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October 12th, 2008, 06:16 PM
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#11 | | Professional Member
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Originally Posted by IModAmd  In your case... GPU and Memory are the bottleneck | Quote:
Originally Posted by IModIntel The CPU also. | Sumary:
your system IS a BOTTLENECK. sorry | 
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October 12th, 2008, 10:02 PM
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#12 | | Golden Oldie Member
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| | M/B: MSI P35 Neo (Rev. 1) |
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Originally Posted by -Shockwave- I have overclocked a few cards in my day, but I still need some help and advice on a few issues and how far I can go with my current card.
As you can see in my posts, I have an ATI HD 2400 PRO 512 MB AGP card. the card stock is running at 525 core and 400 ddr2 at 800mhz. So, 525mhz core and 800mhz memory. The card is a very weak card, I know. It only has a 64bit bus width and about 7GB bandwidth. The rest of my PC specs are a single core AMD Athlon 64 @ 2.2Ghz and 1GB of Kingston Ram. Seening as my video card is pretty weak and my processor is pretty weak compared to todays standards, what is my bottelneck in this case?
What I want to know is what is more important here, my total memory in my two 512 sticks that is my 1gb of ram or the fact that my card is only a 64bit bus width or is it the limited 7gb bandwidth the video card has? | Yes, the system overall is a pretty weak system if you're wanting to play the latest games.
You should install the maximum amount of RAM you can and make sure it's set to perform at its lowest CAS latency settings.
Beyond that, the only other thing I could come up with is to set the games to run in Compatibility mode. Forcing the games to run, say in Win 98 Mode will force them to run in DX8 mode which may reduce the demand on the game. There won't be as much 'eye candy' but, the game may perform better.
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October 13th, 2008, 11:49 PM
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#13 | | Loyal DAAMIT User
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How 'bout sticking to pre-2007 games for now? It's a much simpler solution! 
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October 14th, 2008, 08:35 PM
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#14 | | Golden Member
| | M/B: GA-X48-DS5 + Asus P5E |
| | PSU: OCZ 700W + HIPER 580W |
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Originally Posted by Dyre Straits Yes, the system overall is a pretty weak system if you're wanting to play the latest games.
| heh would not agree with you
runing call of duty 4 with 1024x768x85 on Barton 3200+ 512ddr 400 and 6600GT lol i even use it as server for hosting games
he cant run crysis but he is not missing much
anyway dude by overclocking your machine you will not get much
mostly because of that your pc is out of date so any game will make glitches under run lol
i would recomend you to save cash and w8 for price drop down on core duo PCs | |
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October 14th, 2008, 09:23 PM
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#15 | | Professional Member
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| | RAM: 2gb Corsair XMS DDR400 |
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i think the problem here is the gfx card.
you should have went with the 3850 if you are stuck on agp.
otherwise you don't stand a chance... | |
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October 15th, 2008, 04:26 PM
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#16 | | Loyal DAAMIT User
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Originally Posted by DOOMJESUS i think the problem here is the gfx card.
you should have went with the 3850 if you are stuck on agp.
otherwise you don't stand a chance... | But it would have been such a waste of money, especially when looking at the other specs in the system.
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October 15th, 2008, 07:17 PM
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#17 | | Professional Member
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Originally Posted by IModIntel But it would have been such a waste of money, especially when looking at the other specs in the system. | yeah, it's a pretty bleak situation in general...
but that might have been the one chance to make it do, (something)...  | |
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October 15th, 2008, 08:37 PM
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#18 | | Loyal DAAMIT User
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It is very easy to configure a system that beats this computer in every respect for a pretty small amount of money.
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October 16th, 2008, 12:31 AM
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#19 | | Advanced Newbie
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I was looking at "attempting" to find a faster processor for this 754 socket Mobo, but it seems there is only a processor clocked at around 200 more Mhz than this one, and I can get that already by OCing this one. It would have been nice to be able to get to 3.0Ghz with that as it's stock speed, and then go from there.
Call me silly, but I've had this system for many many years now and I am just not ready to let it go yet. 
Last edited by -Shockwave-; October 16th, 2008 at 12:35 AM.
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October 16th, 2008, 04:35 PM
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#20 | | Loyal DAAMIT User
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Originally Posted by -Shockwave- I was looking at "attempting" to find a faster processor for this 754 socket Mobo, but it seems there is only a processor clocked at around 200 more Mhz than this one, and I can get that already by OCing this one. It would have been nice to be able to get to 3.0Ghz with that as it's stock speed, and then go from there.
Call me silly, but I've had this system for many many years now and I am just not ready to let it go yet. | Nah, it's good too have some nostagia! I'm still looking around for a old AMD K6 machine I could rework and give to my Mom
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