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E4500CPU+MSI 1G OC GTX 460 Worst combo ever

nJoyo

nJoyo

nJoyo

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I'm regretting that i actually bought this card, this card doesn't even play bfbc2 perfectly...so much lagg ridiculously at 1680X1050 Res. It's not a very good.

Any tips on whats wrong with it?
 
The gfx card should be capable of performing better at that resolution, therefore I'd suspect your CPU is a bottleneck for the performance of the entire system. If you have aftermarket cooling and a half decent board, you should try to overclock the CPU and see if the game improves too. That CPU meets the minimum requirements for BFBC2, but doesn't come near the recommended ones.

I also think you need to be more specific about the performance. Download FRAPS and measure your FPS over a typical gaming session and tell us what it is.
 
BFBC2 is incredibly CPU intensive and is known to perform best with a quad core. A decent dual core is fine if it's clocked reasonably high, so I suspect the problem is with your cpu - 2ghz with 2mb L2 is really not going to do this card justice. Is your cpu stock? what's the rest of your spec? What power supply unit do you have?
 
I know some with dual cores will say BC2 runs fine with a dual core, but in my opinion it doesn't.

I have a amd 550, a dual core which can unlock to a quad. As a dual BC2 chugs away, feeling really sluggish, with GPU usage around the 30-40% mark. As a quad I get double the FPS and feeling smooth, GPU usage around 80-100% Overclocking your current CPU to 3 GHZ will help, but you will still be limited by your CPU.
 
Overclock the CPU. Should go to 3GHZ or so, unless you're unlucky.

I'd also say a better option still would be a Q6600 (or what ever quad you want to go for) and clocking that.
 
Huge CPU bottleneck with that CPU at stock speed. As other suggested, either overclock the E4500 (it will reduce the bottleneck, but not remove it as it still won't be using the GTX460 to its full capability), or upgrade your CPU a Quad such as Q6600.
 
Yup it's your CPU holding it back.

And as mentioned, BFBC2 luuuuuurves the quads.
 
I'm currently running on stock speeds, with the CPU. and a stock cooling fan. I'm using a ocz stealthxstream 600w psu, so yeah.
 
I've looked into the link which was given by one of the members, however it is quite difficult and in result i may reck my CPU, which i do not want. As i want to use this CPU for at least few more years.
 
Don't mean to be rude fella, but even on the STOCK (i.e the retail supplied cooler from Intel), you can safely overclock that chip (dependent on your motherboard supporting overclocking).

You do not need to buy another CPU bud, C2D's are very safe to overclock, and frankly it's so darn simple it's nuts.

My e4300 at stock 1.8Ghz REALLY sucks with BFBC2 with a GTX 260. If I overclock the CPU to 3GHZ I can comfortably play it at 1920*1200. At 1.8Ghz it REALLY lagged and was horrendous to play the game.

If you know nothing of overclocking you really need to start right NOW, otherwise you are just throwing money away pointlessly.

Your setup only sucks because you can't see past stock settings. The card will EASILY play this game, if you don't get that by this point, you really need to go buy an xbox or something.

Seriously.. if you need help, anyone on here will help you achieve the goal :-)
 
nJoyo said:
I've looked into the link which was given by one of the members, however it is quite difficult and in result i may reck my CPU, which i do not want. As i want to use this CPU for at least few more years.
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To be honest if you want to get the best out of your new 460GTX WITH BC2 then a new CPU would be the solution, even so it would benefit a lot with a good overclock. For most other games your CPU is just fine if it is overclocked. I previously had a e4300 and it overclocked to 3GHZ with no problem at all, and very low volts, cant remember if I needed to increase it.

You will be hard pressed to kill a CPU unless you up the voltage too much, or if you have inadequate cooling.
 
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