is my cpu a bottleneck?

[dhamm0730]

I put a pc together today with ubuntu. It's an old emachine
Gt 630
Celeron 420
2 gb RAM
I tried to play some cs:go and I was getting horrible preformance. At first it was because it was using on board graphics. I updated my gpu drivers and it is using the gpu but with no better preformance. Is it a cpu bottleneck? My laptop runs it on lowish settings 60 fps with a celeron 1000m and integrated gpu. Could it be drivers, ubuntu or steam/the game itself?

 

[LookItsRain]

A single core cpu at 1.6ghz, holy crap. Thats the bottleneck big time.

 

[drtweak]

Yea that old Celeron might not be be able to push the Source Engine very well but then Celerons of today aren't as bad as the ones from 5 years ago. The Graphics card should be ok for Source stuff. I have a BIOSTAR NM70I-1037U Intel Celeron 1037U Dual-Core 1.8GHz that i use as a daily PC/Media Server. Have a SSD as the OS Drive and it works pretty good. I can play like The Walking Dead just find. Only a little lag. I tired doing the Stream Streaming feature and have my high end gaming rig do all the work and stream it to there. It was ok. It lagged quite a bit, but borderlands was still playable. It is most likely your CPU.

Edit: IDK Why but i googled the 1000m thinking well thats not too bad...Then googled the real one in question.

Yea its the CPU no doubt about it now XD

 

[dhamm0730]

I thought it was dual lol. I guess I need to do better research

 

[drtweak]

Yea no the 1000m IS a dual core. I was like...well shouldn't be that bad. Then realized its a 420 and i was like...Umm YEA lmao get a new CPU if you can.