Upgrading

[sheep500]

Hi All.

Just sank £300+ into a BFG Nvidia 8800 GTX OC graphics card.
games like Call of duty 2 now run incredibly sweet but I have to tone down MOH:Airbourne and now Crysis, the Graw 2 demo wasnt too sweet either. Is it because the card cant handle it -hope not for the money is cost....or is there a 'bottleneck' on my rig.

My rig is....

Athlon 64 x2 dual core 4400+
10,000rpm hdd
2 gig of corsair ddr pc3200 ram
BFG 8800 gtx oc

I am running on the new Beta Crysis drivers.

Any suggestions on what I can do to tweak??
If not, i'd appreciate what advice you could give me on my next hardware upgrade.

Cheers.

 

[sheep500]

Hi, cpu is overclocked using a program (A64) to 2306mhz.
Memory timings also oc'd. Currently running at 2-2-3-7.
It was an Sli system bought from scan a couple of years back so its quite good for fans etc cooling the insides.
Gutted if I have to spend more to be able to play new games with a decent fps. Too darn expensive these days...thought the 8800 gtx would have solved all the problems. Especially reading the reviews.
By the way, my drivers are 169.01, would it be worth trying .02 just out?

Cheers for the help thus far guys.

 

[sheep500]

I remembered that that program doesnt do it for you, just simulates it. It was the bios I altered, I simply set it to 5% overclock, it goes up to 15%.

Cheers

 

[sheep500]

Thanks mate, will try push more out of it.
I also have an issue with my NForce 4 drivers. A few months back I formatted and when I put the latest Nforce mobo drivers on all my games stuttered even though the frame rates were high. I am currently on an earlier nforce version as I have no stuttering, Im wondering if I need to put the latest ones back on to help......damn u Nvidia (becoming as annoying as EA...thats bad)