bottleneck of my ancient pc

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BillaBong

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Hey there guys,

I'm using a very old Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo 600. I do not have enough money to buy a completely new computer so I was wondering where the bottleneck is in my computer.
I mainly use my computer for playing games like Counter Strike: Source and some GTA games. I would like to play games smoother. I'm already surprised by the performance of this computer though.

Specs:
Motherboard - can't find it anywhere - EDIT: FUJITSU SIEMENS D1875
CPU - Intel Pentium 4 3.20 GHz
Ram memory - 2GB Kingston
Graphics card - Sapphire Radeon 9600 Atlantis
Soundcard - Sound Blaster Audigy 2
Harddrive - samsung sp1604n 160GB

When I get to know which motherboard I have I will tell.
Can anyone help me finding the bottleneck in my set-up?
Thanks in advance.

BillaBong

ps: I'm Dutch, forgive me for my English please ;)
 
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to get your motherboard details try a program called SPECCY or PC WIZARD 2009 they will tell you, as far as your system your cpu looks ok and hard drive a bit small but fine, id say think about either upgrading your memory and or graphics card, also have you tried either a clean windows install or giving your system a good clean out and defrag.
 
I don't think upgrading his RAM will do anything for a performance boost. The biggest bottleneck is his processor in my opinion. To upgrade you are going to likely need a whole new motherboard, processor and RAM.

But as Jamesd1981 stated you can try to clean up your hard drive and defragment it. That might boost your system performance a little bit going this route. Download and try the program CCleaner:

http://www.ccleaner.com/
 
Thanks for your help. I have re-installed windows xp last summer, I defragment regurarly and I try to keep my harddrive clean.

I have been thinking about buying an AGP ATI HD 3650 iCooler II. Don't you think this will help?

JamesD1981, I have downloaded pc wizard 2009 and found that my motherboard is a FUJITSU SIEMENS D1875. Thanks for your advice. I'll edit my main post.
 
The video card is not your bottleneck. Buying a new video card won't increase the processing power of your system. The Pentium 4 (3.20 gigahertz) Processor is not good enough to run the software you want well.
 
Okey, then I guess I will just have to live with it and bank my money to eventually build an economic gaming machine :D.

Thank you all for your help. If there's anyone who thinks differently about where the bottleneck is, just say so ;).
 
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