[SOLVED] HD 6570 and Intel Quad Q6600 compatibility ?

[cagri123]

Are HD 6570 and Intel Q6600 compatible? Will there be a bottleneck?

 

[--SID--]

Bottlekneck for what? The whole system is a bottlekneck nowadays. The cpu is 14 years old.

 

[Joseph_138]

Are you overclocking the Q6600? That chip was an overclocking monster back in the day if you have the one with the SLACR stepping. Either way, I think the 6570 is probably not going to be a good match for it. When I upgraded one of my Dell XPS systems to a QX6800, it had a HD 5850 in it, and even that was bottlenecking like crazy in modern games. I put a R9 280X in it, and it was OK for a while after that, until I found out that motherboard can't handle that CPU and needed an upgrade to later revision with better VRM's. Faced with a major expenditure and lots of hassles trying to swap out the motherboard, my only realistic option is to find a dual core extreme CPU and put that in, instead. An X6800 only draws 75W, vs 130W for the QX6800. I might also try a Q6600, since that only draws 105W, and they are dirt cheap right now. It's just easier and cheaper to do it that way and save the QX6800 for a future project.

 

[spentshells]

They will be fine, it should work out just right. If you were looking to overclock the q6600 you could easily get a better graphics card. I had mine OC'd pretty heavily with a GTX570 which was also modded and overclocked quite extensively.

Just because it was my fave to overclock and mess with I have to share,

https://imgur.com/a/kndMuHK

View: https://imgur.com/a/kndMuHK

 

[Wyatt Liu]

Classic CPU and GPU, perfect combination.