cpu bottleneck ??

[joedeath332]

Need some help to try to get my Bro's system working good with COD5 for the lowest budget as poss

Problem : everyone else has the new map loaded up and playing it for like near a min before he gets into the game,sometimes the game just goes black screen.

I got him to start task manager ,and the run the game,, it was using both cores ok,, and both were maxed to 100% but ram being used was low

I would have thought that the system would be up to the job. but maybee not ?

Motherboard : Asrock ALiveNF6G-GLAN
Cpu : amd athlon 64x2 4200+ socket am2(940)
Ram : pc2-5300 333mhz
Gfx card : powercolor ati hd 4870 1gb gddr5
Psu : Tagan 480W


Would a cpu upgrade fix the problem ..Is it a cse of CPU bottleneck ,, or should the above run it fine,,and is maybee some other issue ?

 

[joedeath332]

Try this

K got him to run the program,,and says just above min.

I think the PSU could well be the problem. When I got a 4870 I went from the same Tagan 480W to a 700W as I felt the 28A was not enough. Does he have problems with any other games?

Is there anyway he can test to see if the psu is under strain?

 

[joedeath332]

He ran another test program from a site that tested his pc stats to see if it could run cod5 , and here were the results

and here is a ss of his task manager after he closed down cod5. the cpu spike was when cod5 was running