Ok here is my situation. I just put together a PC for my nephew prerebuild was a PentD 3.2 (yea I know), 4 gig mem, Saph 1650 pro DDR3 GPU, xp pro 64bit, screen resolution 1680X1050 22" LCD.
BF2142 ran great, BF2 ran great, EQ2 ran great, so on.
Placed in a Diamond HD3850 256, uninstalled drivers, ran driver cleaner installed 7.11 7.12 and tried 8.1. Going down to even 1024X780 was horrible.
Now every game is lagtastic and shutters. When I did my HD3850's mine were brought in a duo core system. I could see the difference. In his it got worse.
I ran 3dmark 6 pre GPU upgrade gave me a CPU score of 2035 post upgrade a score of 500.
Just want to make sure of this before I make him mow my lawn for the summer for a new MB and CPU.
BF2142 ran great, BF2 ran great, EQ2 ran great, so on.
Placed in a Diamond HD3850 256, uninstalled drivers, ran driver cleaner installed 7.11 7.12 and tried 8.1. Going down to even 1024X780 was horrible.
Now every game is lagtastic and shutters. When I did my HD3850's mine were brought in a duo core system. I could see the difference. In his it got worse.
I ran 3dmark 6 pre GPU upgrade gave me a CPU score of 2035 post upgrade a score of 500.
Just want to make sure of this before I make him mow my lawn for the summer for a new MB and CPU.