I have a rig equipped with an x1950xt. Am I having any bottlenecks in my computer? Because I've been hearing thousands of different answers from my fellow gamer friends that I don't know what to believe! :/
CPU: Athlon64 3200+ (s939)
RAM: Corsair 1GB (512mb*2)
Mobo: ASROCK 939SLI-eSATA2
HDD: 200gb WDC+ 160gb Samsung
Audio: SB Audigy 4
Thanks!
2007-07-03 13:10:23 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Currently OCed to 2.13ghz, but it went up to 2.2ghz. When i exceed the 2.13 threshold games start to be a bit jerky and i experience a lot of frame loss [seen especially in cod2]
I play @ 1280*1024 when possible
I actually HATE my ASROCK mobo...my pc technician installed it and i was too occupied with exams to notice :/
2007-07-04 02:49:38 · update #1
It really depends what resolutions your playing at. At lower resolution your more likely to be cpu limited and at higher resolutions your more likely to be gpu limited. It also depends on the games your playing, while a majority of the time your gaming will be limited by your graphics card, there are some games that put alot of stress on the cpu such as Supreme Comander. In your situation its not unreasonable to think that your single core 3200+ and 1gig of ram could be bottlenecking your system. One way you could test this is overclocking, the 3200+ should be able to hit 2.4ghz, see wht effect the extra 400mhz has on your fps. If your framerates stay the same you know your cpu isnt a bottleneck if the framerates increase you know your cpu is a bottleneck. If your cpu is a bottleneck I would upgrade to a dual core, you can still find s939 on newegg, also I would upgrade to 2gigs of ram, newer games definitly benfit from the extra ram. Good luck
2007-07-03 13:30:53 · answer #1 · answered by frankie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
RAM is a big bottleneck here. RAM up!
CPU is a wee bit on the slow side and not really familiar or can't find info on the ASROCK 939SLI-eSATA2. If you can at least double the processing speed on that board with a better processor, you've definitely got a bottleneck there too.
2007-07-03 20:32:11 · answer #2 · answered by gil.baca 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try benchmarking w/ 3D Mark 05 or 06. Compare with benchmarks obtained by reviewers of X1950XT. Also try overclocking your processor to around 2.4Ghz. If you get very significant gain in 3D benchmark, then your processor (in stock condition) is bottlenecking the card's performance. Get a faster processor (3800+?) and overclock it some more.
2007-07-04 01:10:04 · answer #3 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your cpu is kind of slow. That would be the only problem I see.
2007-07-03 20:21:47 · answer #4 · answered by HighlyMad 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋