Best pair of GPU for CPU ( Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66 GHz)

[jobbydude]

I've been trying to look for graphics card that suit my processor without upgrading it. I searched that the Intel Core 2 Duo is a pretty decent processor for gaming. I want to know which graphics card is best for my cpu without bottleneck. Like they are made for each other suppose that Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 is my only available processor.

Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66 GHz
4 GB RAM
550W PSU
NVIDIA 7600 GT(current)
Bought this old 2nd hand PC for cheap.

[xSOSxHawkens]

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j0BBY の投稿を引用：

So a GTX 750 Ti will work fine with a crappy CPU? So that means anything lower than GTX 750 Ti is compatible?

Assuming the PSU is in good shape and it's able to supply what it is advertsing pretty much any card should run. If the PSU is as old as the rest of the computer is I wouldn't trust it.

But the age of your hardware might causes issues with more modern cards. I have seen it happen quite a lot that cards of the GTX 700 series and newer don't work in Core2 machines with early 775 motherboards.

Odd, I have used newer NV cards on older AMD systems without issue. Once put a GTX-960 4GB into an nforce4 based socket 939 dualcore build just to run firestrike on DDR-400 RAM. (it ran).

Perhaps it has more to do with the Intel chipsets than the CPU/Card?

As for the OP, I would suggest, as others have, a system swap. Try and sell this one off for 25-35 bucks, its a decent machine for a grandma or a mom who has a gradeschool kid that needs to do homework. It can browse the web and do office work etc. I am litteraly typing this to you on a mahcine weaker than yours, and it runs windows 10 and steam with a browser open and a few tabs just fine.

then drop 100-150 on a pre built machine with a mid range i5 or if lucky lower end i7 and toss a 100 buck card such as an RX570 4GB into there and you have a machine that will run all the games you want to run (from your list) at 1080p and good settings.

[Unborn]

lol

[Brimac]

Most of the newer cards will not function on older legacy bios, but rather need a uefi one.
he could use gtx 650,740,750,750ti,660/ amd r7 250,260,260x and still manage to run older, indie,and less demanding newer games.I have used many c2q and c2duo on these no problems.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

That PC will barely do YouTube and Netflix smoothly, IDK what gpu u put in it. It's not going to even run csgo well.

[Omega]

Bad 💀 Motha の投稿を引用：

That PC will barely do YouTube and Netflix smoothly, IDK what gpu u put in it. It's not going to even run csgo well.

CSGO is a game from 2012 running on an upgraded 25 year old engine. I am sure it will run perfectly playable.

[_I_]

orig cs uses the quake 3 engine, thats the 25+yr old engine

csgo uses source, 15yr old engine

[Omega]

_I_ の投稿を引用：

orig cs uses the quake 3 engine, thats the 25+yr old engine

csgo uses source, 15yr old engine

Source is also just a heavily modified Gold Source engine. Which is why I stated the age of the Quake Engine.

[xSOSxHawkens]

Bad 💀 Motha の投稿を引用：

That PC will barely do YouTube and Netflix smoothly, IDK what gpu u put in it. It's not going to even run csgo well.

Fwiw he would be fine with yt and netflix. Assuming a decent gpu, his CPU is still faster than things like slower dualcore fx era APU's. Those are still seen often in prebuilds and laptops on the low end. They work fine enough for yt and so would his.

In fullscreen he could even pull hd so long as the gpu takes the brunt via hardware decode. Would be choppy in window.

Even old Intel GMA cand handle full screen netflix, barely. I use an IBM Thinkpad with an Intel Core Duo L2500. Not a typo, core not core2. Its an x86 only dualcore at 1.8gjz with no x64. Run it with 3gb ram and an ssd with win10 and it can just pull netflix and general web use duties. It was the machine I wrote that last post on :)

[L37]

Thing is, while old, this CPU-s are not as bad as might seem. They still outperform a lot of modern stuff like tablets and cheap laptops by far.
I've done "almost free gaming PC" buld kind of similar to what OP describes some time ago (mostly for the fun of the process).
It's C2D E8600, terrible cheap office G31-based motherboard, 4GB DDR2-800, GTX660 and some random old 500W PSU.
Kind of surprizing how much games (including modern ones) it can run. Pretty much anything apart from what's called "AAA games" nowadays.

If i was to give some advice...
Check your motherboard/chipset, it is the most important part. Depending on that you might have different RAM (and different max ram capacity) and different CPU support. It is possible to buy better dual-core (E8500/E8600) or quad core CPU-s for a price of average cup of coffee, assuming motherboard supports it. Adding more RAM if possible will help A LOT too.
For GPU - what i actually tried and it worked fine are GTX660 and GTX750TI. Other than that - just have to be careful with the fact that some cards may have issues with legacy BIOS and pci-e 1.0. Probably better to search for compatibility info on specific cards once you find something you want to buy.

[jobbydude]

L37 の投稿を引用：

Thing is, while old, this CPU-s are not as bad as might seem. They still outperform a lot of modern stuff like tablets and cheap laptops by far.
I've done "almost free gaming PC" buld kind of similar to what OP describes some time ago (mostly for the fun of the process).
It's C2D E8600, terrible cheap office G31-based motherboard, 4GB DDR2-800, GTX660 and some random old 500W PSU.
Kind of surprizing how much games (including modern ones) it can run. Pretty much anything apart from what's called "AAA games" nowadays.

If i was to give some advice...
Check your motherboard/chipset, it is the most important part. Depending on that you might have different RAM (and different max ram capacity) and different CPU support. It is possible to buy better dual-core (E8500/E8600) or quad core CPU-s for a price of average cup of coffee, assuming motherboard supports it. Adding more RAM if possible will help A LOT too.
For GPU - what i actually tried and it worked fine are GTX660 and GTX750TI. Other than that - just have to be careful with the fact that some cards may have issues with legacy BIOS and pci-e 1.0. Probably better to search for compatibility info on specific cards once you find something you want to buy.

So it's possible to put a newer low-mid graphics card together with an older cpu, just add more RAM?

[L37]

j0BBY の投稿を引用：

So it's possible to put a newer low-mid graphics card together with an older cpu, just add more RAM?

It is possible if you are willing to do some research and spend some time doing it.

RAM depends on the motherboard. One i used is limited to 4GB DDR2. However there were motherboards for LGA775 which used DDR3. Max capacity can also be different.

For GPU-s - there might be some issues with modern GPU-s on legacy BIOS. They do not always work. By modern i mean GTX10*/RTX*/RX4*/RX5*. So if you want to try one of those better be sure that you can return it if it does not work. Older ones, like GTX6*/GTX7* work without issues, and something like GTX760, for example, can run pretty much any modern game decently.

First thing you should do is google your motherboard model and see CPU/RAM support.