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Ok heres my setup... what is bottlenecking my system?

5400 udma 66 hd
voodoo 3 3000 pci
256 megs pc-100 ram
celeron 500 100 mhz fsb

I mostly play counterstrike and I have a t-1 connection, so I know thats not the problem. I can't get more than 20 fps even in the fastest servers... I would think I could get better. My motrherboard doesn't support any faster processors, and it only supports max. 256 megs ram pc-100.

Radeon 32 mb PCI video cards are cheap right now? Is my video card the bottleneck? Please help.
Thanks in advance.

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Everything on your system is runnign at the same level of performance-everything is a bottleneck. You could replace everything, or buy a new one.

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Reply to Crashman

I kind of agree with Crashman, it is kind of dated, but you would notice a graphics card upgrade, I assume you don't have AGP?
that's gonna make it tougher to get more out of it.
there is a Geforce 2MX PCI as well, I don't know how good it is.
You can get better video performance out of it, but not much better, very playable, but not awesome...

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Independant thought is good.
It won't hurt for long.

Reply to 74merc

I must say you surprise me. I have a PII 350Mhz with 192MB and a Diamond Viper 550(TNT) 16MB video card and i get 52 fps. Maybe de Celeron processor?

Oh, an I'm sure of something, it's absolutly not your internet connection, it have nothing to do with your frame rate. The only thing it can change is your latency (lag). You can have 60fps but with a latency of 400ms it's not playable.<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by WhatShouldIBuy on 06/09/01 01:48 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

Reply to Anonymous

first of all your hd is NOT a bottleneck when playing 3D games, so I would keep it if you have enough space.
Your have more than enough ram aswell.

If I were you I would buy a new cpu + motherboard and a new 3D-card.

If you dont mind playing cs in 800*600*16 you will be able to keep the 3D card.
I would surggest that you buy a Athlon 900 cpu and a cheap kt133(A) motherboard. This way you can keep your ram if you whant. The Athlon is clearly the best counterstrike cpu out there. When I went from k62 400 to Duron 800 my framerates in cs trippled.
I have 256 mb ram, duron 800, geforce 2 MX and play cs in 1024*768*32. My maximum framerates are 100 (the cs-engines maximum) and I never get much under 60 even in delta-assult.

By the way remember to choose low quality sound - high quality uses to much cpu power.

Reply to Anonymous

What is connecting your machine to the T1 connection you have, is it all hardware and resource friendly or is it a situation similar to a low quality software modem. Your system seem ok for playing cs in single player and I assume it is, so although you have a t1 connection I would start investigating what could be causing it not to work. I’m no expert at all but feel this is a good stab at it, if anyone knows better or different please let me know and we can all benefit

out of ideas, back soon !

Reply to Tom_Smart

Alright well I think I found it...
I went out and bought a Radeon 32 meg and now I get no less than 70 fps in 1024 res.

Thnx for your help.

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