Is the GTX 260 a good fit for my system?

[Guest]

I put together my system about two years ago... I want to replace my "ancient" 7950GTKO with a eVGA GTX 260 216 Superclocked (626Mhz)

Here's my system:

ASUS P5B LGA 775 Intel P965 Express
Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775
4GB (4 x 1GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)

Am I getting something way too far fetched or are my other components still decent for that set up?

 

[calam1ty]

Your cpu is a tad slow for the GTX 260 and you might experience a slight bottleneck (ie. your videocard isn't going to be pushed to it's full potential). If you don't mind overclocking your cpu to 3.0GHZ or greater, you'll significantly decrease the bottle neck. This of course is assuming you're using the computer with a 1680 x 1050 resolution or less monitor. If your resolution is larger, you won't experience the bottle neck as much as it's the gpu that becomes the bottleneck. Either way it really helps if you cpu is faster to take advantage of the rather powerful graphics card. If not you can go for a 9800 GTX or 4850 which is cheaper and won't be as badly bottlenecked.

 

[werxen]

Your cpu is a tad slow for the GTX 260 and you might experience a slight bottleneck (ie. your videocard isn't going to be pushed to it's full potential). If you don't mind overclocking your cpu to 3.0GHZ or greater, you'll significantly decrease the bottle neck. This of course is assuming you're using the computer with a 1680 x 1050 resolution or less monitor. If your resolution is larger, you won't experience the bottle neck as much as it's the gpu that becomes the bottleneck. Either way it really helps if you cpu is faster to take advantage of the rather powerful graphics card. If not you can go for a 9800 GTX or 4850 which is cheaper and won't be as badly bottlenecked.

you really think his cpu would be the bottleneck? i dont know bro, i think you would be fine with the current games out there right now. as far as my experience goes its always the GPU bottlenecking, rarely the cpu.

 

[jeffredo]

I have an EVGA GTX 260 "FTW" Edition (192 version clocked at 666 Mhz) with an Athlon X2 6400+ at the stock 3.2 Ghz. I also game at 1680x1050. Its absolutely fine. I'm sure it would be much faster with a high end Intel CPU, but its still quite a bit better than the 8800 GTX it replaced.

I'd say go for it. You'll probably upgrade (or OC) you CPU in time and will be that much happier with your card.

 

[mtyermom]

It will be fine in your system, even if it is slightly bottlenecked. You won't need to upgrade your video card for a while, it will last you through a CPU upgrade or you can put it in your next build.

 

[x_2fast4u_x]

The CPU you have is a the little engine that could in terms of OC'ing if you have adequate cooling i would suggest OCing to a rock solid 3ghz...if my Conroe 1.86ghz stock and OC to 3Ghz you should have no issues. DO NOT raise voltages...even if you think it is going good, voltage changes are better left to the big boys...with good paying jobs....and money to burn..literally BURN. At most look at the max voltages and apply those to the CPU...For mine it is 1.5v your should be the same. this should eliminate the bottleneck especially if you can get somewhere in the clock region of 3.2-3.5ghz.


Hope this helps.