Low FPS with my 8800 GTX...help plz.

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hey. i have a problem. I play call of duty. so i got a new graphics card for call of duty 4. so i got the 8800 GTX and i put the card in. Then i saw when i was playing that i was getting pretty low fps when i was playing multiplayer and also single player. i downloaded all the new drivers and everything. i asked sum people and some said that it was the processor and other people think it is the ram. but i dont know. plz help me out. thanx. =)

computer spec:

CPU: Athlon 64 3700+
Motherboard: Mach Speed MSNV-939 Motherboard - Socket 939, ATX, Audio, PCI Express, 10/100 Ethernet LAN, USB 2.0, Serial ATA
Ram: 1 GB
750W Coolmaster Power Supply
Graphics Card: XFX 8800 GTX
Monitor: hp pavilion mx70
Windows XP
 
From the specs you posted, I'd say the problem is a cross between the CPU, ram & motherboard. A single core processor @ 2.2Ghz with DDR266-400 (don't know which you're using) won't cut it for that game from what I know. Easiest upgrade in your situation would be an Athlon 64x2 processor but your motherboard is limiting you with the ram. Don't take my word as gold though cause I'm sure others around here would know more about this than me.
 
you can try turning down your game grafic setting.call of duty 4 ain't great need of CPU processing as I know.1GB ram is also enough for this game on xp.I dont think the memory frequency is the problem either.
 
The speed of the RAM isn't near as big a bottleneck as the capacity, double the memory and any RAM bottleneck will shrink down to just a couple FPS, which is all the faster DDR2 memory affords anyway. For this reason the motherboard isn't an obvious bottleneck either, except in the fact it's 939 and CPU options are moderately reduced. On the CPU itself, a stock 3700 San Diego will certainly prove a bottleneck in any multi-threaded app.. Overclocking can alleviate such issues, though it's still single core, and will suffer performance hits all the same.

All that said, what constitutes low performance? Even with that machine I can't see super bad performance hits, as evil said 1gb isn't THAT bad, in this game, and even a stock 3700 sandy delivers performance far above it's clock speed. Not to say the current bottleneck isn't huge, it is, to make things more equal, grab an extra gig of RAM, and upgrade to a competent 939 dual core..
 
Get this processor and some more RAM and you'll be set. Well said, hermeslyre. ;)

BTW, nice job on shoving a GTX into that system. I'm equally impressed with the PSU upgrade.

EDIT: If you get the processor, you'll need to reapply thermal paste. I like the MX-2. Since you can't OC with that mobo, you can continue to use the stock heatsink/fan.
 
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thanx for the help guys. i am going to buy a new processor and some more ram and see what that does. il reply back and tell u guys what happened. Thanx. =)
 
i have a question though. Will that processor help me out a lot or is it just going to do a little for me? cuz i am getting like 50-60fps. how much will this boost up my fps?
 
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