I got a Dell Dimension 4400 about 6 months ago and upgraded several thing to it to make it decent enough to play some online games. Wih one of the games I have, I receive 100 frames per second until lots of things appear on the screen , the it will quickly drop to the 30s. This makes enjoying the game much more aggrivating to play. I can't figure out what would cause this problem but I'm thinking it's my processor. Here's the specs:
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz
768 MB Ram
20 Gig Hard Drive
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
Monitor: Plug in and Play CTX Color Monitor
Since I believe the problem lies with my processor, I looked up a replacement one at dell and all I came up with was what seems like a slightly better one(could be wrong) for an enormous price($319).
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=3K363
I'd like to know what hardware is causing this problem and what I can do to fix it.
2007-03-06 15:26:04 · 3 answers · asked by Squawkers 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
The Geforce FX 5500 video card I have is an AGP.
2007-03-06 15:29:00 · update #1
The two games I nromally play are Counter-Strike and Guild Wars.
2007-03-06 15:53:06 · update #2
Really, we would need to know what game you are playing that this happens on. Then we would have a better idea of the system requirements of that particular game.
It is completely normal for your framerate to drop when there are more "things" on the screen.
More data to process = lower framerate.
I will agree that most likely it is the CPU that is the bottleneck, though the FX 5000 series of video cards were a very weak series.
I would not spend more than 40 bucks on that processor. A 1.8Ghz P4 would not even give you a real noticable increase in performance.
Here is a link to a listing for that processor on ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-Pentium-4-1-8-GHz-400-FSB-Socket-c478-CPU-SL5VJ_W0QQitemZ200084404329QQcategoryZ14293QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
2007-03-06 15:39:17 · answer #1 · answered by Bjorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-05 08:44:31 · answer #2 · answered by haltom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes its probably your processor, turn down all your graphic setting to get better fps, other than that get a new computer
2007-03-06 15:29:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋