform nicely.. just not as good as it should. PCgaminghardware.de or something did a review of the 470 with a i7 860 @ 4Ghz, which blew other benchmarks out of the water that were using slower processors
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