so tomorrow or by next thursday i can finally upgrade my video card so for the system in my sig which would be better out of these :- http://www.overclockers.coTuk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-160-EA&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1830 or this one :- http://www.overclockers.coTuk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-247-AS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1341 would a 560 bottleneck my cpu at 3.2ghz ? used to get 3.6 out of it but since i started using this p5kc mobo with ddr3 ram i cant get higher *remove T from url's
Since they’re both in your budget, get the 560... and in some situations your q6600 will be the limiting performance factor depending on res, game, settings, etc.
i play at 1680x1050 so if its a bit both ways i can accept it, none of the games out actually use the q6600 fully still some use all cores but never more than 50% i don't think i think im going to get the 560 there is a asus 560Ti TOP in my price range too that comes with bf3 and arkham city on a this week only offer so if its tomorrow i will get that one
The 460 is not a significant upgrade from the GTX 275. Only ~10% performance gain and DX11. Nothing short of a 560 Ti would be worthy for a GTX 275 successor. CPU usage in games not being 100%, does not mean you are not CPU bottle-necked, because most games don't use all 4 CPU cores. Windows might display a partial utilization of all cores, but it cannot load them any further. If the total CPU utilization of the game is 25% or 50% then it uses all of the CPU it can use. But generally your CPU at 3.2 GHz is "not bad"
ah i understand thank you. defo the 560Ti it is, will report in this thread my performance now i just cant wait feel like Christmas is coming early he he
I got a 560Ti about a month ago and it is absolutely spectacular. It runs metro 2033 on high, tesselation and physx on smoothly. Keep in mind metro is incredibly terribly optimized and still looks like sex. I run BF3 on high 1920x1080 with zero issues. Honestly my core 2 quad @ 3.2GHz is the bottleneck on my system when playing multiplayer BF3. It runs at 100% on all cores while my GPU stays at around 60%.
Just make sure its a "Ti". You're links didn't work so I wasn't sure. A GTX 560 (non-Ti) is no faster clock for clock than a GTX 460 - just a little more power efficient.
your cpu will bottlkneck in some of the more heavy cpu intensive games (starcraft 2, Battlefield 3) etc... but you should still see a nice jump in performance....you just wont get to use the full potential of the card until you upgrade the rest of your system....and if your gonna buy a 560ti....you may as well just go on ebay an buy a used gtx 480 for like 220-250 and it will be a lot faster.
no thanks dont want a second hand card and certainly not off fleabay lol seriously though i dont care as long as i get 40fps in games lol and yes i am upgrading cpu and mobo in new year this is the first upgrade of NEW hardware in 3 years dont be such a buzz killington @jeffredo you didnt read whole post did ya because if you did you would know to remove the T from each link lol and yes its a Ti
560ti and overclock the hell out of it, some are coming pre-oc'd from vendors running at 950mhz on the core, they're on par with 570's lol. Wait can you even run it with that psu? you'll need atleast 36 amps on 12v?
well my 275 needed more power than a 560 does and this antec psu did a good job, infact i have the asus gtx560ti direct CU II running now and its fine lol played bf3 singleplayer for a while and got 98-99% usage 100% of the time although at stock voltage i did notice some artifacting in heaven benchmark so upped volts to 1000mv and its does 900 core 1800 shader no probs and after 5 runs temp was 73c @ 50% fan so got lots more to go
