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Is Phenom 8400 a bottleneck?

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May 23, 2009 5:35:14 AM

Hello.
I had the Phenom x3 8400 for about a year now.
I had absolutely no problems with it. In fact, I was pretty happy with it.
However, recently I started playing Company of Heroes, which caused my CPU to lag like hell.
I get the feeling that the game uses only 1 core, because larger maps lag me to death and as more units spawn the game is very stuttery.
Other games run perfect with my HD4850 (Crysis@30fps, CoD4@100fps, etc)
Anyone know a hotfix for this? Any help would be appreciated.
And if I HAVE to upgrade my cpu, I'm planning on the Phenom II x3 720.
I have an ASUS M2N-LA (Narra3) mobo with Phoenix AwardBIOS 6.00PG, will it support the Phenom IIs???
Thanks in advance!

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May 23, 2009 7:58:10 AM

What resolution are you playing your games at?
May 23, 2009 7:27:32 PM

I'm running the game at 1280x1024, and I think my graphic card is good enough to handle that.
And yes, my motherboard NARRA3 supports the Phenom 8400, or any other Phenom up to 95W (socket AM2+).
May 24, 2009 1:58:42 AM

Lol, I knew that my mobo supported it, only that I was afraid it couldn't be used to its full potential
because the BIOS was locked and could not be updated further.
Anyways, the problem was lying in NOD32, which I erased and got a new antivirus.
Company of Heroes runs pretty smooth now.
I appreciate the help though :)  Thanks.
!