Gtx Titan Core 2 Quad Q6600

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apower101

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Hi would this work? I already have all the parts. The q6600 and the ram/mobo, is from a previous build. WOuld it work?
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
8 gb DDR2 ram @ 1066 mhz
Motherboard; Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L
Nvidia Geforce GTX Titan
800 watt psuWhat would BF3 be like?
 
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That cpu will bottleneck the titan. It would function fine though...

You would be better off spending less on the GPU and upgrading the other components (cpu/mobo/ram). I think you would be disappointed with the performance you would be getting for how much money you would spend on that titan.

For the price of a titan you could build an entire pc...if you have everything else for a system, and all you need is a cpu, ram and mobo and gpu, you could do a lot with a thousand dollars.

If I were you I would get a decent i5 (~$200), and decent mobo(~$200), 8 GB Ram (~$60-70), that would leave you with over $400 for a gpu...gtx 770. That would be a far better setup.
 
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It would just be gimping your GPU horribly.

I had a Q6600 up until December of 2012. I went from 8800gts --> gtx 260 ---> gtx 570. The jump from 260 to 570 gave me 0 fps boost because I was bottle necked by the CPU. I then overclocked from 2.4 to 3.6 and got a huge jump in fps. I decided to upgrade to ivy bridge and now my computer screams.

Please don't buy a titan and slap it onto a core 2 quad system. Huge waste of money.
 
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I already have all the parts. I will soon be building a Haswell i7 system around it, as it was in my brothers system while I was working on a project. How can I decrease the bottleneck in the meantime?
 
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Why not just sell that old system for $300~ and then build a whole new system rather than getting a $1000 graphics card and putting it in an old system?

$1300 or so could build a decent gaming machine. The GTX 770 is only around $400. Why not save $600 and get that plus sell the old system and use the remaining $900 to build the rest of your new PC?

A Core 2 Quad Q6600 will bottleneck a GTX 580 and the GTX Titan is way faster than a GTX 580. Not sure what the FPS difference would be but either way you would be spending your money better if you did it the way I suggested.

 
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Not much you could do to decrease the bottleneck. If you are planning on building a new system I would just wait until then. But if you are dead set on getting a gpu right now and are willing to live with the bottleneck, then I dont know if there is anything I could say to dissuade you :)
 
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first of it will be a HUGE bottleneck but secondly i wouldn't be recommending a titan as a slightly overclocked GTX 780 outperforms it. and like most of the guy's said your better off with a new system insted of spending all on GPU.
 
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As stated, I already have the titan, and was using it in a bloomsfield system. I needed it for a project, before the 780 was out. I got it and am happy with it. But my brother needs his pc back, and I was wondering if this would work while I buy the rest of my system.
 
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how long are you intending to keep the current system? and are you gonna game heavily on it before a new system? you can OC it though the card will still not perform to its potential.
 
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Yes, it will work.
 
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A couple months, and yeah, I'll try BF3
 
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You can run the GTX Titan on your system without complications. Let us know how it does with that CPU. My guess is that you will get somewhere around 50 FPS in Battlefield 3 on Ultra settings. I'm including a link to an article about the MSI GX60 Laptop. The laptop has an amazing GPU but a CPU that is actually even slower than your Core 2 Quad Q6600.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gx60-gaming-laptop-radeon-hd-7970m,3478.html
 
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Yes, please let us know what kind of performance you see with the 6600. I would be very interested in that.
 
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I'll try, but I need to get it working first

 
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Following setup:
Core 2 Quad q6600 @ 3 ghz
4 gb ddr2 1066 ram
Ga-EP41-UD3L
GTX Titan

I get anywhere from 30/40 fps (never lower than 30. on 64 player maps with heavy explosions) to 114 on operation metro all at ultra. :)
 
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thasan1

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damn, if i get to upgrade my CPU il just add a C2Q and a GTX 690, and a new PSU and still play modern games at ultra wih decent FPS :D
 
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