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ASUS P5K-E/wifi-ap latest GFX card upgrade limit?

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Hi Rolli59,

Cool, I have an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 and 8 gb of RAM. Does that help narrow it down? With the GFX card being a PCI Express x16. Even the CPU I would like to boost (preferably later), but without having to re-gut the whole mobo...if possible.

The current system (running on win7 64-bit) is going totally fine, but I've noticed its started to be somewhat dated for the updated software I'm using (Maya 2011 and Zbrush 4, but mainly trying to plan ahead somewhat for using Mari
http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/mari/system-requir...

So do you reckon any of these listed cards would work on my current system ok?

Thanks
Graphics card Master
Motherboard Master

Yes they should, there are better gforce out there now in the GTX5xx series. The only thing for your socket that is better than you currently have is Q9xxx series at higher speeds which you can simply get by overclocking your Q6600.
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