CPU/Video Card Bottle neck

HELP_ME · 01-30-2008, 05:00 PM

i just recently bought myself a 2600xt 512mb card as an upgrade from a 128 mb x300. i have 2 gigs of ram, and pentium (D) 820, 2.8ghz. the thing is i feel like my ingame fps is much lower than it should be and would like to know if it is being bottle necked by something. like, if i join a css server, depending on the map, i can get anywhere from 40-120 fps. the wierd thing is that changing video settings seems to do very little to change the fps, infact it seems if it put it on highest settings i get more fps. and if i go from 800x600 to 1152x864 my fps stays the same. also my problem isnt really just playing normally in game it comes when i go to record a demo of my playing (required in competitive play). then it drops to unplayable fps such as 20's and 30's.

andy_mitch92 · 01-30-2008, 05:14 PM

i may be having the same problem with my 8800GT and my pentium 4...

HELP_ME · 01-31-2008, 12:46 AM

what prob are you having?

**oscaryu1** · 01-31-2008, 02:41 AM

Andy - 100% sure it's bottlenecking.

HELP_ME - I doubt it's really bottlenecking. The 2600 was never a great card. You would've been better off with a HD3850 or HD3870.

HELP_ME · 01-31-2008, 02:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by oscaryu1

Andy - 100% sure it's bottlenecking.

HELP_ME - I doubt it's really bottlenecking. The 2600 was never a great card. You would've been better off with a HD3850 or HD3870.

ya but i know serveral people with the same card who get twice my fps at least

**oscaryu1** · 01-31-2008, 02:50 AM

What OS are you running?

HELP_ME · 01-31-2008, 02:52 AM

xp

Dr Donut · 01-31-2008, 03:58 AM

a problem could be if your using pci-e that the board only does 4x recently had this problem with mine had to replace mobo im sure that would apply to agp too

Kesava · 01-31-2008, 04:15 AM

yeah i have ordered my mew mobo cos my old one only supports x4.

Dr Donut... how much better was your performance one you had the new mobo?

01-30-2008, 05:00 PM	#1 (permalink)
HELP_ME Gold Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: ottawa, canada Posts: 395	CPU/Video Card Bottle neck i just recently bought myself a 2600xt 512mb card as an upgrade from a 128 mb x300. i have 2 gigs of ram, and pentium (D) 820, 2.8ghz. the thing is i feel like my ingame fps is much lower than it should be and would like to know if it is being bottle necked by something. like, if i join a css server, depending on the map, i can get anywhere from 40-120 fps. the wierd thing is that changing video settings seems to do very little to change the fps, infact it seems if it put it on highest settings i get more fps. and if i go from 800x600 to 1152x864 my fps stays the same. also my problem isnt really just playing normally in game it comes when i go to record a demo of my playing (required in competitive play). then it drops to unplayable fps such as 20's and 30's.

01-30-2008, 05:14 PM	#2 (permalink)
andy_mitch92 Silver Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Great Bend, Ks Posts: 171	i may be having the same problem with my 8800GT and my pentium 4... __________________ CPU Intel Q9450 RAM 4GB G.skill 1000Mhz @ 800Mhz 3-4-4-12 T1 MOTHERBOARD Asus Maximus Formula GFX Evga 8800GT "There is no mechanical problem too tough that cannot be fixed by brute strength and ignorance."

01-31-2008, 02:41 AM	#4 (permalink)
oscaryu1 Moderator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Age: 13 Posts: 10,311	Andy - 100% sure it's bottlenecking. HELP_ME - I doubt it's really bottlenecking. The 2600 was never a great card. You would've been better off with a HD3850 or HD3870. __________________ Core 2 Duo E2140 1.6GHz @ 3.04GHz GA-P31-DS3L pqi Turbo CL4 DDR2-800 2GB Sapphire HD3850 256MB Sony Writemaster DVD Burner EIDE Seagate Barracuda 80GB 7200.9 8MB SATII

01-31-2008, 02:50 AM	#6 (permalink)
oscaryu1 Moderator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Age: 13 Posts: 10,311	What OS are you running? __________________ Core 2 Duo E2140 1.6GHz @ 3.04GHz GA-P31-DS3L pqi Turbo CL4 DDR2-800 2GB Sapphire HD3850 256MB Sony Writemaster DVD Burner EIDE Seagate Barracuda 80GB 7200.9 8MB SATII

01-31-2008, 04:15 AM	#9 (permalink)
Kesava Diamond Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Australia Age: 17 Posts: 3,379	yeah i have ordered my mew mobo cos my old one only supports x4. Dr Donut... how much better was your performance one you had the new mobo? __________________ Following my advice will harm your computer. Cpu:Intel Q6600 2.4Ghz @ 3.4Ghz Hsf:Zalman CNPS 9700 LED Ram:Generic 2 Gb 800 Mhz Gpu:XFX 8800 GT 512mb @ 700/1750/2000 Mobo:Gigabyte P31-DS3L OS:OSX 10.5.2 3dMark06:13518 MSN=kesava8@hotmail.com AIM=kesava8

01-31-2008, 12:46 AM	#3 (permalink)
HELP_ME Gold Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: ottawa, canada Posts: 395	what prob are you having?

01-31-2008, 02:52 AM	#7 (permalink)
HELP_ME Gold Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: ottawa, canada Posts: 395	xp

01-31-2008, 03:58 AM	#8 (permalink)
Dr Donut New Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 23	a problem could be if your using pci-e that the board only does 4x recently had this problem with mine had to replace mobo im sure that would apply to agp too

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