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WhiteHawk · « **on:** June 04, 2003, 09:36:14 AM »

What are all the components related to spped and frame rate as far as hardware goes.

ie. RAM Vid card CPU speed and frontside bus.

I have a p4 1.7 ghz
gf 4 ti4200
768 SDRAM (PC133)
I haev found out that my system is limited by my ram. What else is there in the pipeline that can cause bottle necks Front side bus? Hard drive speed?

FOGOLD · « **Reply #1 on:** June 04, 2003, 10:00:12 AM »

I think you have a pretty balanced system. Ok, DDR Ram is flavour of the month, but you would probably notice very little difference having it. A good balanced system is worth a lot. If your Ram had been only PC100 it may have been a bottleneck.

WhiteHawk · « **Reply #2 on:** June 04, 2003, 11:02:59 AM »

thnx FOGOLD, My problem isnt with AH, its with games such as CFS3 and IL2, Frame rate makes these games unplayable most of the time and i am unable to enable all of the graphical features.
I am due for a new puter and dont want to make the mistake at looking at just cpu speed and graphic card.

Dingbat · « **Reply #3 on:** June 04, 2003, 12:50:23 PM »

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Originally posted by FOGOLD
I think you have a pretty balanced system. Ok, DDR Ram is flavour of the month, but you would probably notice very little difference having it. A good balanced system is worth a lot. If your Ram had been only PC100 it may have been a bottleneck.

I disagree, you'll probably see a huge difference between SDRAM and DDR ram because of the memory bandwith.

HDD speed is and always be a bottleneck, if you just game on this machine then do a stripe set raid config.

Dingbat · « **Reply #4 on:** June 04, 2003, 12:50:58 PM »

Also hit http://www.anandtech.com they've gotten some great reviews lately.

WhiteHawk · « **Reply #5 on:** June 04, 2003, 12:57:09 PM »

Da hell is a striped set raid config?

WhiteHawk · « **Reply #6 on:** June 04, 2003, 01:01:41 PM »

I would really like to know what is involved with installing a motherboard as far as compatability is concerned, I beleive I can do the hardware work, but I am afraid, someting will be imcompatable with something else, also how do I keep my software on my puter if I upgrade to anew MOBO.

BenDover · « **Reply #7 on:** June 05, 2003, 09:48:03 PM »

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Originally posted by WhiteHawk
Da hell is a striped set raid config?

Its where digital goblins come and clean all the toejam off your hard drive:D

FOGOLD · « **Reply #8 on:** June 06, 2003, 04:03:06 AM »

Jeez, that machine should still run CFS3 and Il2 no prob surely??

FOGOLD · « **Reply #9 on:** June 06, 2003, 04:04:04 AM »

I have an Athlon XP1800 Gf3 Ti500 512DDR and Il2 FB runs sweet as a nut with high detail.

Dingbat · « **Reply #10 on:** June 06, 2003, 07:22:00 AM »

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Originally posted by FOGOLD
I have an Athlon XP1800 Gf3 Ti500 512DDR and Il2 FB runs sweet as a nut with high detail.

U have DDR, Sdram for a 1.7 is killing the machine...

He does have enough megahurtz but the mem pipe is slowing him down.

BenDover · « **Reply #11 on:** June 06, 2003, 07:30:30 AM »

I'd need a new motherboard to get DDR

And a new vid card aswell, my GF4 MX for some reason only gives a small performance boost over my 2/3 PCI voodoo4 I had in before

Dingbat · « **Reply #12 on:** June 06, 2003, 07:36:19 AM »

Just thought of something, did you use the frame rate slider in CFS3?

WhiteHawk · « **Reply #13 on:** June 08, 2003, 10:16:31 AM »

ya, I either have a problem with my systemm, or the pc133 RAM is bogging me down. What about soundcartd, I have a soundmax somethign, it came with my puter. Is a ****ty soundcard crippling to FR or does that just messs w the sound

Dingbat · « **Reply #14 on:** June 08, 2003, 10:22:51 AM »

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Originally posted by WhiteHawk
ya, I either have a problem with my systemm, or the pc133 RAM is bogging me down. What about soundcartd, I have a soundmax somethign, it came with my puter. Is a ****ty soundcard crippling to FR or does that just messs w the sound

A little of both, I have an SBLive for sale 15$ if you are interested.