What GPU would you recommend for a E8600 cpu?

[Ruru]

OC it as much as you can. A 750 Ti would be a killer for something like that

 

[eidairaman1]

No i was having a one to one with Fücsök.It is all sorted now.I just wondered what it was like getting a AMD cpu from Ali express or anything else on there.i have bought a couple of things on there,But never a CPU.​

Better buying a cpu from ebay (have it tested at a shop) and have buyer protection

 

[Ruru]

Better buying a cpu from ebay (have it tested at a shop) and have buyer protection

Sucks that I bought a Q6600 from ebay which was defective and I was too lazy to get a refund. Well, I guess that I'll use it to upgrade my keychain (it has a P4 NW 2.66 currently)

Though cost like 10EUR or something so wasn't so bad loss but still sucks.

 

[eidairaman1]

Sucks that I bought a Q6600 from ebay which was defective and I was too lazy to get a refund. Well, I guess that I'll use it to upgrade my keychain (it has a P4 NW 2.66 currently)

Though cost like 10EUR or something so wasn't so bad loss but still sucks.

Yeah the 5800 oem is perfect here, 262 in 21, now the X3D is 263 retail...

 

[lexluthermiester]

What GPU would you recommend for a E8600 CPU?

My 2 cents? A Geforce 8800GT or 9800GT/GTX. These are mostly period correct and a solid match for that CPU. Word of advice though: If you're going to go with XP for an OS, get 3GB of RAM (2x1GB + 2x512MB) or better. With that CPU/GPU combo, you don't want your system RAM holding you back.

 

[Ruru]

My 2 cents? A Geforce 8800GT or 9800GT/GTX. These are mostly period correct and a solid match for that CPU. Word of advice though: If you're going to go with XP for an OS, get 3GB of RAM (2x1GB + 2x512MB) or better. With that CPU/GPU combo, you don't want your system RAM holding you back.

750 Ti is my recommended one. If OP upgrades his system a little, the card would still be fine

 

[lexluthermiester]

750 Ti is my recommended one. If OP upgrades his system a little, the card would still be fine

That would of course be a good card, but WAY overkill for that CPU. Still, they are cheap and that GPU would never be the bottleneck. For that matter, neither would a 460/560GTX.

 

[Ruru]

That would of course be a good card, but WAY overkill for that CPU. Still, they are cheap and that GPU would never be the bottleneck. For that matter, neither would a 460/560GTX.

Isn't 750 Ti in about 570/580 range but with a way less power consumption and with moar vram?

 

[LabRat 891]

Isn't 750 Ti in about 570/580 range but with a way less power consumption and with moar vram?

I'd call the 750 Ti 'close' to a 570, under optimistic conditions. Still a very appropriate choice IMO; it seemed a common upgrade-card for people still on older GPUs (G92 GTS 250, etc.).

It's slower than a 650 Ti 2GB OC and GTX 660 2GB

Overlapping models graph, for position comparison

The Same 650 Ti OC 2GB that beat the 750 Ti by 9% in the first graph, is 3% slower than a 570 in the second. Roughly, the 750 Ti is ~12% slower than a 570, and far behind a 580.

 

[Ruru]

I'd call the 750 Ti 'close' to a 570, under optimistic conditions. Still a very appropriate choice IMO; it was a common upgrade-card for people still on older GPUs (like G92).

It's slower than a 650 Ti 2GB OC and GTX 660 2GB

Overlapping models graph, for position comparison

The Same 650 Ti OC 2GB that beat the 750 Ti by 9% in the first graph, is 3% slower than a 570 in the second. Roughly, the 750 Ti is ~12% slower than a 570, and far behind a 580.

Tho 750 Ti OC gets some gains. Even though if OP would put it with an E8600, I'd still give some thought to the 2GB VRAM and 2gens newer architecture and hella lower power consumption.

Where you need 2 connectors for a 570/580, most 750 Ti cards are plug-less ones.

 

[ExcuseMeWtf]

Plus 570/580 are older architecture, so worse drivers, so actually 750Ti might outperform those currently.
And 570/580 are probably in worse physical shape as cards given age and power consumption.

 

[AleXXX666]

My 2 cents? A Geforce 8800GT or 9800GT/GTX. These are mostly period correct and a solid match for that CPU. Word of advice though: If you're going to go with XP for an OS, get 3GB of RAM (2x1GB + 2x512MB) or better. With that CPU/GPU combo, you don't want your system RAM holding you back.

they are all dead, come on, 750/Ti is perfect here... or 650/Ti/TiB

Plus 570/580 are older architecture, so worse drivers, so actually 750Ti might outperform those currently.
And 570/580 are probably in worse physical shape as cards given age and power consumption.

at least one person understands that all these 8000/9000/500 series are all dead or very close to death, lol...

 

[Greenslade]

I had a Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB AGP playing COD 4 MW on the Athlon XPM 2500 at 2.2GHz and 2GB PC 3200 Ram, WD 80GB 7200 RPM Drive.

I have got the 960 the 2gb version bought it at the wrong time it was £112 in the GPU shortage time.I see cex have it in stock for £42 the 4gb version £55.

With cost and power envelope in mind, a GTX 750 or 750 Ti doesn't sound like a bad option to me if you don't mind something that's not era appropriate. See if you can get another stick of RAM for that system too. That single stick is lonely.

That is true

My 2 cents? A Geforce 8800GT or 9800GT/GTX. These are mostly period correct and a solid match for that CPU. Word of advice though: If you're going to go with XP for an OS, get 3GB of RAM (2x1GB + 2x512MB) or better. With that CPU/GPU combo, you don't want your system RAM holding you back.

I see those cards are £15 ro £20 on eBay the 9800gt being the cheaper one.You are right about the Ram.Why does Game debate take so long to load, a lot of the time it fails to load. I like checking out how they compare.

That would of course be a good card, but WAY overkill for that CPU. Still, they are cheap and that GPU would never be the bottleneck. For that matter, neither would a 460/560GTX.

What about my GTX 560 TI direct cut i got for five pounds last week. Bottleneck Calculator just over 18%.

 

[ExcuseMeWtf]

8800/9800GT are even older, and even more likely to be in failing if not straight up dead though (likely reballed, possibly more than once).

My 2 cents? Don't fixate on bottleneck too much. Best to et what's reasonable price, has enough performance bottleneck or not, and prefer low power cards due to better odds of being in reasonable physical shape.

560Ti ticks first box, but second - not so much. But with sample size = 1, might have still got a good one.

 

[Regeneration]

GT 6600 or GT 8800/9800, if you wish to stay in the past, you should do it all the way.

One day it will become very worthy as a retro vintage PC like the old Pentium MMX PCs.

 

[Greenslade]

8800/9800GT are even older, and even more likely to be in failing if not straight up dead though (likely reballed, possibly more than once).

My 2 cents? Don't fixate on bottleneck too much. Best to et what's reasonable price, has enough performance bottleneck or not, and prefer low power cards due to better odds of being in reasonable physical shape.

560Ti ticks first box, but second - not so much. But with sample size = 1, might have still got a good one.

Like you say those cards are very old.That is if it works of course

GT 6600 or GT 8800/9800, if you wish to stay in the past, you should do it all the way.

One day it will become very worthy as a retro vintage PC like the old Pentium MMX PCs.

I am a great fan of Jethro Tull though

.

 

[LabRat 891]

8800/9800GT are even older, and even more likely to be in failing if not straight up dead though (likely reballed, possibly more than once).

This has not been my experience w/ G92 cards. I have purchased 5 or 6 G92 cards in the last couple years, and every one of them worked as well as the day they were new.

Admittedly, all but one are the last-revision die-shrunk G92 in GTS 250-form.
Though, even the BFGtech card (which, is the oldest) works flawlessly

 

[freeagent]

Fwiw an E8600 at 4700 or 4800MHz is as strong as a stock Q6600, but way faster

On E8600 I ran GTX285, 295, and 4890.. But I think those newer cards you are looking at would thrash my old ones

 

[LabRat 891]

Fwiw an E8600 at 4700 or 4800MHz is as strong as a stock Q6600, but way faster

On E8600 I ran GTX285, 295, and 4890.. But I think those newer cards you are looking at would thrash my old ones

IIRC, for games that just started using multi-threading, OC'd Wolfdales (6MB L2) were beating even C2Q Extreme Editions.
BTW, 4890 was a great card. Just avoid XFX examples. That was the card-series that gave XFX a bad name for awhile.

 

[freeagent]

BTW, 4890 was a great card. Just avoid XFX examples. That was the card-series that gave XFX a bad name for awhile.

My 4890 was the fancy Asus one, with the big cap

Its funny you mentioned XFX.. That's what my 295 was, it had to be RMA'd.. and one of my 285s was an XFX too, but it was ok.

 

[mechtech]

What GPU would you recommend for a E8600 CPU?This is it here the GT 420 spins but does not boot up,the Geforce 7600gt does not spin and gets very hot.And when i had it on the board i was half way getting Vista installed and the board shut down.I was thinking something like thE GTX660 TI or the 750. i am not sure of what Radeon cards i could use ,i understand they need a lot of power.I was thinking that there might be some dust in the PCIE slot.The 750 is the most i want to pay for one.


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does the cpu not have integrated?

Here in Canada, an RX6400 is about $20 cad more than a GT1030

 

[LabRat 891]

does the cpu not have integrated?

Here in Canada, an RX6400 is about $20 cad more than a GT1030

CPU does not. IIRC, his board is a G31; so the mobo does have an IGP.

My 4890 was the fancy Asus one, with the big cap

Its funny you mentioned XFX.. That's what my 295 was, it had to be RMA'd.. and one of my 285s was an XFX too, but it was ok.

XFX was a great brand upto and including their early ATI/AMD offerings. Mid-way thru the 4800's generation/sales period (I think, about when they dropped nvidia), XFX DRASTICALLY cut-costs on the PCB, cooling, etc. Even their top-tier cards were often poorly cleaned up in post-manufacture (to me, they started the now-common flux-residue everywhere trend).
XFX permanently went onto my personal black list after I RMA'd my Ref-design 4890, and got back a card that performed worse than a well-built 4870 1GB, and was very clearly under-cooled, with over-stressed underwhelming VRMs.
Things have undoubtedly changed @ XFX since those days but, my feelings are relevant here, if looking at a used HD 4800-series.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Isn't 750 Ti in about 570/580 range but with a way less power consumption and with moar vram?

That's a very good point. A 750ti would use a lot less power.

What about my GTX 560 TI direct cut i got for five pounds last week. Bottleneck Calculator just over 18%.

That would be an excellent card and would never hold back that CPU. Since you've already got it, you're good to go!

 

[freeagent]

but, my feelings are relevant here

Oh yeah, I still hold old hardware grudges, even if other people think they are awesome

Edit:

To be fair, I blacklisted AMD for like 10 years after 939 because of 1 bad weekend lol.. I came here asking for advice and for me to try AM4 I felt like I was taking a huge leap of faith..

But AM4 ended up being pretty awesome.. no regrats

 

[lexluthermiester]

they are all dead, come on

What? Just hush..