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    E6600 at 3ghz enough for one of these?

    I'm a bit out of the loop with CPU's and such these days..

    Is my processor powerful enough for either a 4870 or gtx 260 or will there be a bottleneck?

    My PSU is okay as i checked up on that.


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    Re: E6600 at 3ghz enough for one of these?

    Yup should be fine. Very few apps can deal with 4 cores simultaneously, so most will, at best, use 2.

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    Re: E6600 at 3ghz enough for one of these?

    Quote Originally Posted by dave87 View Post
    Yup should be fine. Very few apps can deal with 4 cores simultaneously, so most will, at best, use 2.
    i think that's a dual core...

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    Re: E6600 at 3ghz enough for one of these?

    Sorry, my experience is based on a Q6600 @3.1ghz, and very few apps strain all of the cores. As such, I'd guess a Dual Core at roughly the same speed should be fine.

    Should have made it clearer

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    Re: E6600 at 3ghz enough for one of these?

    Thanks a lot..i thought it would be fine

    Now to choose which card to go for..might stick with Nvidia.

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    Re: E6600 at 3ghz enough for one of these?

    I run an o'clocked E6600 with a HD4870 & it flies
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    Re: E6600 at 3ghz enough for one of these?

    Overclocking to 3GHz is good, and thats where you see the big increase in performance.

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    Re: E6600 at 3ghz enough for one of these?

    You could get 3.5-3.6ghz at 1.36-1.37v quite easily on a E6600, temps are manageable too

    I've ran a E6300 @ 3.6ghz (1.37v) with a HD4870 and it's absolutely fine.

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    Re: E6600 at 3ghz enough for one of these?

    You should be fine with that combination!
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    Re: E6600 at 3ghz enough for one of these?

    I run my E8400 (2 cores) with a 4870, not seen anything it struggles with (max usage during encoding of course).

    A 6600 running at 3ghz will fly.
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    Re: E6600 at 3ghz enough for one of these?

    i've got my e6600 at 3.3ghz atm with a gtx260 and thats running along nicely. from what i've read 2.4ghz onwards is where you'll start seeing less and less benefits in games when upping the speed on the cpu.

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    Re: E6600 at 3ghz enough for one of these?

    Thanks everyone..most helpful of you all

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    Re: E6600 at 3ghz enough for one of these?

    I always wondered just how much difference the processor made to gaming setups, so I did some research and found AnandTech's new benchmarking website. As far as I can tell they've tried to unify the systems as much as possible, so for each benchmark you get a reasonable approximation of what difference the processor makes to the score. It's a fascinating tool - have a look and you might find some interesting results (like just how close the Athlon 1640-LE is to the dual core celeron, for instance )

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    Re: E6600 at 3ghz enough for one of these?

    I run an e6750 @ 3.2ghz with my GTX260, it's all good
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    Re: E6600 at 3ghz enough for one of these?

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    I always wondered just how much difference the processor made to gaming setups, so I did some research and found AnandTech's new benchmarking website. As far as I can tell they've tried to unify the systems as much as possible, so for each benchmark you get a reasonable approximation of what difference the processor makes to the score. It's a fascinating tool - have a look and you might find some interesting results (like just how close the Athlon 1640-LE is to the dual core celeron, for instance )
    Great comparison tool!! Thanks for telling us about it!!

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    Re: E6600 at 3ghz enough for one of these?

    Quote Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH View Post
    Great comparison tool!! Thanks for telling us about it!!
    You know so much about graphics cards and not this?

    Toms Hardware has one similiar for CPU, VGA, and Hard drives iirc. Not sure if they've been updated though.

    Easiest way is to do some overclocking yourself and do some benchmarks and note down the results

    I'm pretty sure when you get to 3GHz there is a massive boost (3DMark wise) and there onwards the boost isn't so big.

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