Biggest bottleneck?

DarkEgo · Aug 14, 2008

ROFL, that my 80 GB hard drive I had laying around.

Lionheart · Aug 14, 2008

ok enough about hte botle neck, where the hell did you get your desktop background from, damn shes nice!

Zax85 · Aug 14, 2008

DarkEgo said:
What do you think the biggest bottleneck in my gaming system is?
Thank you,
DarkEgo

Your CPU would be my answer... My performance with the 3870x2 went sky-high when i bought the E8400 instead of my old E7200 (double the cache).

My advice: Get a E8400 or E8500...

Ohh... and get some extra ram. (2gig or something like that)

irongun324 · Aug 14, 2008

CHAOS_KILLA said:
ok enough about hte botle neck, where the hell did you get your desktop background from, damn shes nice!

Note the web address in the picture?

theeldest · Aug 14, 2008

I still say the HDD. It's not that the drive you have is slow, just that it's the slowest component in your system.

J-Man · Aug 14, 2008

Just the IDE HDD in my opinion. Everything else seems fine.

oli_ramsay · Aug 15, 2008

If you're after another 2GB of tracers then check this thread out

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=67843

PP Mguire · Aug 15, 2008

Im using 3gig of ram with x86 Vista Ultimate and im using no pagefile. The only thing ive found that requires a pagefile is Guitar Hero3 on PC. Other than that pagefile FTL.

Honestly i think your system is fine :/ If your still running XP and you have no desire to run DX10/Vista then no need getting 4gig.

trt740 · Aug 15, 2008

DarkEgo said:
What do you think the biggest bottleneck in my gaming system is?
Thank you,
DarkEgo

looks to me like a great budget gaming system, you could add a bit more ram but it looks fine to me at 4.0ghz that e7200 is not bottle necking your gpu.

Zax85 · Aug 15, 2008

trt740 said:
looks to me like a great budget gaming system, you could add a bit more ram but it looks fine to me at 4.0ghz that e7200 is not bottle necking your gpu.

It did with my 3870x2... :wtf:

DarkEgo · Aug 18, 2008

I backed down my OC it is at 3.8 now.

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