Jeffzilla needs your help!!!

**JeffZilla** · 10-04-07, 09:12 PM

For the past 3 months..most of you hear my time in and time out bitch about my FPS, i just recently insalled a the ATI RadeonX1950PRO 512MB card with a 550W PWRSUPPLY...guess what..my graphics look great but fps is still hitting 20-40FPS...is there anything i can do besides killing my settings

heres a link of the exact computer i have
http://pcworld.about.com/news/Feb022005id119531.htm

i have 1.00 ram..i had the ram installed awhile back when i had the x700 installed

please help me...i plan on keeping this my new ati card...if theres no way to get my fps better..please guide me in the right direction to builing a new computer..i already have the card and pwr supply

thanks guys

**SapiensErus** · 10-04-07, 10:25 PM

Originally Posted by JeffZilla

For the past 3 months..most of you hear my time in and time out bitch about my FPS, i just recently insalled a the ATI RadeonX1950PRO 512MB card with a 550W PWRSUPPLY...guess what..my graphics look great but fps is still hitting 20-40FPS...is there anything i can do besides killing my settings

heres a link of the exact computer i have
http://pcworld.about.com/news/Feb022005id119531.htm

i have 1.00 ram..i had the ram installed awhile back when i had the x700 installed

please help me...i plan on keeping this my new ati card...if theres no way to get my fps better..please guide me in the right direction to builing a new computer..i already have the card and pwr supply

thanks guys

hey man,

Your Video card is pretty neat, but that system is really quite old. The processor is a few generations back... but I think with that card and a gig that system should be acceptable with settings turned down though so I am not sure why it would be that low. But I do reccommend building newer system.

The thing is that computer has an AGP for its video connection thus your card is probably AGP, so if you built a new system you would definately want to go PCI-E and that video card wont work. Also that system you listed will never support more than 1Gb of RAM so that is very limiting. It may be a lot of investment for you to make a new computer as many of your old parts wont be useful. Hope this helps a little...

If you want advice on building a whole new system just ask, but that thing you got now is pretty well maxed out and cannot go very far. Good luck!

**BigHub** · 10-04-07, 10:31 PM

Shit, i got:

MSI Motherboard
Apevia 600W PSU
AMD Athlon X2 4800+ Brisbane (2.5Ghz) OC'd @ 2.75Ghz AM2
2 x 1 GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 800 RAM
1 80-gig Western Digital HD
ATI Radeon X1950PRO 512MB AGP

3DMark06: 5077

Same g-card as Jeffzilla, but im sure my CPU is better and i have better RAM... But with my rig, i get around 80-150fps. Nothing wrong with AGP. But yes PCI would be the best way to go, but since you already got the g-card.. just change out the MB and processor.

My MB: $49.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813130064

My CPU: $109.00 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103778

Get a new processor, and better ram. If anything, when you upgrade later on... All you'll need is a new MB, so you're out $50. But fuck it, better than buying a whole new G-Card, Processor, RAM, and MB

**SapiensErus** · 10-04-07, 10:49 PM

yeah thats great advice... I just have not looked at AGP in a looooong time so I was just assuming that they didnt make many decent Mobos with AGP anymore and AGP was off the radar.

But yeah those prices are nice and cheap. That HP you got now is really weak compared to what Hub has.

Do what hub said! Although the Mobo he linked to uses DDR2 memory so you will have to buy some RAM as your system currently uses DDR.

But you can get a 2x1GB DDR2 800 kit for as low as 50 bucks on Newegg.com.

**jason_jinx** · 10-04-07, 11:53 PM

The handsome Pavilion A706n is inadequate for gaming and only so-so for daily computing.

The card is fine its the rest of the computer that cant keep up with it. Make sure that in the ATI control center everything is turned off and let the application decide on the Anti Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering. Then in game make sure all of your settings are on the * recomended settings.
When you build your new pc all you will see the difference.

**a weakling spaz** · 10-05-07, 05:38 PM

Good advice here, and what Hub suggested is the way to go unless you can afford to do a complete overhaul. You are definitely CPU limited and should see an FPS boost with his recommendations.