Hello, first time poster here.
My rig is as follows:
Motherboard: ASUS M2A-VM 690G Micro ATX HDMI
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ 3.2ghz
RAM: 4x1GB A-DATA DDR2800
Video Card: Sapphire 512MB GDDR4 HD3870
Hard Drive: 7200 RPM 160GB Western Digital
Monitor: Samsung 206BW 20" Widescreen LCD (1680x1050 native resolution)
I understand that I do not have the best components at the moment, but I feel that I should be getting better performance from the games that I am playing.
I mainly play World of Warcraft at 1680x1050 with 4x AA and the graphics are set at "Good". My framerates are generally from 40-80 FPS except when in Dalaran, 25-man raids or even when traveling through certain Northrend zones at high speed. In these zones, my framerate is usually anywhere from 10-25 FPS. During 25-man boss encounters, the framerate drop is almost unbearable and certainly affects my performance in the raid.
I have tested other games such as Call of Duty World at War and I receive around 50-60 FPS when not in combat, but during combat it usually goes down to around 30-40 FPS and even as low as 24 FPS during explosions. All graphics are set to "automatic" at 1680x1050 with 4x AA.
My CPU and video card idle at around 45 C and get up to around 58 C under load, 60 C max. I am using stock cooling with both the video card and CPU.
If there is a bottleneck, I would guess that it would be my motherboard because it is probably the oldest component and is now a deactivated item on Newegg.com. The motherboard's HT is 1000mhz and the processor's HT is 2000mhz. Also, the HD3870 is PCI-Express 2.0 and the board only supports PCI-E 1.0. The chipset standard for Micro-ATX boards is the 780G, so I'm thinking that the M2A-VM's older chipset, the 690G, may be bottlenecking my components as well.
My question is this: Can any of you see a bottleneck from glancing at my hardware? Or is something else affecting my performance?
Thanks in advance!
-Ricky
My rig is as follows:
Motherboard: ASUS M2A-VM 690G Micro ATX HDMI
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ 3.2ghz
RAM: 4x1GB A-DATA DDR2800
Video Card: Sapphire 512MB GDDR4 HD3870
Hard Drive: 7200 RPM 160GB Western Digital
Monitor: Samsung 206BW 20" Widescreen LCD (1680x1050 native resolution)
I understand that I do not have the best components at the moment, but I feel that I should be getting better performance from the games that I am playing.
I mainly play World of Warcraft at 1680x1050 with 4x AA and the graphics are set at "Good". My framerates are generally from 40-80 FPS except when in Dalaran, 25-man raids or even when traveling through certain Northrend zones at high speed. In these zones, my framerate is usually anywhere from 10-25 FPS. During 25-man boss encounters, the framerate drop is almost unbearable and certainly affects my performance in the raid.
I have tested other games such as Call of Duty World at War and I receive around 50-60 FPS when not in combat, but during combat it usually goes down to around 30-40 FPS and even as low as 24 FPS during explosions. All graphics are set to "automatic" at 1680x1050 with 4x AA.
My CPU and video card idle at around 45 C and get up to around 58 C under load, 60 C max. I am using stock cooling with both the video card and CPU.
If there is a bottleneck, I would guess that it would be my motherboard because it is probably the oldest component and is now a deactivated item on Newegg.com. The motherboard's HT is 1000mhz and the processor's HT is 2000mhz. Also, the HD3870 is PCI-Express 2.0 and the board only supports PCI-E 1.0. The chipset standard for Micro-ATX boards is the 780G, so I'm thinking that the M2A-VM's older chipset, the 690G, may be bottlenecking my components as well.
My question is this: Can any of you see a bottleneck from glancing at my hardware? Or is something else affecting my performance?
Thanks in advance!
-Ricky
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