HP a1000y
Asus P5LP-LE (Limestone 1.04)
Socket: 775
System bus 533 MHz and 800 MHz
Chipset Northbridge: Intel 945G
Memory 2G PNY PC-5400
Pentium 4 630 3.0Ghz HT, 800Mhz, 2M L2
Nvidia 7600GT 256M (DDR3 version)
500w antec (2 18A 12V rails)
The HP for home mulimedia use is fine. I have gamed on it for 3 years. I am going to upgrade my video to a 3870 as soon as they are in stock. I plan on building a new game pc in a couple of months. But, for now what can i do to get more out of my system. I am playing COD4 now. I am getting 40FPS at low and 90+ at its best. sometimes it drops to high 30s with a lot of explosions. 1024x768 AAx2, everything else on low or off.
Video: I installed Ntune, but unintstalled it after i read some reviews. I then installed Riva, but dont really understand what i am doing and i didnt get that much out of it. I didnt notice much of an increase in FPS, maybe even a drop. could i have pushed it to much. I seemed stable.
CPU: any ideas? utilities, speeds, clock, anything. My bios doesn't seem to allow any CPU changes.
Asus P5LP-LE (Limestone 1.04)
Socket: 775
System bus 533 MHz and 800 MHz
Chipset Northbridge: Intel 945G
Memory 2G PNY PC-5400
Pentium 4 630 3.0Ghz HT, 800Mhz, 2M L2
Nvidia 7600GT 256M (DDR3 version)
500w antec (2 18A 12V rails)
The HP for home mulimedia use is fine. I have gamed on it for 3 years. I am going to upgrade my video to a 3870 as soon as they are in stock. I plan on building a new game pc in a couple of months. But, for now what can i do to get more out of my system. I am playing COD4 now. I am getting 40FPS at low and 90+ at its best. sometimes it drops to high 30s with a lot of explosions. 1024x768 AAx2, everything else on low or off.
Video: I installed Ntune, but unintstalled it after i read some reviews. I then installed Riva, but dont really understand what i am doing and i didnt get that much out of it. I didnt notice much of an increase in FPS, maybe even a drop. could i have pushed it to much. I seemed stable.
CPU: any ideas? utilities, speeds, clock, anything. My bios doesn't seem to allow any CPU changes.