Quad Core Q6600 2.4GHz with GeForce GTX 770 Bottleneck

[tony2362]

I'm building my first gaming computer but waiting for better deals on black friday to get more parts. I just got my MSI Gaming N770 TF 2GD5/OC GeForce GTX 770 2GB the other day. I'm wondering would it even be worth trying it out in my current computer? Or just wait until I get the rest of my new computer after black friday. I'm currently using a quad core 2.4Ghz Q6600 with only 4 gigs of ram and Radeon HD 6850 and able to play BF4 on lowest settings with around 30 fps. I know my cpu is already bottlenecking my 6850 so I don't know if I would even gain anything with the 770. But on the other hand at least I would know if my new gpu was doa or not. What do you guys think?

 

[rolandzhang3]

Wouldn't hurt to test if the GPU is working, just make sure that your power supply is up to the task if you want to test it

 

[tony2362]

It should be fine. I havn't had any problems before and if I remember right I think its 750 watt.

 

[rolandzhang3]

As long as it's a decent one then you're fine. Might as well test it to see if it'll run properly

 

[tony2362]

Allright thx for the help I'll probobly do that in the morning. Still curious if anyone thinks I'll get any increase in performance but I guess I'll find out when I try it lol.

 

[rolandzhang3]

Probably a few frames of improvement, in multithreaded games the Q6600 is still fairly usable xD