Q6600,8gb r720p

[LiengLiengZA]

Morning my'bbers,

My friend has a Q6600 with 8gb DDR3 ram. His son wants to game on the PC but doesn't have funds to upgrade the PC.
His son wants play like Farcry 5 and AC Origins, FH 4 etc.....he only has a 720p screen with GT210 card currently.

If he gets a bigger PSU and a better card and swop one 4gb ram out for 8gb (12gb total) will he be able to play those games or is the components too old?

 

[Scooby_Doo]

He would need a new GPU.

Would the CPU be able to handle it if you got a new GPU? Doubtful, at best the GPU would be CPU limited, but I have no evidence to support that statement.

 

[Polymathic]

 

[ArmatageShanks]

Upgrade the GPU first, have a look at second hand stuff on carbonite, keep in mind for all those games you'll need at least 2Gb of video memmory.

 

[rambo919]

Children must learn to work with what they got....

Don't do uneven RAM, performance will suffer

A new set of GPU, matched PSU & SSD should sort him out well enough for now.

At 720p a 4GB GPU should be fine, there will be slight bottleneck with CPU but most games are still based on PS4 level tech anyway.

 

[rambo919]

Upgrade the GPU first, have a look at second hand stuff on carbonite, keep in mind for all those games you'll need at least 2Gb of video memmory.

2GB is the absolute minimum these days.... win10 is a hog

 

[Scooby_Doo]

Even that low end GPU being used in the build is only being utilised less than 50% and even as low as 20% in some of those games.

 

[ArmatageShanks]

Even that low end GPU being used in the build is only being utilised less than 50% and even as low as 20% in some of those games.

I had a GTX470 with 1.3Gb of VRAM, as soon as you fill it up things start going bad and slow regardless of how much horsepower you have left.

 

[LiengLiengZA]

So what card must I look at getting and will the swop out of ram to 12gb be fine?

Was thinking RX580 4gb?

 

[LiengLiengZA]

Even that low end GPU being used in the build is only being utilised less than 50% and even as low as 20% in some of those games.

Meaning getting a bigger card won't help because of CPU?

 

[Rocket-Boy]

Q6600 was a beast for overclocking in its days.
Still its not going to be comparable with modern CPU's even in an overclocked state.

 

[A3@MBB]

Start from scratch, even a Sandy bridge i3 will be faster than the Core2Quad.

Use the budget from the Rx580 to get mobo+cpu+gpu.

 

[Polymathic]

Q6600 was a beast for overclocking in its days.
Still its not going to be comparable with modern CPU's even in an overclocked state.

I ran a Q6600 with a 1GB 6/7 series card all the way up to 2013, back then even the newer games struggled to reach 60FPS

 

[Polymathic]

Start from scratch, even a Sandy bridge i3 will be faster than the Core2Quad.

Use the budget from the Rx580 to get mobo+cpu+gpu.

At that point it's probably better just to get an Ryzen APU.

 

[Mystic Twilight]

It's a good time for the kid to learn how to earn pocket money from doing weekend part time jobs.

 

[DanDango]

With that set up a GTX 750 Ti is not a bad card to get.

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[LiengLiengZA]

It's a good time for the kid to learn how to earn pocket money from doing weekend part time jobs.

Money he had until it got stolen..the kid has a PS3 with 54 games,4 controllers and a bunch of other accessories he wants to sell just to get a half decent gaming PC.

 

[Nerfherder]

Start from scratch, even a Sandy bridge i3 will be faster than the Core2Quad.

Use the budget from the Rx580 to get mobo+cpu+gpu.

I actually did this. I had a Q6600 and replaced it with an i3 and it was actually better.

My MB actually died so I had to replace it but I think there will be a generational compatibility issue with putting a new card in that Q6600 (Which is PCI v1) all the cards you get now are going to be PCI 3 ?

Just getting that card might be a risk. If someone is able to let you test it out first then could be worth trying.

 

[ponder]

My MB actually died so I had to replace it but I think there will be a generational compatibility issue with putting a new card in that Q6600 (Which is PCI v1) all the cards you get now are going to be PCI 3 ?

It's not an issue, PCIe v1-3 are backwards/forwards compatible.

 

[LiengLiengZA]

So basically 3rd gen / 4th gen i5 will be sufficient?