No performance increament

what was your old card? resolution?

1680x1050 old wan was gt9600

there should be a massive performance increase, on toms hierarchy chart those 2 cards are 9 tiers apart: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-car...

9600gt would be between gt440 and gt640 in this graph, around 22% I'd guess, 660ti is rated at 103%, so like 5 times faster...

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Club_3D/HD_7870_joke...

so I think you should get a nice aftermarket cooler and oc your cpu, or set every eyecandy option to the max on games to make it at least look pretty  

edit added a source link for the graph

lol now my prototype 2 is running around 20~30 fps on fraps with low aa and max settings i dunno wats wrong wit it

which is the same fps i was on gt9600

what kind of temps are you getting on it? use GPU-Z, sensors tab
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

I'm not familiar wiht that game...

45c idle and 50c when playing the game it drops to about 18fps when it gets intense on my 660ti

I'd guess the load% is quite low as well, right?

what about the cpu? hows the temps under load? (real temp http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/ )

Your CPU is even worse than most decent laptop CPUs from Intel right now, you need to upgrade your CPU. Since your CPU and MOBO is so old, you also might need to upgrade your RAM.

He doesn't need to upgrade his CPU... Just get an aftermarket heatsink and OC the CPU.

@OP: Prototype 2 is a very bad example of a game: it's a really bad console port and people with even the best hardware are having performance issues. You shouldn't judge performance increase based on that single game.

trying skyrim now  

so no cards can actually get good performance on prototype 2?

It's more of being lucky thing. I know when it it came out, there were many posts that complained about bad performance of Prototype 2, even though they had rigs with i5 @ 4.5 GHz and GTX 680s.

Better selling the CPU and get a decent CPU which will be on level with the GTX 660 ti. I know it will require a new MOBO aswell, but then he shouldn't have bought such a powerful GPU when he has such low-end components.

Why not? He will get insane boost in performance, and if he didn't have money to upgrade everything, buying GPU was the best option. Furthermore, Core2Quad isn't weak at all if you overclock it. When overclocked, it will most definitely not bottleneck that card.

woah dont want 2 start a flamewar here but yes Sunius im on a budget tats y i decided 2 upgrade my gpu and psu rahter than d whole system bcz if i do it the other way around say upgrading cpu and mobo and use my gt9600 my games wont get boosted as much

tried skyrim and its at 28~35 fps is it low?

I get about 80 fps on ultra settings with hd textures and 12 graphic enhancements on 1080p with GTX 660. So I consider it low.

Increase settings. The performance won't go down. Point is, Skyrim is extremely CPU intensive game, so overclocking would most definitely help. It's kind of ironic that you chose two bad examples of improvements  . Though, make sure that you aren't running anything in background so the game has as much CPU time available. Also, getting an aftermarket heatsink for ~$30 would also increase performance in CPU bound games due to overclocking.

i dun even think my mobo allows oc its around 65c on normal web browsing ==

btw any gpu intensive games 2 reccomend?

wayyy overkill man anyway nice card

If you have 65C web surfing you need new thermal paste at a minimum... $35 gets you a Evo with new paste and some OC headroom.

Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings
Crysis 2
Max Payne 3
Need for Speed: The Run
Battlefield 3 (singleplayer only, multiplayer is CPU intensive).
Far Cry 3

65c idle is way too much, theres something wrong with the cooler, either it's full of dust or it has come loose somehow or the fan isn't running. that also means that when there is any sort of load on the cpu it'll heat up so badly it will probably throttle down the clockspeed to prevent it from overheating and killing itself. And the performance will suffer alot... You need to fix that asap!

yours is faster. gtx660ti vs gtx660...
or should be anyways  

I think your reply was to me, and yes his GPU surpasses mine.

Still I got i5-3570 which is why my fps is so much higher.

well to both of you  
and if the op is throttling down his will get a lot better than currently when it gets fixed.

might want to change a new mobo and proc any suggestion?
in me country my budget is around $350

im using a elite 331 case so i dun think an evo will fit in

Which country are you from? If you're from US, i5-3570k + Asrock Z77 Extreme4/Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H would be your best bet.

Malaysia

Not really sure how prices are there. Could you check out the prices of those two parts I recommended? Based on their price I could recommend something suitable for you budget.

lol if you wanna throw money at a dusty heatsink, be my guest lol

wow tom's hierarchy chart is really flawed and outdated. does he plan on updating it?

how so? oh tell us youngster, enlighten us!

pre catalyst update, has the 660ti above a 7950, and 680 above a 7970. Also has a 7850 above a 6950, that just doesnt seem right either. r u mad?

OP: if ur core2*quad is around 65 c on web browsing you might be looking at a dying processor. Symptoms are of a bottleneck, the cpu you have is supposed to be right around a decent amd phenom, so it shouldnt bottleneck, but your temps are a bit odd, it might be expiring, dust may be built up around your heatsink, anything really.

are you looking at an old chart? the one i linked has 680 and 7970 at the same tier and 7970ghz above them... also 7950 is above 660ti.. so not sure what you're on about.. r u blind? lol
edit dated november 2012..

edit2 and dying cpus dont just overheat like that over time, they become unstable and crash alot and might need voltage bumps to keep em stable. dust build up on the heatsink on the other hand is easily cleaned...

kari let me tell you a little story. THere was a young child named timothy. He was a sweet young man. He loved his mommy and daddy very muched. He was always a sweet boy. THen on one night, Christmas eve, 1947, right after his dad got home from the war in Vietnam. Little timmy looked out his window and asked Santa for a gtx 680. His father, overhearing timothy, became infuriated, he just fought for his country and could not afford a 680 for little spoiled timothy. He took his leather belt and beat little timothy something fierce, right across his bottom. Then mommy came in and she smacked him across his wrists with a yardstick. The yardstick broke. Timmothy was crying. Then Jesus, being naked and masculine, sweating his holy beads down his glistening chest, came down the chimney, and presented timothy and his parents a gift. It was a 7950, and little timothy and his parents loved that 7950 so much! Here is little timothy now, 65 years later, and he still has it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcKWzVkgspc&list=UU_SN80...

loll you are high on something aren't ya?

edit looks like the message i was replying to has been removed.

okay now 2 solve my probi hav to do which one?
1. clean my hsf
2. buy a new hsf
3. apply new thermal paste
4. somehow oc it using tis lousy mobo (increase voltage or sumthin)
5. upgrade 2 a better mobo and proc (LAST RESORT)

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