- Nov 19, 2007
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I have a Q6600-based system overclocked to 3.6 GHz with a G92 8800 GTS GPU. I've been traveling for work the past few months and the rig has been in storage but I was running Diablo 3 maxed or close to it if I remember correctly.
Fast forward to now and I'm about to dust it off and get playing again, perhaps with some contemporary games (might give battlefield 4 a go). I'm wondering if the Q6600 will present a significant bottleneck? I do plan on replacing the the GPU with something a bit more current like a GTX 650 Ti or similar but I'd like to keep the mobo and CPU as long as possible before a full system upgrade, at least for another year or ideally longer. I'm running 1680x1050 res and will continue to do so most likely until upgrading the whole machine.
Although the GPU struggled right out of the box with titles like Crysis I never felt the system was CPU bound. Although clock for clock I'm sure newer processors will handily beat it I don't think at 3.6 GHz it's unusable or destined for the trash heap any time soon. What do you guys think?
Fast forward to now and I'm about to dust it off and get playing again, perhaps with some contemporary games (might give battlefield 4 a go). I'm wondering if the Q6600 will present a significant bottleneck? I do plan on replacing the the GPU with something a bit more current like a GTX 650 Ti or similar but I'd like to keep the mobo and CPU as long as possible before a full system upgrade, at least for another year or ideally longer. I'm running 1680x1050 res and will continue to do so most likely until upgrading the whole machine.
Although the GPU struggled right out of the box with titles like Crysis I never felt the system was CPU bound. Although clock for clock I'm sure newer processors will handily beat it I don't think at 3.6 GHz it's unusable or destined for the trash heap any time soon. What do you guys think?
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