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Less-Than-Shite Performance
jjmusicnotes:
Don't worry about the mobo man, to get the model number you'd have to take it out of the case and look on the reverse side.
If your bro's comp has a PCI-E x16 slot, then you're welcome to try it. If you get ~50fps or less in his rig, then that can be proof-positive of a CPU bottleneck.
--- Quote from: Rodney 1.666 on September 22, 2010, 10:22:25 pm ---
If it's the CPU (or anything that isn't the card, for that matter), then won't I still have the same problem but even worse?
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Not necessarily. If you went with an older card like the ones mentioned above, (maybe even a 250 or ATI HD 3XXX series,) then the graphics technology will be closer to something that the CPU would adequately support, and may in fact give you better FPS than your current 460.
KM suggested a card that would be great for your rig - I believe it was a GTX 9800. That would offer you more performance than you current card, it would be more compatible with your system, and you wouldn't have to do any major / costly over-hauling.
Rodney 1.666:
--- Quote from: jjmusicnotes on September 22, 2010, 11:51:33 pm ---I believe it was a GTX 9800. That would offer you more performance than you current card, it would be more compatible with your system, and you wouldn't have to do any major / costly over-hauling.
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What kind of frames do you predict with the 9800 or 250?
For the to-do list:
I've been Googling diagnostics tools, but I don't even know where to begin... any thoughts?
When all options excluding hardware changes have been exhausted, I've been thinking of formatting. (Win7 takes like 10 minutes anyway.) I'm sure it won't help, but it couldn't hurt.
Kinky:
I have a 9800GTX+ superclock (old new but top of the line about 3 years ago). I get 300FPS looking at a wall and 100FPS average on TF2.
major:
I use to have a 2.8GHZ AMD Dual core with a 8800gt and I got max settings.. of course this was the days of beta1...but still.
My 3.2GHZ Q6600 (one of the first Quad cores) with my old ATI 4870 was maxed out @1920x1080...
So you should be getting top end performance. I didnt remember if you said(and to lazy to read again). But I'd wipe windows and start from scratch. then you can have clean drivers and be a nice clean slate to test with.
I still have that Dual Core and old 4870.. maybe if I get the time ill boot it up and load GE:S on it and see how bad the bottleneck is.
Rodney 1.666:
--- Quote from: major on September 23, 2010, 04:28:04 am ---So you should be getting top end performance. I didnt remember if you said(and to lazy to read again). But I'd wipe windows and start from scratch. then you can have clean drivers and be a nice clean slate to test with.
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I'm going to next week. (next week being decided just now)
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