Conure Posted January 2, 2011 Author Posted January 2, 2011 Thanks ethereal :-) I will do just that. I hope the gtx460 fives me a good fps boost! Thanks again! Intel i7 6700k, Asus GTX1070, 16gb DDR4 @ 3200mhz, CH Fighterstick, CH Pro Throttle, CH Pro Rudder Pedals, Samsung Evo 850 SSD @ 500GB * 2, TrackIR 5 and 27" monitor running at 2560 * 1440, Windows 10.
Thorvald Posted January 2, 2011 Posted January 2, 2011 (edited) You'll be just fine with the Q6600! Just need to do a few basic things: 1. Over clock to at least 3.2 or 3.4Ghz, dead easy, just crank fsb up and CPU voltage to 1.5 for most chips. Water-cooling or good fan recommended, just watch the temps. I Personally water cool as it was fun to do and very cheap (my starter kit for CPU only was less than $150). 4 Ghz is fairly easy too but I'm happy with 3.4 myself. 2. Gtx 460 put my machine into nearly max on all settings and when full screen, I had well over 50fps. Windowed mode was a little less but tha may be fixed later in better builds of A10. I could not crank MSAA but still was very impressed. 3. Bump up to 6 or 8th of ram, my machine eats just over 4gb running the OS, A10 and some other tools. 4. If your motherboard is ancient, look for a used deal on an Nforce 780i or 790i, killer boards for the Q6600. 5. Install Windows 7 Pro 64bit if you have not already, then you can run A10 in 64 bit mode and enjoy a much more stable OS and some more fps as well! --- I've now moved up to the Gtx 580 which then allowed me to max absolutely everything and get well over 60fps in full screen mode. I'm personally waiting for the Sandybridge and whatever new top board Evga comes out with. For now the Q6600 is still doing great! Cheers Tim Edited January 2, 2011 by Thorvald System: Win10 Pro 64bit, Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 7 MB, Intel i& 8700K, Corsair H150i Pro Cooler, Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 16GB, PNY NVidia 1070 GTX, Corsair MP500 & MP600 SSD, Soundblaster Audigy Rx, CM Mastercase H500P, Oculus Rift S, TM Warthogs.
Thorvald Posted January 2, 2011 Posted January 2, 2011 Actually there may be some free motherboards around since a lot of people have moved away from the 775 socket. I personally have a basically brand new Asus Striker motherboard you can have for the price of shipping, it's been sitting in it's box for ages. I moved to the 790i almost right away and never really used the Striker. Cheers Tim System: Win10 Pro 64bit, Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 7 MB, Intel i& 8700K, Corsair H150i Pro Cooler, Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 16GB, PNY NVidia 1070 GTX, Corsair MP500 & MP600 SSD, Soundblaster Audigy Rx, CM Mastercase H500P, Oculus Rift S, TM Warthogs.
Conure Posted January 2, 2011 Author Posted January 2, 2011 Actually there may be some free motherboards around since a lot of people have moved away from the 775 socket. I personally have a basically brand new Asus Striker motherboard you can have for the price of shipping, it's been sitting in it's box for ages. I moved to the 790i almost right away and never really used the Striker. Cheers Tim That is extremely generous of you! Where are you based? Thank you!! Intel i7 6700k, Asus GTX1070, 16gb DDR4 @ 3200mhz, CH Fighterstick, CH Pro Throttle, CH Pro Rudder Pedals, Samsung Evo 850 SSD @ 500GB * 2, TrackIR 5 and 27" monitor running at 2560 * 1440, Windows 10.
EtherealN Posted January 2, 2011 Posted January 2, 2011 Midwestboi, the OS upgrade will probably be the biggest update there, though I am extremely bad with pre-5xxx Radeon cards. But in the end, such an upgrade would give you somewhere around the performance (possibly slight lower, due to smaller L2 in that proc, if my memory serves) my machine gets at stock - which means, it should serve well. You won't max water and effects and all that, but it should still perform admirably and be very playable. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Daniel "EtherealN" Agorander | Даниэль "эфирныйн" Агорандер Intel i7 2600K @ 4.4GHz, ASUS Sabertooth P67, 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600MHz, ASUS GTX 560Ti DirectCU II 1GB, Samsung 830series 512GB SSD, Corsair AX850w, two BENQ screens and TM HOTAS Warthog DCS: A-10C Warthog FAQ | DCS: P-51D FAQ | Remember to read the Forum Rules | | | Life of a Game Tester
E-Rock Posted January 3, 2011 Posted January 3, 2011 You'll be just fine with the Q6600! Just need to do a few basic things: 1. Over clock to at least 3.2 or 3.4Ghz, dead easy, just crank fsb up and CPU voltage to 1.5 for most chips. Water-cooling or good fan recommended, just watch the temps. I Personally water cool as it was fun to do and very cheap (my starter kit for CPU only was less than $150). 4 Ghz is fairly easy too but I'm happy with 3.4 myself. 2. Gtx 460 put my machine into nearly max on all settings and when full screen, I had well over 50fps. Windowed mode was a little less but tha may be fixed later in better builds of A10. I could not crank MSAA but still was very impressed. 3. Bump up to 6 or 8th of ram, my machine eats just over 4gb running the OS, A10 and some other tools. 4. If your motherboard is ancient, look for a used deal on an Nforce 780i or 790i, killer boards for the Q6600. 5. Install Windows 7 Pro 64bit if you have not already, then you can run A10 in 64 bit mode and enjoy a much more stable OS and some more fps as well! --- I've now moved up to the Gtx 580 which then allowed me to max absolutely everything and get well over 60fps in full screen mode. I'm personally waiting for the Sandybridge and whatever new top board Evga comes out with. For now the Q6600 is still doing great! Cheers Tim Interesting. I'm running Q6600 oc'ed to 3.6ghz with 1600mhz FSB, 4gb RAM, EVGA GTX285 1gb and W7 64-bit but I'm nowhere near 50fps, most times I'm hovering around 20-35fps. Can a GTX460/580 card make that much difference with fps? Can you please do me a huge favour and list your graphic option settings and provide a .trk file for me to benchmark? Thx.
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