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Technical Help & Discussion => Software, Hardware & Website Recommendations => Topic started by: Scotty_CFC on January 19, 2008, 20:52

Title: PC Upgrade
Post by: Scotty_CFC on January 19, 2008, 20:52

Hi all,

I have recently built a PC from scratch, however, when it comes to playing games, it isnt performing the way I expected. It is only slightly faster than what my old PC performed. I used to have:
XP Home
P4 2.4GHz
PC2100 400MHz 1GB RAM
AGP ATI 9600 512mb card
2 x 40GB HDD (IDE)

The PC I have now is:
XP Home
Core 2 Duo 2.66MHz E6750
PC6400 800MHz 2GB RAM
PCI-E x 16 ATI X1550 512mb card
1 x 300GB HDD NCQ (SATAII)

I am guessing it might be the graphics card, I am thinking of getting an Nvidia 8800 GT. But before spending £150 - £200, I want your opinion. I have over clocked my current graphics card with minor results. Any tips?

Many thanks for any suggestions

Scott

Title: Re: PC Upgrade
Post by: Sandra on January 20, 2008, 01:03

Your old pc wasnt exactly a slow specification.
The main thing that you have imrpoved is the capacity to run multiple applications rather than improve the speed of a single one, I would have thought.

If overclocking your current GFX card has improved things then an 8800GT would probably improve it more but I am unsure by how much.