Am I CPU or GFX limited?

Jimbo Mahoney said:
Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz (Prescott)
1GB DDR
Geforce 6200 (PCI)

There is only one PCI slot for expansion (no AGP or PCI-E).
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Depends on it's usage tbh.. That spec is going to be limited on both counts for games. The lack of either a AGP or PCie expansion port limits the bandwidth. That's said, the CPU could work well in a system with a dedicated graphics port.
 
I'd say the graphics card is holding you back but having no agp or pci-express slot makes that hard to rectify :/

Is it a pre-built machine you've got, like a Dell or HP or whatever?
 
are you planning

are you planning an upgrade ? If yes what sort of budget do you have ?

I would suggest first stop is getting a new motherboard and GFX card.

You don't mention if this prescott P4 is a socket 478 or a LGA 775. This will make a difference as the new board you buy should be a LGA775, and if yours is a 478 then you will need to fork for a new CPU and RAM too (assuming your RAM is not DDR2).
 
ih8modem said:
are you planning an upgrade ? If yes what sort of budget do you have ?

I would suggest first stop is getting a new motherboard and GFX card.

You don't mention if this prescott P4 is a socket 478 or a LGA 775. This will make a difference as the new board you buy should be a LGA775, and if yours is a 478 then you will need to fork for a new CPU and RAM too (assuming your RAM is not DDR2).
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He could always get a good old 478 motherboard with AGP X8 and DDR RAM. Asus did a good one didn't they? It'd be quite cheap now and he could overclock his cpu a little and through in a X1950 Pro AGP card. That would do for Warcraft anyway ;)
 
Darg said:
He could always get a good old 478 motherboard with AGP X8 and DDR RAM. Asus did a good one didn't they? It'd be quite cheap now and he could overclock his cpu a little and through in a X1950 Pro AGP card. That would do for Warcraft anyway ;)
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indeed he could, I used to run WoW on my Northwood 2.8HT, ASUS P4P800SE with 1GB RAM and a AGP 6600GT 128MB.
 
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