So i have pentium d 805 2.66 ghz cpu and sparkle geforce gt 220 1gb ddr3 , 2gb ddr3 1333mhz ram (one pair) windows xp 32 bit, and i have a feeling that i got a bottleneck or something, for exaple gta 4 on lowest settings runs from about 10 to 45 fps ussually 15-30 ,but when i turn around it drops down instantly,btw changing resolution from 1280x800 to 800x640 almost doesnt make any change, crysis runs really not what i was expected for, about 9-30 fps ,and it runned before when i got old asus board with 2gb ram 512 533mhx x2 and one pair of 1gb 667 mhz , so i wondering what i can do to make my old rig more stable , tryed overclock gpu and cpu ,gpu easy goes from 500mhz core,1157 mhz shader,533mhz memory to -- 674mhz,1559mhz,589mhz or even more ,but cant see much diffrence in fps, and cpu from 2.66 to 2.8 or 2.99ghz ,wasnt able to notice better performance in gaming .... so upgrading cpu to e2140 would fix bottleneck ? or installing win 7 64 bit operating system ? or put onother 2gb ram stick ?
my point is to determine if my rig is bottlenecking,and if can i reduce bottleneck with easy and cheap solutions cuz i cant afford high end cpu or vga ...
my point is to determine if my rig is bottlenecking,and if can i reduce bottleneck with easy and cheap solutions cuz i cant afford high end cpu or vga ...