GTX 660 on My computure

[Ahmed Abidi]

i want to buy an MSI GeForce GTX 660 N660-2GD5/OC I don't know whether my computer wil support it , it's a bt old :
intel core quad q8200
4 GB DDR3 Ram .
ASRock G41C-VS Motherboard with an PCI Express X16 slot
tell me whether it'll work or not .
if not give me another graphic card i can buy to have a better pc for gaming
Thanks

 

[ak47jar3d]

I would say it will work assuming you have a 450w psu, but I would expect some bottlenecking. I would recommend 650ti instead to avoid that problem.

 

[Linkdrive]

The GTX 660 will be a decent match. Depending on the games you play, there may or may not be a bottleneck, but it shouldn't be too terribly bad if there is a bottleneck. The Q8200 is only marginally slower than an AMD FX-4300, which is a modern CPU priced at ~$110.

Don't downgrade to a GTX 650 Ti if you can afford a GTX 660. If you are bottlenecked, then you can simply raise the graphics settings without your frame rates taking too much of a hit. The way you can tell if the video card is bottlenecked by the CPU is if lowering graphics settings does not yield a FPS increase. The higher the settings, the less of a relative bottleneck there will be on the video card.

 

[lcp1109]

the answer you want is probably here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1756334/core-quad-bottleneck-gtx-660.html