Hello everyone,
I got this PC from a hand-me-down and cleaned it up quite a bit. Upgraded it the best I could because I'm not rich atm.
But basically I think I know where my bottleneck is, I just can't believe that its as bad as it is I guess..?
Started With
1 GB Generic Ram
Integrated Nvidia Graphics
AMD Athalon 64 x2 3800+
Now I Have
4GB GSKILL RAM
NVIDIA 210 1GB DDR3
AMD Athalon 64 x2 3800+
It's pretty obvious that the CPU is the issue here, I had an 8600gt in there for about a day, and I'm not noticing any performance increase at all from the 8600 to the 210. Is it just because the card isn't really an upgrade? The 8600 only had 512 mb of RAM.
The game in particular in question is about 5-6 years old and I just can't believe that this PC isn't capable of that. However every time I pop out of the game to check my CPU is running at 100% and i'm still floating around with about a gig and a half of ram left over.
I guess my question here is, would I get enough of a performance increase from buying another AM2 processor (i've priced one around 60$) or should I just wait and buck up 100$ or so for a new mobo and get something AM3 range?
Thanks guys
DB
I got this PC from a hand-me-down and cleaned it up quite a bit. Upgraded it the best I could because I'm not rich atm.
But basically I think I know where my bottleneck is, I just can't believe that its as bad as it is I guess..?
Started With
1 GB Generic Ram
Integrated Nvidia Graphics
AMD Athalon 64 x2 3800+
Now I Have
4GB GSKILL RAM
NVIDIA 210 1GB DDR3
AMD Athalon 64 x2 3800+
It's pretty obvious that the CPU is the issue here, I had an 8600gt in there for about a day, and I'm not noticing any performance increase at all from the 8600 to the 210. Is it just because the card isn't really an upgrade? The 8600 only had 512 mb of RAM.
The game in particular in question is about 5-6 years old and I just can't believe that this PC isn't capable of that. However every time I pop out of the game to check my CPU is running at 100% and i'm still floating around with about a gig and a half of ram left over.
I guess my question here is, would I get enough of a performance increase from buying another AM2 processor (i've priced one around 60$) or should I just wait and buck up 100$ or so for a new mobo and get something AM3 range?
Thanks guys
DB