Please help with what to upgrade?

My system is starting to struggle playing new games now. What you you reccommend me upgrading.pentium D 820 (2.8ghz)1024 mb ddr27600GTMother board - I dont know what it is. It is a gateway If you need more info, please let me know. ThanksPlease help with what to upgrade?
Try dropping in another gig of ram for now, hopefully you have one 1gb stick instead of two 512mb sticks. If you have two 512 sticks then just buy two new 1gb sticks.The graphics card is starting to age a bit, you could try a 7950GT for about $200.Please help with what to upgrade?
Is my processor ok? Should I upgrade it? Or will more ram and a better video card help me out? I am thinking of buying Stalker. I also tried the demo for Dirt, and my pc's performance was horrible.
anyone?
Unfortunately its all a bit outdated now.7600GT is still a pretty decent mid-range GFX card though... so i woudn't change that just yet.You do need a new processor though. Intel Core 2 Duo is the way to go, but then you would need up upgrade to a motherboard with socket LGA 775.EDIT | do yoi know what motherboard you currently have?
The processor should be fine for now. I think that more RAM, and a better video card will do you some good....and you should be able to play STALKER alright.
I just suggested keeping the processor cuz it should still be good enough to play most games....otherwise he would have to replace the motherboard, and since he has a Gateway, that would require getting a whole new case as well and pretty much building a whole new system.
[QUOTE=''Alex1029'']I just suggested keeping the processor cuz it should still be good enough to play most games....otherwise he would have to replace the motherboard, and since he has a Gateway, that would require getting a whole new case as well and pretty much building a whole new system. [/QUOTE]well, now that you put it like that....
[QUOTE=''dbowman'']You do need a new processor though. Intel Core 2 Duo is the way to go, but then you would need up upgrade to a motherboard with socket LGA 775.EDIT | do yoi know what motherboard you currently have?[/QUOTE]It just says- Intel corporation D945GCZ
[QUOTE=''Golden_Domer''][QUOTE=''dbowman'']You do need a new processor though. Intel Core 2 Duo is the way to go, but then you would need up upgrade to a motherboard with socket LGA 775.EDIT | do yoi know what motherboard you currently have?[/QUOTE]It just says- Intel corporation D945GCZ[/QUOTE]it was LGA 775, yep you can upgrade your processor to core 2 duo :)
Not necessarily...it just means that the processor itself will fit in the socket. That particular motherboard can only handle a 800MHz FSB. If I'm not mistaken, the Core 2 processors have a FSB of 1066MHz...right? Which would make putting the processor in that motherboard completely useless.
[QUOTE=''Alex1029'']Not necessarily...it just means that the processor itself will fit in the socket. That particular motherboard can only handle a 800MHz FSB. If I'm not mistaken, the Core 2 processors have a FSB of 1066MHz...right? Which would make putting the processor in that motherboard completely useless.[/QUOTE]the motherboard can handle 1066 and 800MHz
Not according to Intel. It can only support 533MHz and 800MHz. http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d945gcz/sb/CS-026632.htm
[QUOTE=''wklzip''][QUOTE=''Alex1029'']Not necessarily...it just means that the processor itself will fit in the socket. That particular motherboard can only handle a 800MHz FSB. If I'm not mistaken, the Core 2 processors have a FSB of 1066MHz...right? Which would make putting the processor in that motherboard completely useless.[/QUOTE]the motherboard can handle 1066 and 800MHz[/QUOTE]Is this correct? Can it handle 1066?
[QUOTE=''Alex1029'']Not according to Intel. It can only support 533MHz and 800MHz. http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d945gcz/sb/CS-026632.htm[/QUOTE]Or, is this correct. I see it shows the fsb is 800, but I dont see where it says anything about what it can handle. Thank you all for your help?
[QUOTE=''Golden_Domer'']Is my processor ok? Should I upgrade it? Or will more ram and a better video card help me out? I am thinking of buying Stalker. I also tried the demo for Dirt, and my pc's performance was horrible.[/QUOTE] your graphics card ismore of a problem. You can see if it's the cpu by running task manager in the back ground while playing a game and look at the cpu usage in the performnace tab. [QUOTE=''dbowman''] Unfortunately its all a bit outdated now.7600GT is still a pretty decent mid-range GFX card though... so i woudn't change that just yet.You do need a new processor though. Intel Core 2 Duo is the way to go, but then you would need up upgrade to a motherboard with socket LGA 775.EDIT | do yoi know what motherboard you currently have?[/QUOTE] the 7600gt is more dated for gaming the the cpu.
[QUOTE=''wklzip''][QUOTE=''Golden_Domer''][QUOTE=''dbowman''] You do need a new processor though. Intel Core 2 Duo is the way to go, but then you would need up upgrade to a motherboard with socket LGA 775.EDIT | do yoi know what motherboard you currently have?[/QUOTE]It just says- Intel corporation D945GCZ[/QUOTE]it was LGA 775, yep you can upgrade your processor to core 2 duo :)[/QUOTE] not all 775 boards support all 775 cpus. intel has a tendency to keep changing the chipsets which means you need a new board even if the socket is the same. The first thing he should do is put another gig of ram in
[QUOTE=''Golden_Domer''][QUOTE=''Alex1029''] Not according to Intel. It can only support 533MHz and 800MHz. http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d945gcz/sb/CS-026632.htm[/QUOTE]Or, is this correct. I see it shows the fsb is 800, but I dont see where it says anything about what it can handle. Thank you all for your help?[/QUOTE] that one is correct, it supports only pentiums and celerons, says intel, the cpu isn't your problem. to test if it really is the cpu turn all the game settings to low and see if you get the same performance, if it perfroms better the gpu or ram is the issue.