What is the weakest link?

[LuciniaFletcher]

In my system. Specs are below. I just got FEAR and I really want to play it on max settings. I know the video card needs to get updated. Is everything else ok?

 

[biostud]

yes, you might want to try to overclock your CPU, the videocard is definately the bottleneck.

 

[Wentelteefje]

I'd try overclocking your CPU as well... Reviewers all over the internet manage to get quite high FSB's with that mainboard, so you could try it as well...

NeoSeeker: 280MHz
PCStats: 262MHz
The Tech Report: 260MHz
NinjaLane: 245MHz
Viperlair: 240MHz (They use a processor that's hard to overclock...)
HotHardware: 230MHz? (Man, their method sucks... Leaving the multiplier at 11x...)

If you do it the same way as NeoSeeker, with a divider because that RAM of you won't be hitting high..., you must be able to overclock your CPU to a FSB of 245MHz, hence a 3500+, or even more... I know it's a Winnie, but some of those chips also managed to hit 2.6GHz, so it should probably even work trying to get to 266MHz, then you'd have an Athlon 64 3800+...

Although overclocking doesn't gain you a lot on that 6600GT, go for it as well, some extra frames are always welcome... Use CoolBits to overclock it...

Good luck...

 

[Powermoloch]

Bah...it's your memory. You need more memory.

 

[Some1ne]

No, it's the video card. FEAR will run just fine with a gig of RAM and a high-end video card and a 3000+ CPU (though as mentioned, the winchester 3000+ is highly overclockable in general).