Change Graphic card still low perfomance need help.?

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Silser

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Hi,
I recently choose to upgrade my graphic card to be able to run some new game on my pc with good graphic. All i play pretty much is RTS game wich dosnt required as much power as the FPS shooter game.

So i Change my old Nvidia GTS 450 card and bought a Nvidia 660 GTX wich i think should be better but infact i cant run the game i use to any better maybe i gain around 10 ish Frame per sec. I dont know if it could be because of one of my other part in my computer here it is:

-MSI 785GM-E51 Motherboard
-AMD athlon II x4 640 3ghz
-4 Gb RAM
-550 watt power supply
-Nvidia GTX 660
-Seagate 500 gb HDD
-Window 7 Home premium

Do you see anything really bad in this comp what you think i should do to improve my gaming capacity thx for helping me

SRY FOR MY ENGLISH I KNOW IT IS BAD :)
 
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photonboy

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CPU.
I agree, it's the CPU. Adding more RAM will make little to no difference except for a handful of games.

The version of Windows makes little difference as well. XP, Vista, Win7/8 all have roughly the same experience with proper drivers etc installed.

The main bottleneck is simply the CPU/Motherboard. If you wish to upgrade (and it will make a HUGE DIFFERENCE when paired with a GTX660) you should be looking at something like:

- i5-3570K (or i5-4670K)
- suitable motherboard (Z77 1155 for the 3570K or Z87 1150 for the 4670K)
- 8GB DDR3 1600MHz
you probably also need a new copy of Windows:
- Windows 8 64-bit OEM
- START8 ($5 program to bring back Start Menu etc for Windows 8).
 
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photonboy

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http://techreport.com/review/23246/inside-the-second-gaming-performance-with-today-cpus/3

It VARIES by the game a lot, but the above chart should give you a rough idea of how much a CPU can bottleneck.

I would guess that your performance increase would vary anywhere between 25% and 100% improvement with an i5-3570K or similar CPU system. So you might DOUBLE your frame rate in some scenarios.

Battlefield 3 seems to be an exception and is more GPU dependent though I'm positive there are times especially in Multiplayer with large maps that the CPU does matter more.

*If you like to make VIDEOS of gameplay, note there is a tool called Shadowplay coming from NVidia that allows this for the GTX600/700 cards for a very minor (3%?) CPU hit so performance shouldn't really be affected.

Cheers.
 
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