Tom's Hardware: Topic Procedure for upgrading CPU?
Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions.
Sign up now! Its free!
My specs:
Opteron 140
ASUS SK8V Mobo (940 socket)
1GIG Corsair XMS Registered RAM
BFG Geforce FX 6800 OC
So I'm trying to figure out how to improve my performance on my gaming system with Star Wars Galaxies...which is equally dependant on GPU, CPU, and RAM...
Upgraded my Vid card from a Geforce FX5600 256 to a BFG Geforce 6800 OC, and I'm getting 8500 on 3Dmark, but the game doesnt seem to be improving much. My frame rate is still 8-15FPS, and jumps wildly, goes down in crowded cities etc...
So I ordered an Opteron 148 chip to see if that makes any improvement, but would like to know if I will need to reformatt my OS or anything serious. Ideally, I'd just like to swap out the CPU's to check for an improvement, and if I don't see one, swap the Opteron 140 back in and return the 148...
So can I just swap the CPU's without doing anything else? Just pull one out and plop in the new one and restart? Tell me its that simple 
Please mind
You are about to answer a thread that has been inactive for more than 6 months.
If you still wish to proceed, please ensure that your posting is original and does not duplicate or overlap any prior responses to this thread.
Sponsored links
Ad
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them
- 01:00 bdaonion won the Freshman badge
- 01:00 perzy won the Freshman badge
- 01:00 Stewysb119 won the Freshman badge
- 01:00 dubesinhower won the Freshman badge
- 01:00 dubesinhower won the Spy badge
- 01:00 DustenH won the Uniformed badge
- 01:00 bew1075k won the Uniformed badge
- 01:00 Parasitic won the Uniformed badge
- 01:00 X3no won the Uniformed badge
- 01:00 Siq won the Uniformed badge