[Solved] Q6700 Bottlenecking GTX 460?

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Is my CPU limiting my GPU in games?

Specs:
Core 2 Quad Q6700 2.66GHz
EVGA GTX 460 1GB Superclocked
Corsair 525W
4GB RAM
ASUS 27" (1920X1080)

Games:
Crysis
Borderlands
Starcraft 2
Fallout 3
And More...

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Reply to carfreak3504

carfreak3504 wrote :

Nah, they should work fine together, unless you have one of those lava breathing super OC cards, a but a stock or near stock 460GTX will be just fine.

Reply to vilenjan

Believe it or not, my q6600 was the bottle neck to my gtx 285 until around 3.1ghz.

I recommend overclocking that chip to an easy 3.0ghz or so if you can.

Reply to sportsfanboy

Its not a discovery that the c2Q might bottleneck the card, i have my c2Q oc at 3.6 ghz, along with a gtx 460, they do great-
I would recommend to Overclock you cpu-

Reply to 55Range

The Kentsfeild Core2Quads are very powerful, I have a Q6600 overclocked at 3.4ghz, it outperforms a stock i7 920 according to Sisoft. They are even 5% faster than AMDs Deneb Cores (Phenom II 940 - 970) Clock for clock.

Message edited by deadjon on 11-13-2010 at 04:55:32 PM

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carfreak3504 wrote :

at stock speed it's very possible for you cpu to limit your gpu.
a higher dual core is still a good gaming chip compared to a slower clocked quad core.

your system is still pretty solid, nice combo of Intel and nVidia.
what's your motherboard or if a prebuilt unit then by whom.?
i recommend a slight overclock of your cpu and you should be good to game.
nice resolution to game at and you should have no problems.

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Reply to malmental

If you dont want to dable in OCing the CPU, grab one fo the cheaper 768MB 460GTX, you can then for a terrific price, and they are a bit weaker than their 1gb cousins, so a perfect match

Reply to vilenjan

spend a few dollars on a higher clocked quad if you do not want to overclock..

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