Question about my current rig and current gaming..

[Nate-X]

Alright, I'm running Windows XP 64 with an Opteron 165 (non-oc'd atm) and 2 gigs of memory. I have a 9800GT video card. I'm experiencing some choppiness/frame rate drop on certain parts of the game I play (Everquest 2). Would upgrading to 4 gigs of memory be worth while?

 

[Malladine]

you can find out if you go to task manager - > performance and compare peak commit charge with total physical memory. If the former is higher you need more RAM.

If that's not the issues, chances are a faster CPU will go the furthest towards improving your choppiness (upgrading the CPU would help anyway).

 

[FuryofFive]

Originally posted by: NateX
Alright, I'm running Windows XP 64 with an Opteron 165 (non-oc'd atm) and 2 gigs of memory. I have a 9800GT video card. I'm experiencing some choppiness/frame rate drop on certain parts of the game I play (Everquest 2). Would upgrading to 4 gigs of memory be worth while?

damn man heh, that thing OC's very nicely i have one. those things can go easily to 2.7, with the right settings

 

[Jakeisbest]

Originally posted by: Malladine
you can find out if you go to task manager - > performance and compare peak commit charge with total physical memory. If the former is higher you need more RAM.

If that's not the issues, chances are a faster CPU will go the furthest towards improving your choppiness (upgrading the CPU would help anyway).

What he said,

Your 9800gt should be more then enough for EQ2. I would doubt your are maxing out your 2gb of ram though. Try overlocking your opty,

See this write up from Tom's about your older processor

 

[Nate-X]

Thanks for all the answer.. I'm just trying to figure out why my computer craps the bed sometimes lol.

I had it oc'd when I first got it but had issues early on and I was just like screw this I just want a stable system and didn't feel like mucking with it anymore lol.

 

[FuryofFive]

hey what kind of PSU do u have? wonder if ur getting crappy power?

 

[Nate-X]

a PC Power & Cooling 550

 

[Capitalizt]

OC the processor by 20% and video card by 10%, then add another 2GB of ram and you will be good for a few years.

 

[Nate-X]

Yeah I had it overclocked to begin with but then had issues with a video card overheating so bumped him down a bit.. I had been able to get him up to 2.6 before so will have to play around when I get home and see what I can get at stock. Unfortunately it was a while since I had overclocked so don't recall all the settings I had changed. heheh

 

[Raduque]

hard drive issue? Maybe windows is swapping and the HD is slow so it's causing chop while it swaps?