Should i upgrade my Q6600 for gaming purposes?

[vale1776]

Hello, I was wondering whether or not to bother upgrading my core 2 quad q6600 + foxconn blackops mobo to an i5 ivybridge and compatible mobo when they release. I'm looking to upgrade my graphics card, whatever happens, to either a radeon hd 7950 or a kepler card when they are released and I'm basically wondering if the Q6600 can handle the load.

many thanks for your time

 

[seumas_beathan]

If you have the money then yh sure go for it but if not then it really doesnt matter, the q6600 is a very good cpu that will still work fine with games

 

[jaguarskx]

The problem you will run into is your motherboard will likely only have a PCI-e 1.0/1.1 slot. Those video card you mentioned are PCI-e 3.0 cards. There may or may not be potential compatibility issues. For example, some old motherboards with PCI-e 1.0/1.1 slots have issues with PCI-e 2.1 cards. It's rare, but it has been reported.

So far there hasn't been any reported incompatibilities with PCI-e 3.0 cards, but they have only been recently released and I am assuming most people who have upgraded has a motherboard with a PCI-e 2.0 slot.

What you can do is buy the card 1st, then if you run into issues upgrade to Ivy Bridge.

 

[vale1776]

thank you for the reply's. My motherboard is pcie 2.0 compatible so i will take your advice and get the card before the cpu + mobo upgrade

 

[loneninja]

Is your Q6600 overclocked? At stock speeds it'll for sure be a bottleneck on these new cards, I'd personally upgrade to Ivy at this point if going high end on the GPU.