Slowest PC

[MarkLP]

After just playing the Test Drive Unlimited Demo and closing it because It was jerking and juddering awfully. I thought am I one of the people with the slowest pc? lol

I haven't upgraded in probably 2 years that was to the 6600GT and a harddrive, which you can't really count.

Have been running the system, bar graphics card, for probably 4 years now, without any major problems, touch wood!

AMD Athlon 2800 'Barton' - Seems to be only running at 1667mhz though
Asus A7V600-X - I was surprised when I looked on the board to find it had SATA connectors the other day!!
Nvidia 6600GT - This seems to have handled everything i've thrown at it, ok some things on minimum graphics, but Test Drive seems to be just to much
1 GB Unbranded RAM - Well, Don't know if i'd notice a difference with branded ram or not!
Hiper 350w psu - Been stable and Quiet!

Once I get some money in I think its time for a proper upgrade, If I upgrade one thing its going to be bottlenecked by something else! I haven't kept up at all with the latest CPU's, Graphics card etc.. so that might be fun!!

So anyone else with a slower gaming pc?

Mark

 

[MarkLP]

Just spec'd this:

I don't even know if all the components are compatible, which is sad



AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ 2.20GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail
(£109.26)

Asus M2N-SLi Deluxe (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
(£88.11)

Kingston HyperX 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Kit (KHX6400D2K2/2G)
(£138.64)

EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS SuperClocked 320MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
(£223.24)

Samsung SpinPoint T HD501LJ 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM x 2
(£88.11)
(£176.22)

Scythe Infinity Heatpipe CPU Cooler (Socket 478, 775, AM2, 754, 939, 940)
(£31.71)

Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Professional 7.1 Soundcard - Retail
(£89.29)

Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK)
(£70.49)

Akasa Eclipse 62 Aluminium Case - No PSU
(£93.99)

Akasa Eclipse 62 Window Side Panel
(£15.26)

Sub Total : £891.89
Shipping : £12.95
Vat : £158.35
Total : £1,063.19

 

[MarkLP]

By the way, a 6600gt is not a harddrive, its a graphics card

Overclock the CPU and GPu as far as possible, if you know how to? (don't mean to sound patronising if you do)
If only minor improvements from that, consider buying a better graphics card such as a 7600gt for £94.

lol, my edit went completely wrong, ment the main upgrade was the graphics card and, harddrives along the way.

I think thats where I went wrong with the CPU speed, i tried overclocking with some help, but think I went completely wrong and thats why its on 1667mhz

 

[MarkLP]

They are, but with £1000 for a complete system, you'd be mad to go with an AMD processor now. They were the fastest for a long time, but when Intel got their Core 2 Duo processors out, the performance bar held by AMD finally fell.

The Core 2 Duo's are also amazing overclocking processors, most can give a 50-75% speed increase on stock volts!

Ah, I thought AMD were ment to be top dogs for gaming PC? That has completely changed then! If I'm not into overclocking is Intel still the way to go?

I fail to see the purpose of this thread.

re-read my first post then.

 

[MarkLP]

Asus P5W DH Deluxe WiFi (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

and

Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail



I didn't have a clue about the motherboard so I just chose the 975x chipset

 

[MarkLP]

It's inferior.

What's your total budget and what exactly do you want it to include?

Im not buying at the moment, I'm just trying to get back into the swing of things, and get up to date really. Just put that Spec together to see if I was still on the right lines

 

[MarkLP]

Cheers for the info!

To show you how out of date I am with memory, this is what I am familiar with

Crucial 1GB DDR PC3200


DDR2 - PC2-8500+

 

[MarkLP]

sorry demo as in beta

 

[MarkLP]

why do ppl still use old systems for like the above posters cause its obvisouly cant run new stuff

Something called money.