My molested MSI GTX 670 in my Q9650 system.

[The_Golden_Man]

After I got my two ASUS GTX 670 DC II for my primary rig, I installed my molested MSI GTX 670 reference with AC Twin Turbo II in my secondary rig.

This rig is based on a ASUS P5Q-E P45 mobo and a Q9650@4GHz. It is connected to my Sony Bravia 46" LED TV in my living room.

Here is my 3DMark11 score (Stretched mode) and GTX 670 overclocked to 1238MHz boost and 6.8GHz mem.

A little bottleneck here, when compared to my Sandy system (about 9600 - 9800 points) for same card and clocks.

Will be testing a few games to see how much my Q9650@4GHz/DDR2 based system bottlenecks a single GTX 670.

 

[lehtv]

Was the Twin Turbo II not a good idea? You like the Asus reference cooler better?

 

[The_Golden_Man]

Was the Twin Turbo II not a good idea? You like the Asus reference cooler better?

The Twin Turbo II is awesome. What I meant was everything I had done to this card while trying to get rid of coil whine.

The card is still working fine though.

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

That CPU at those clocks shouldn't bottleneck the GTX 670 very badly in real games, sure the synthetic benchmarks would show some difference but I bet it would be hard to detect a difference between an overclocked Ivy and that system in normal gameplay.

 

[The_Golden_Man]

That CPU at those clocks shouldn't bottleneck the GTX 670 very badly in real games, sure the synthetic benchmarks would show some difference but I bet it would be hard to detect a difference between an overclocked Ivy and that system in normal gameplay.

Experiencing bottlenecking in The Witcher 2 right now. 1920x1080, Ultra, ubersampling and Vsync disabled. Some places the FPS is up where it was in my Sandybridge system, but other places it is much lower, like loosing 30fps when compared to Sandy (From 70 to 40FPS). At this time the GPU usage is all the way down to 60%.

No surprise here. Even my old GTX 570 began to show some bottlenecking with the Q9650@4GHz. This GTX 670 is about 50% faster than the GTX 570, so no wonder.

Of course it will vary from game to game.

I would not recommend anyone with a similar CPU, or any AMD CPU to buy a GTX 670 or higher though. You need Sandy/Ivy for these GPU's to shine.

 

[skipsneeky2]

Such a shame to have such a gpu in such a dated pc build,my old q6600@ 3.2ghz used to bottleneck my old gtx295 and switching over to the then new i7 900 series really just opened new doors so a bottleneck on a gtx670 on any core 2 quad is to expected.

Not sure how a gtx295 match's up to a modern single gpu but i would gander it would be about gtx570 performance.

 

[The_Golden_Man]

Such a shame to have such a gpu in such a dated pc build,my old q6600@ 3.2ghz used to bottleneck my old gtx295 and switching over to the then new i7 900 series really just opened new doors so a bottleneck on a gtx670 on any core 2 quad is to expected.

Not sure how a gtx295 match's up to a modern single gpu but i would gander it would be about gtx570 performance.

Please remember I did this just because I had a spare GTX 670. My primary rig is in my sig.

Yeah, I'd guess the GTX295 is comparable to a GTX 570 or maybe a tad slower.

 

[skipsneeky2]

Please remember I did this just because I had a spare GTX 670. My primary rig is in my sig.

Yeah, I'd guess the GTX295 is comparable to a GTX 570 or maybe a tad slower.

If that old q5500 just played console port games and newer games at a lower resolution,the bottleneck really couldn't be seen cause performance would be pretty much off the charts,so that machine would still have some years left so not a bad addition still to the old beast.

Friend of mine purchased my old q6600 back in 2009 and to this day he still raves from time to time how that cpu and the gts250 are so smooth in games so i think a core 2 quad can still hold up in plenty of games and will for a little while yet.