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Why are all my games lagging?

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Hard to tell from the minimal info you've given but I'd hazard a guess that the CPU is holding you back.
Of course you could have a ton of crud on your hard drive or way too many background programs running or any of several dozen other different scenarios.

sometimes power supplys can be an issue if there isnt enough power to the unit. what is your PSU's wattage. and it is possible that pentium is bottlnecking dpending on what game you are playing. more details please certain games only need 2 cores where as some need 3 or 4 like battlefield 3 to run smoothly. since yours is a dual core thay may be problem. plus its a low clocked for todays standards. There are some basic fixes as opposed to upgrading hardware. close all background programs. its possible you have a virus. simple things you wouldnt even think of. like maybe your hDD is crammed and has a slow RPM. tell us your full system specs please
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theitaliansico said:
sometimes power supplys can be an issue if there isnt enough power to the unit. what is your PSU's wattage. and it is possible that pentium is bottlnecking dpending on what game you are playing. more details please certain games only need 2 cores where as some need 3 or 4 like battlefield 3 to run smoothly. since yours is a dual core thay may be problem. plus its a low clocked for todays standards. There are some basic fixes as opposed to upgrading hardware. close all background programs. its possible you have a virus. simple things you wouldnt even think of. like maybe your hDD is crammed and has a slow RPM. tell us your full system specs please


My Pentium Dual Core is E5300 2.66 ghz
My PSU is 350W

So which should I upgrade first?

scienceisfun91 said:
My Pentium Dual Core is E5300 2.66 ghz
My PSU is 350W

So which should I upgrade first?


Does your power supply even have the 6pin power connectors for the video card? Wouldn't surprise me if your card isn't getting enough power so it's remaining in 2d clock speeds, that would cause severe lag in just about any game. 350W isn't enough for a card like that, especially if its a cheap low end no name power supply.

He's probably using the floppy-drive to video card adapter.

Yep, need a CPU+power supply upgrade as a minimum.

EDIT: You'll get lots of opinions here, but I'd probably get at least a core2quad if your mobo supports it. For a power supply, get a 650W+ model by someone name brand. Like Antec, Corsair, OCZ, XFX, etc. You should get at least a 3-year warranty on any decent model. Upgrade the power supply first if you can only afford one right now. If you upgrade your CPU first, you could smoke your old power supply and/or your PC with that low wattage... :) 

Krusher said:
He's probably using the floppy-drive to video card adapter.

Yep, need a CPU+power supply upgrade as a minimum.

EDIT: You'll get lots of opinions here, but I'd probably get at least a core2quad if your mobo supports it. For a power supply, get a 650W+ model by someone name brand. Like Antec, Corsair, OCZ, XFX, etc. You should get at least a 3-year warranty on any decent model. Upgrade the power supply first if you can only afford one right now. If you upgrade your CPU first, you could smoke your old power supply and/or your PC with that low wattage... :) 


My PSU has a 6pin connector

loneninja said:
Does your power supply even have the 6pin power connectors for the video card? Wouldn't surprise me if your card isn't getting enough power so it's remaining in 2d clock speeds, that would cause severe lag in just about any game. 350W isn't enough for a card like that, especially if its a cheap low end no name power supply.


It has 6 pin connectors

scienceisfun91 said:
It has 6 pin connectors


Even if it has them it doesn't mean it puts out enough power, a 350w (even the very good ones) can only put out say 250-275watts max (and you should never ever run a psu near the limit) the 6850 alone uses 130watts, and your cpu uses 75-125w
hard drives are about 5-10 watts each as are dvd drives, and fans are about 1-5 watts each

so basically, just get a new psu.
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