- Jun 22, 2005
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Hi,
I've just completed a small upgrade in anticipation of Left 4 Dead. I didn't have a lot of money to spend and used the 30% Live Cashback promotion to get the most for my very limited budget. I'm coming from a Athlon 64 3000+ (Socket 754), 1GB of RAM and a 6600GT (AGP). I've upgraded to a Athlon 64 X2 5200+, 2GB of RAM and a 9600GT. I'm using Team Fortress 2 and Fraps for benchmarking.
Setting all of the graphics settings to max in TF2 at 1280x960 with 4xAA and 16xAF my FPS are: Min: 22 Max: 112 Avg: 45.350. Using the same settings as before but upping the resolution to 1600x1200 my results are: Min: 22 Max: 110 Avg: 44.667. So I take it my CPU is holding me back? I am quite happy with the performance with this setup, but I'm wondering if overclocking my CPU would bring any kind of noticeable performance improvement? Thanks!
I've just completed a small upgrade in anticipation of Left 4 Dead. I didn't have a lot of money to spend and used the 30% Live Cashback promotion to get the most for my very limited budget. I'm coming from a Athlon 64 3000+ (Socket 754), 1GB of RAM and a 6600GT (AGP). I've upgraded to a Athlon 64 X2 5200+, 2GB of RAM and a 9600GT. I'm using Team Fortress 2 and Fraps for benchmarking.
Setting all of the graphics settings to max in TF2 at 1280x960 with 4xAA and 16xAF my FPS are: Min: 22 Max: 112 Avg: 45.350. Using the same settings as before but upping the resolution to 1600x1200 my results are: Min: 22 Max: 110 Avg: 44.667. So I take it my CPU is holding me back? I am quite happy with the performance with this setup, but I'm wondering if overclocking my CPU would bring any kind of noticeable performance improvement? Thanks!