Whats my bottleneck?

[yh125d]

Is it my Athlon 4000, or my 7600gt? I played some demos yesterday for some newer games and Im disappointed with my performance. I think its my 7600gt.

 

[yh125d]

Also, what kind of overclock can i expect from my 4000? I'm on air, and currently, at 2.6gHz, it idles at 34c, and 40-42 at load

 

[hardwareking]

what games did u play and at what resolution?
The 7600 gt is a decent card for gaming and so is ur processor.

 

[Boyo]

You are actually doing very well with that OC. I have an X2 4400+ and the best OC I can get is 2.68GHz. It's a nice OC.

I would think your 7600GT is your bottleneck.

 

[AVP]

Getting 2gigs might help assuming you have three 512 sticks because then you would be in dual channel, which I think would compensate for 2t timings which might result. Anyways, yeah your 7600gt is probably slowing you down.

 

[BassBomb]

your bottleneck is your wallet!

 

[cabroker]

I agree with AVP. Get 2GB (2X1024) sticks of RAM. Duel channel, tighter timings w/1T will make a difference.

 

[Cheex]

Agreed. Your 7600GT is the neck of the bottle.

 

[yh125d]

I play Wow, AOEIII, and a little FEAR all @ 1024x768.

My 4000 is a San diego core, not toledo or winchester, like your x2, boyo, from what i hear, san diegos are much better at o/c-ing, ive seen several procs just like mine over 3gHz

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: cabroker
I agree with AVP. Get 2GB (2X1024) sticks of RAM. Duel channel, tighter timings w/1T will make a difference.

That isnt what he was saying at all...

Timings doesnt help FPS in games significantly if at all.

He was saying to add another 512MB stick to enable dual channel, which would more than compensate for the increase in timings to 2t (something AMD processors do with 4 sticks of ram).

As for the OP, Graphics Card is the bottleneck, although the memory will also help.

You will not get a great OC with a biostar motherboard.

 

[aka1nas]

He's probably already in 2T with 3 sticks, so he most liely won't even lose performance in that regard.

 

[Antikristuseke]

I have never heard of anyone using three sticks of ram with an s939 mobo, from what i understand that doesnt really work all to well, if at all. In my own experiences runing with three sticks it only utilized two and then ran in single channel mode. As for the original question, your bottleneck is the graphics card.

 

[yh125d]

When i have 3 sticks of ram in my mobo, my chipset throttles it down to 333. I need to get a foutrh stick or 2x1gb sticks and go dual channel. I dont notice any difference between 1.5g @ 333 and 1g@ 400

 

[nyker96]

get a new g-card.