Whats wrong?

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Hey guys!

This is my first post here at overclockers!
I have had some problems with my computer recently..
Baiclly at christmas i went and brought a

BFG Nvidia 7600 oc AGP
It was a upgrade from a
Nvidia 5200

As the gap was so high i was expecting a pretty good performance differance.. But to my supprise it run's basiclly the same..

A friend said it could be my CPU from stopping it run at its full potential
My CPU spec is

AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1.6GHZ
1024MB RAM

Now we all know that thats not a good processor.. it was in its time but not now.. Can you tell me what is wrong? what i should do? i would have about 150£.. I was looking at a AMD 64 Athlon 3800 dual core.. but then i would need a mobo.. I need some help!

Forgot to say.. bad performance =
20 fps in CSS graphics medium.. Runs every game like it..

Thanks in advance guys! :)
 
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Hmm well I went from a Radeon 9600 Pro to a Palit 7600 GS AGP and the difference was massive. I don't know anything about the NVidia 5200 but that's my experience for your reference. I have a Barton 2500+ CPU with 1Gb of RAM. I'm talking about Far Cry being barely playable at low settings to being very playable at max detail with no aa / af.

Strange that you've seen zero improvement, especially if the 5200 is a poor card.
 
Yeah ive tried updating all the drivers... Direct x and Nvidia's drivers.. tryed to find my mobo drivers... but they seem non existant..

i have came up with this... will this work fine?

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ 2.20GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail
+
Asrock AM2NF3-VSTA (Socket AM2) AGP DDR2 Motherboard

It makes it about £140
 
Yeah... should i go with what i spec'ed before then? do you think that would sort my problems?

The dual core is only 2ghz. Would it run new games?
i dont know how dual cored really work.. its 2ghz.. so to me thats hardly any difernce from 1.6hgz.

Does the dual core kinda make it 4 ghz ?
 
olibe said:
Yeah... should i go with what i spec'ed before then? do you think that would sort my problems?

The dual core is only 2ghz. Would it run new games?
i dont know how dual cored really work.. its 2ghz.. so to me thats hardly any difernce from 1.6hgz.

Does the dual core kinda make it 4 ghz ?
Put simply, yes. The game will run on one core and background processes will run on the other. CS:S is more of a CPU intensive game so you will see a marked improvement.
 
ahhhhh! nice one thanks.. so basiclly it puts a whole processor to the game.. thats nice :D

i will see if i can order it today.. i could let you know if it works or not?
 
That board will require DDR2 ram and I'm pretty sure that your current ram will be DDR1 so you will need some new ram if you go for that board and cpu.
 
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