Old q6600 dell. Which video card

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EchoMatrix

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I pawned off most my parts of my old q6600 dell but rebuilding it for a lan PC and thinking about going SLi for a hobby pc. What would be a good new or old setup for an old dell between $200-300 unless you think thats way over priced for the CPU.

its a dell xps and has a power supply of like 750 i believe but it had a gtx 570 back in the day which worked fine. didn't over clock it much

Edit: its a dell xps 720 I think so its not your typical beige dell box
 
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Are you replacing the motherboard? Or just the video card?
 
GeForce GTX 660 Ti or AMD 7870 will fit the bill but you also might need a psu upgrade
 
If you can go to $300 then grab a 7950 with a good cooler on it (msi, sapphire, gigabyte) and oc it. Or you could wait for the gtx 760 that's coming soon and supposed to be $299.
 
EchoMatrix said:
I pawned off most my parts of my old q6600 dell but rebuilding it for a lan PC and thinking about going SLi for a hobby pc. What would be a good new or old setup for an old dell between $200-300 unless you think thats way over priced for the CPU.

its a dell xps and has a power supply of like 750 i believe but it had a gtx 570 back in the day which worked fine. didn't over clock it much

Edit: its a dell xps 720 I think so its not your typical beige dell box
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Radeon HD-7850. Perfect LAN video card.
 
257Tony said:
If you can go to $300 then grab a 7950 with a good cooler on it (msi, sapphire, gigabyte) and oc it. Or you could wait for the gtx 760 that's coming soon and supposed to be $299.
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a 7950 would go to waste big time with a stock Q6600. he will get the same overall playable performance with a 7870 or probably even 7850. heck even with a 7850, that cpu will really hold him back in some game.
 
cannondale06 said:
a 7950 would go to waste big time with a stock Q6600. he will get the same overall playable performance with a 7870 or probably even 7850. heck even with a 7850, that cpu will really hold him back in some game.
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^ what he said . . .
 
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