Recently I built a new computer, and I figured it'd be reasonably powerful, but it gets downright choppy <5 FPS in some firefights when playing HL2 in ONLY 1024x768 res!
It's a 3800+ AMD64
New Gigabyte Motherboard (nothing too flashy, but I dont think it's the weak point- It does support 8x agp and all)
2g patriot pc400 Ram
FX 5700VE Geforce Card with 256 memory (from old comp, but the cards only 1 yr old tops)
Nothings overclocked (thats another problem, I can only up my FSB by 3mhz without instability) And the cpu/graphics are water cooled. So I dont think thats it
Is there something wrong with my puter? I've heard my graphics card actually sucks from some people, so is that the case? Basically I'm curious if this is normal, or if theres something wrong here
It's a 3800+ AMD64
New Gigabyte Motherboard (nothing too flashy, but I dont think it's the weak point- It does support 8x agp and all)
2g patriot pc400 Ram
FX 5700VE Geforce Card with 256 memory (from old comp, but the cards only 1 yr old tops)
Nothings overclocked (thats another problem, I can only up my FSB by 3mhz without instability) And the cpu/graphics are water cooled. So I dont think thats it
Is there something wrong with my puter? I've heard my graphics card actually sucks from some people, so is that the case? Basically I'm curious if this is normal, or if theres something wrong here