adding second cpu to XW6600

[JoJoMix]

Hello everyone,

I have an HP XW6600 pc with single E5450 3.0GHz cpu and 8GB ram (4 x2gb ddr2) and fx3700 512mb. windows 8 pro 64bit

I am trying to play games on this pc and also stream videos online. I know this pc is a workstation and cpu is old and i need to upgrade if i want to play newer games and steam high HD 1080 quality.

I was playing games like minecraft, war thunder and world of tanks, last two are played on low setting and I get average 60-70 on 1080 and sometimes drop to 40.

I upgraded my gpu to 660ti, got it as a gift used from a friend and after installing it I almost noticed no difference at all in fps. Even playing on higher setting dropped fps to low 30-40 average.

I know my pc is old and my ram ddr2 and cpu is a bottleneck for my gpu. I want to know if adding a new cpu (another E5450) to my motherboard would increase the performance or not. Maybe dual cpu is not supported by usual games and software so I might or might not notice any difference.

I will buy a new pc soon but it would be in like 6 months. I found used e5450 cpu for like $35 including shipping but would then buy a used cooler as well. I just would like to know if win 8 pro and steaming/ gaming would support dual cpu and would get some boost in performance.

Thank you very much 😀

 

[Kenneth Barker]

What device is your monitor hooked up to? Have you installed the needed drivers for the graphics card?

 

[jimmysmitty]

Adding a second CPU wont benefit you much. The current one is a quad core and adding a second one will also add 4 more cores but they are much older cores. In fact they are based on the very old Penryn uArch from 2007. If you were to say upgrade to just a i4 4670K you would see a big performance jump.

That is what I see anyways.

 

[JoJoMix]

What device is your monitor hooked up to? Have you installed the needed drivers for the graphics card?

I am using Philips TV full HD and connecting the new 660ti using DVI cable and set resolution to 1920x1080. I got the latest nvidia drivers from nvidia website and before installing I did use display driver remover and remove the old one for the FX3700 completely.

 

[mbarnes86]

Hi

The only free way of improving speed of graphics. Fps is to reduce resolution
Say to something with half the number of pixels

See what resolution the TV set and drivers support

Gaming is much more taxing on hardware than streaming videos

Adding extra ram or another CPU with 4 more cores is unlikely to affect games speed fps
only programs designed to use multiple cores on workstations would benefit

Regards
Mike Barnes

 

[JoJoMix]

Hi

The only free way of improving speed of graphics. Fps is to reduce resolution
Say to something with half the number of pixels

See what resolution the TV set and drivers support

Gaming is much more taxing on hardware than streaming videos

Adding extra ram or another CPU with 4 more cores is unlikely to affect games speed fps
only programs designed to use multiple cores on workstations would benefit

Regards
Mike Barnes

Hello Mike,

Thank you for your help. It is true that resolution does stress much and decreasing would improve fps. But before I had fx3700 which is really bad and even not designed for gaming. I was running games on somethinh like 1600x1000 don't remember but fps was good around 70s. Now 660ti is a big upgrade i'm sure with more vram and i just put resolution to 1920x1080 because that is the native resolution of my HD tv but i feel almost no difference to fps on same setting. Putting higher quality texture drops fps more than old gpu.

Is it that my cpu is really bottleneck my gpu that much that i'm seeing almost no difference in gaming? Also i'm starting to get some freeze on my pc like twice per day when loading a game or playing. I see no blue screen or dump file but I can only restart to get my pc back. Freezing is permanent.

This only happened after adding the new gpu 660ti and i did reinstall driver like 3 times, tried newest drivers and got one old from july this year all same results. It is just random crash not related to heat as my cpu and gpu temp are all fine.

 

[jimmysmitty]

It is an upgrade but that CPU is holding you back a bit but you also jumped resolution. You went from 1600x900 (most likely unless you were at 1680x1050) to 1920x1080 which is a big jump. The 660Ti would have murdered the FX3700 at the lower resolution but jumping resolution added to the performance drop.

Still adding a second CPU will not gain the performance you are hoping for.

 

[JoJoMix]

It is an upgrade but that CPU is holding you back a bit but you also jumped resolution. You went from 1600x900 (most likely unless you were at 1680x1050) to 1920x1080 which is a big jump. The 660Ti would have murdered the FX3700 at the lower resolution but jumping resolution added to the performance drop.

Still adding a second CPU will not gain the performance you are hoping for.

Yes the resolution was around the 1600x1050 and i guess you are right about the resolution jump. it is unfortunate that another cpu would not give better fps I would save therefore for new pc

Thanks to everyone who helped me with this issue.