Raedon 4870 => GTX 560 Ti

[timma]

if you still use 4870 512MB VRAM,it's good for upgrade to GTX 560 Ti SOC 1GB.
Good CUDA computing and lower GPU temp.

 

[bryanW1995]

I am sure about that and well aware of it. Actually from day 1 I go onto forums, people keep telling me that. Even though it is not 3.6GHz overclockable, I can still manage to make it going at 3.0GHz, but at idle, its temperature already shoots up to as high as 55 Celsius. After running any games, it could go as high as 76 Celsius. I know for a fact that will shorten the life span of the CPU. Actually, this Q6600 die was first deployed on another machine and I migrated it to the current rig I have 2 years ago. So it is already some 3 years in service from day 0.

And it is still doing well is because I never overclock it.

Put it this way, if i5 2500K @ 3.3 is the same as Q6600 @3.0 (overclocked), I would rather get a i5 2500K to have it running quiet and cooler. The only question now I have is that: Is the performance of the i5 2500K @ 3.3 (stock speed) the same as Q6600 @ 3.0 (overclocked)? If so, I would very much likely switch to the i5 2500K, then I will keep the Q6600 as a collection in my home museum

By the way, a mild overclock of a Q6600 is basically a given. Intel artificially limited the Q6600 clocks to get better yields, but the vast majority clock to well over 3.0 (and could have from day 1). So technically you're not so much overclocking them as you are just running them at a "normal" speed. You might chop a few years off the life of it by doing so, but that means that you might end up with a 15 year instead of 20 year life out of it. If you use the factory cpu cooler you're probalby limited to about 3.0, with aftermarket cooling and a good case it is typical to get ~ 3.6.

 

[Tk1]

By the way, a mild overclock of a Q6600 is basically a given. Intel artificially limited the Q6600 clocks to get better yields, but the vast majority clock to well over 3.0 (and could have from day 1). So technically you're not so much overclocking them as you are just running them at a "normal" speed. You might chop a few years off the life of it by doing so, but that means that you might end up with a 15 year instead of 20 year life out of it. If you use the factory cpu cooler you're probalby limited to about 3.0, with aftermarket cooling and a good case it is typical to get ~ 3.6.

I listen to you folks.

I have managed to o/c the CPU to 3.3GHz (9*370), happy. The peak temp was 67 Celsius, by the way what is the max tolerable limit?

So I ran the same flight simulation, to my surprise, the frame rate improved only by 6 to 7 frames and is still holding at around 18~20 which is not playable.

By the way, after changing from 4870 to 560 Ti, the system is stable at 3.3GHz. Before the migration, it enevr went beyond 2.9GHz and was very unstable. So, does gfx card also affect o/c of CPU?

Now that I have the CPU running considerable faster, why the 560 Ti is not coping and not running faster?