Overclocking help

-Shockwave- · October 10th, 2008, 06:33 AM

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?

lumo · October 10th, 2008, 07:21 AM

depends on what you want to do with the system.
play (GPU) or do stuff like rendering (CPU - probably gpu soon with cuda or similar)?

-Shockwave- · October 10th, 2008, 07:47 AM

Getting the most out of the system in PC games.

lumo · October 10th, 2008, 09:17 AM

your board can handle 2gb of ram...
G.Skill DIMM Kit 2GB PC-3200 DDR CL3-4-4-8 (DDR-400) (F1-3200PHU2-2GBNT)

http://geizhals.at/eu/a187701.html
~40 euro

the maximum you can put in for a normal price at GPU is
Sapphire Radeon HD 3850, 512MB GDDR3, 2x DVI, TV-out, AGP, bulk/lite retail (11124-00-10/-20)

http://geizhals.at/eu/a305727.html
~90 euro

guess thats the max you can get to get the thingy work better in games

hope this helps a bit

IModAmd · October 10th, 2008, 09:11 PM

You can wait too for see if AMD/ATI parteners will release an AGP version of the 4xxx series

lumo · October 10th, 2008, 10:13 PM

i doubt that

and if it will cost a lot - i would not put too much money in an old system

-Shockwave- · October 12th, 2008, 01:15 AM

Not sure how you guys missed what I was actually asking... I know what I can upgrade to already. Reread.

lumo · October 12th, 2008, 11:58 AM

Quote:

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?

as games go on ram AND gpu upgrading gpu will improve your system but you will still have lag (when loading new content of the maps)
when you buy new ram, you wont get far, as your gpu is far behind.

note: i am not sure on efficience of the amd (2.2ghz seem ok, but if it performs less than a current 2.0 amd/intel it wont let you game much either. - but i guess your cpu is the weakesz problem)

IModAmd · October 12th, 2008, 04:40 PM

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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?

In your case... GPU and Memory are the bottleneck

IModIntel · October 12th, 2008, 04:51 PM

The CPU also. MY dad has the same on his system and constantly gets lags at whatever settings in recent games (despite his ATi X1950Pro PCI-E), plus he's got 3gb of memory in dual channel so that's not a problem... Board is VIA K8T890-based ASUS A8V-E SE.