First off, let's get the embarrassing part out of the way..my computer specs are as follows:
P4 2.66Ghz (Northwood 533Mhz FSB)
1GB PC2700
Radeon 9800 Pro
I'm contemplating whether or not it'll be worth upgrading the video card to one of the following:
Geforce 7600GS (Cheapest)
Radeon HD2600PRO
Geforce 7600GT (Most expensive)
Those are pretty much the only AGP cards available to me at my local stores. I play WoW and HL2/CSS/TF2 mostly. On WoW I get 40-50FPS for less populated areas and i dip down to 20-30FPS (ouch!) for the most part. As for CSS, it plays fine usually but it could use some extra frames here and there. TF2 is straight out ugly...playable but low FPS and at low settings too.
As a side note, I'm probably adding an extra 512MB or 1GB of RAM but I doubt it's the RAM that's affecting my WoW gameplay; though it might help TF2.
I've been looking into the whole bottlenecking bit but hardly found an answer. I'm thinking of getting the 7600GT but afraid it'll be wasted cause of the CPU. The 7600GS is way cheaper but if my system can make use of the HD2600PRO or 7600GT I'd rather get those. I don't know what to do
Thanks for the help!
P4 2.66Ghz (Northwood 533Mhz FSB)
1GB PC2700
Radeon 9800 Pro
I'm contemplating whether or not it'll be worth upgrading the video card to one of the following:
Geforce 7600GS (Cheapest)
Radeon HD2600PRO
Geforce 7600GT (Most expensive)
Those are pretty much the only AGP cards available to me at my local stores. I play WoW and HL2/CSS/TF2 mostly. On WoW I get 40-50FPS for less populated areas and i dip down to 20-30FPS (ouch!) for the most part. As for CSS, it plays fine usually but it could use some extra frames here and there. TF2 is straight out ugly...playable but low FPS and at low settings too.
As a side note, I'm probably adding an extra 512MB or 1GB of RAM but I doubt it's the RAM that's affecting my WoW gameplay; though it might help TF2.
I've been looking into the whole bottlenecking bit but hardly found an answer. I'm thinking of getting the 7600GT but afraid it'll be wasted cause of the CPU. The 7600GS is way cheaper but if my system can make use of the HD2600PRO or 7600GT I'd rather get those. I don't know what to do
Thanks for the help!