The Gaming PC Building/Upgrade Thread

[Shinobi-san]

smbu2000 said:

Shinobi-san said:

Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q9400 @ 2.66Ghz

4gb of DDR2 800mhz ram

9500gt gpu (now gtx 560ti)

480watt powersupply (not sure on the brand might be a no name brand :/ !!!)

The motherboard im not sure on the exact name but the cd says ASUS P5N-D Nvidia 750iSLI

Are you running the cpu at stock speed 2.66ghz? If so, then I would imagine that's where the bottleneck would be.

Is it possible for you to overclock it? My old system with a Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4ghz) would easily run over 3ghz. I'm not sure about overclocking on that nforce 750i sli board though, my old one had a P35 chipset.

I had an idea it was the cpu :( Im getting 1-4 fps in the cpu test on 3dmark11...well below the average fps. From your experience would overclocking it to 3ghz make a substantial difference in performance? I dont know much about overclocking apart from moving a few sliding bars up and down in a utility program :/ Il look into overclocking though...Im also planning on upgrading to windows 7 64bit and adding an additional 1gb ram...and im gona do away with the IDE hdd although from the research ive done that shoudnt make a big difference.

Thanx for the advise smbu2000 :)