pc upgrade

terminator2k2 · 7 Oct 2010 at 14:55

hi there didnt know where to post this , as its a upgrade i just done and problems with games......any way here goes.......

my missus loves playing l4d 1 and 2....and she just keeps nicking my computer, which is a core i7 920 , 3 gig ddr3 , gtx280........

her computer was a sckt 478 p4 3 ghz with 2 gig ram and a x800xt, the fps on this machine made it unplayable...at around 20 fps if she was lucky lol....

i aquired a e4700 dual core i think it was 2.6ghz core 2 duo.....

so i purchased from overclockers:

Asus GeForce GTX 460 Direct CU TOP 768MB GDDR5

Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L Intel G41 (Socket 775) DDR2 microATX Motherboard

Kingston 2GB (1x2GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C6 800MHz Single Channel Memory Module

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler

i put this together and reinstalled windows and l4d and l4d2.....

and to my amazement this isnt much better.......still only getting 40 - 50 fps

and this with all settings on low in game.......getting a lot of slow down and sometimes down to the 20s fps....

i feel like ive waisted a couple hundred quid on upgrading this......

whats you good folks thoughts on this?

cheers chris

terminator2k2 · 7 Oct 2010 at 16:42

the resolution is 1360 x 760 so its not high really....

power supply is a tagen 580w (used to use this with my core i7 + gtx280)

terminator2k2 · 7 Oct 2010 at 17:02

just noticed in bios , cpu is @ 1.6ghz (200 x 8)

terminator2k2 · 7 Oct 2010 at 17:18

i thought main boards auto set up the cpu.....got me why this didnt.....wander what else could be off.......

terminator2k2 · 7 Oct 2010 at 21:22

thanks for the replies....made a great difference......i even over clocked it to 3.2ghz hehe......

running great so far......

terminator2k2 · 11 Oct 2010 at 17:24

hi there, this computer is still not to my liking, the main game being played is left 4 dead 2 which still drops to around 40 fps in most parts of maps.....

what would be the main cause of this?

ive run it at :

1360 x 768 main screen and 1920 x 1080 different monitor

running on both of these monitors and the different resloutions doesnt seem to gain anything....by that i mean running @ 1360 x 768 seems to give the same fps as running @ 1920 x 1080....

is the processor bottle necking the system? would it run better with a quad core?

terminator2k2 · 12 Oct 2010 at 14:24

hi there, how about if i stick a extra 2gig of ram and a q8300

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-269-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=567

would this do the trick?

why is the q8300 cheaper than most quads in intel series?

terminator2k2 · 12 Oct 2010 at 15:41

hi there, thanks for the replies....

yea 1 stick of 2 gig.....

ive clocked the cpu up to 3.2ghz, ive only played with the clock multiplier.....i was told to try and keep the ram running at 800 aswell, so ive knocked the system multiplier down i think.......

the graphics card im running @ 800 1900