bought a new pc

[Noud027]

Hi,
In January I bought a new pc. It was used for about a month, and then sold to me.
It was about 900 euro's including all kinds of accessoires (monitor, sound system and such)
In some games I get average framerates (using fraps), even though I'd expect high ones.

These are the components:

• Housing: Cooler Master CM Storm Sniper Black
• Processor: Intel Core I7 950 3,06Ghz Quad Core
• Graphics Card: Palit Geforce GTX 570
• RAM: Kingston HyperX triple channel 6GB pc12800 1600Mhz
• Motherboard: Asus P6T Deluxe V2
• Power Supply: Corsair TX850 850W 20+24 pins
• Hard Drive: Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB

What would be the weakest part?
Or is there just something else wrong?

Thanks in advance

 

[gary1]

It's a pretty good system overall. I think it's pretty balanced actually.

 

[geofelt]

By and large, it looks balanced to me.

For most games, the graphics card is the weakest link.

If you want to explore options a bit, run these two tests:

a) Run your games, but lower your resolution and eye candy.
If your FPS increases, it indicates that your cpu is strong enough to drive a better graphics configuration.

b) Limit your cpu, either by reducing the OC, or, in windows power management, limit the maximum cpu% to something like 50%.

Go to control panel/power options/change plan settings/change advanced power settings/processor power management/maximum processor state/
set to 50% and see how you do.


If your FPS drops significantly, it is an indicator that your cpu is the limiting factor, and a cpu upgrade is in order.

It is possible that both tests are positive, indicating that you have a well balanced system, and both cpu and gpu need to be upgraded to get better gaming FPS.

 

[tsnor]

Nice system.

Next upgrade... disk unless you hit a game that needs more video. Video is strong, could be stronger. You have a ton of CPU/memory, and can OC the i7 a bit. Disk pricing is still recovering from the thai flooding. When price drops consider a raid0 array to improve boot and level load times. Your X58 MB supports it using intel drivers.