Need Help Pc Upgrade

[ANSEL]

Something is really slowing your system down, but I doubt it is ram.

You mentioned my graphic card are the bottleneck in my system. I tried to overclock the system
and the cpu is going from 3.4 Ghz to 3.479Ghz, the graphic cpu from 1150 to 1173. I don't know
anything about overclocking, so my question is: is there a meaning with doing it, do I earn anything
doing that. If you have any advise about this matter, I will bee happy to hear them .

 

[Hylie Pistof]

In the other thread I said I didn't know if it was your GPU causing your slowdowns, but it looked like your CPU and RAM were doing fine. That is why I wanted you to run MSI Afterburner so we could see how your GPU is running.

About overclocking, only the K models are unlocked. You have a locked CPU so that most likely is all you can get. You will probably not notice the difference. You might notice a very slight improvement from the GPU overclock.

Bigger overclocks deliver a bigger increase in performance. I have a 25% overclock and it runs that much faster. But I had to upgrade everything starting with case fans because the increased speeds come from increased voltage and heat.

You have been getting a lot of crashes which makes me wonder about maintenance. Do you defrag at least once a week? I defrag every three days.

 

[ANSEL]

Do you defrag at least once a week?

I have SSD harddisc, so no more defrag for me. Before with the old disc, I was doing like you. You cant
defrag a SSD disc. If you in some way force it to do it, you might harm it badly.

 

[ANSEL]

so we could see how your GPU is running.

This is what I have about the CPU.

 

[Hylie Pistof]

Ah, SSD! So no defrag.

Is that on land or at sea? It looks like the CPU is hardly working at all.

 

[ANSEL]

Is that on land or at sea?

That's on land Port Royal and jungle.

 

[Hylie Pistof]

How are loads at sea? That is where I see the highest loads.

Your video card rates as slightly better than my last one, so it should handle POTC very well. I had a problem with it in that the load POTC put on it was so light it would drop into economy mode and performance dropped drastically. I fixed that problem in the video card control panel where I set every setting to the max in a custom profile for POTC. That put enough load on it to make it run in gaming mode and increased performance. Plus it looks way better like that.

 

[ANSEL]

How are loads at sea?

This is how it looks at sea.

 

[Hylie Pistof]

You have lots of room there. What are your video card settings for POTC?

 

[ANSEL]

What are your video card settings for POTC?

Here it is:

 

[Hylie Pistof]

This is my settings. AMD is much simpler.

 

[ANSEL]

I updated BIOS yesterday, and I think it make a difference

 

[ANSEL]

I can see you have teksturfiltrering set to performance, I have choosed high quality .
Maybe I should try it at performance and see what happens?

 

[Hylie Pistof]

You can try it if you want. I found it made no difference and now have it set at normal. This is only a DX8 game with low rez textures so setting it to high quality is futile.

 

[ANSEL]

so setting it to high quality is futile.

You where right, it very hard to see any difference, so in the middle it goes.

 

[Jelle]

What parts do you guys recommend for me?

 

[Hylie Pistof]

I thought you had already decided on parts.

 

[ANSEL]

What parts do you guys recommend for me?

I have this SSD harddisc, and when I get it, it was a big step forward. Every things goes so much faster now, and
no defrag is a nice thing to deal whit. So I think SSD harddisc is a must for a new computer.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

So I think SSD harddisc is a must for a new computer.

He's already got one.

 

[ANSEL]

He's already got

That`s nice to hear. Wish him luck with the project.