How do I increase my FPS to 60-80?

Well you have a Pentium D, i had one myself a while ago and it ran games good with my 9800GT and a gt240 i had. Your best bet is to buy that GT240 GDDR5 card to get the best results. Even tho your CPU is a really old. So a gt240 i will buy that.

I am sure you have pcie x16 slot in that computer. But to make sure, i would take your computer to a shop and ask someone if you arent sure.

Doing a search for PSU for that model it looks like it's a 305W model. You'd be very lucky to be able to run any modern graphics card from that. Looks like you'd have to upgrade the PSU to use any powerful graphics card.

Even the GT 240 card suggested by others uses over 200W of power(as shown in this chart). Doesn't leave much power to run the rest of the system.

You can find Power Supply requirement calculators on the web, some aren't too helpful. I just checked the Corsair one and it recommended 1000W+ for my system based on the CPU, GPU, number of hard drives and overclocking. And it currently runs without any problem on a 750W Corsair PSU. Go figure . At least the calculators give you a ball park figure of what you will probably require.

even if you did manage to put an okay graphics card in your system it will still be bottlenecked by the pentium D and the 1gb of ddr2 533. It doesn't seem that you can upgrade past that. It would also seem that you do not have a pci-e slot so that will limit your options for an upgrade. In the mean time I would recommend that check to see if you have your settings set to low.

Ok.. i been thinking and i might just scrap upgrading my computer because its not really fit for games. So i might just by a decent PC that is quite good at playing games, can you guys suggest any PCs. mayby gaming PCs.
BTW is the Intel Gaming PC - Intel Core Duo 2.7Ghz=5.4Ghz, 500Gb HDD, 4Gb RAM any good i just found it at £329.99.

It's the videocard that matters. do you have a link to it?

FPS

Here is the graphics card "Intel X4500 Graphics"

i don't know whether its good or not but in the review it said "Ideal gaming entry machine with great looks and performance" But is that true?

That's intel onboard graphics. Onboard graphics have come a long way but still no where near "good" for gaming I'm afraid

FPS

do you think you could suggest any good PCs that have a strong graphic card at say £300-£700 mayby.

there's no such thing as an ideal gaming "entry" machine. True gaming machines are high end with dedicated graphics and fast processors.

gaming entry machine is an oxymoron.

well if you are up for building your own, This will be a good machine for high detail on most games at 1680 x 1050. The total is about 470 quid, leaves room for a keyboard and monitor if you need Them... I think it's a pretty good entry level gamer...(Tedster)

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/205849 MB 69.00
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/235421 CPU 58.00
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/173122 RAM 44.00
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/240999 PSU 48.00
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/145450 OPTI 12.00
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/244473 GPU 150.00
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143854 CASE 48.00
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/173804 HDD 40.00

=469.00

razaguy

Can you post the link to the site which you are buying from and the computer you found on that site, a links please.

FPS

the wibsite that i might buy a PC off is is [http://www.eflexcomputers.com/shop/...tel-core-duo-2-7ghz-5-4ghz-500gb-hdd-4gb-ram]
but there is also a website whwere you can desigh your own PC and i made one with this:
Case
STYLISH PIANO BLACK ENIGMA CASE + 2 FRONT USB

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Pentium® DualCore G6960 (2.93GHz, 3MB Cache) + HD Graphics

Motherboard
ASUS® P7H55-M SI: MICRO ATX VALUE MAINBOARD,USB 2.0 & SATA 3.0Gb/s

Memory (RAM)
2GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (1 x 2GB)

Graphics Card
1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GT430 - DVI,HDMI,VGA - DirectX® 11

2nd Graphics Card
NONE

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
500GB SERIAL ATA 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (7,200rpm)

2nd Hard Disk
NONE

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
NONE

Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT

Power Supply
350W Dual Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan

Processor Cooling
INTEL SOCKET LGA1155/1156 STANDARD CPU COOLER

Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Network Facilities
ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs

USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD

Modem
NONE, I WILL BE USING BROADBAND

Floppy Disk Drive
NONE

Firewire & Video Editing
NONE

TV Card
NONE

Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)

Office Software
FREE Microsoft® Office Starter 2010 (Limited functionality Word & Excel)

Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL

Monitor
NONE

2nd Monitor
NONE

DVI-D & HDMI Monitor Cables
NONE

Eyefinity / GeForce 3D Vision
NONE

Keyboard & Mouse
NONE

Mouse
NONE

Speakers
NONE

Webcam
NONE

Headsets (VOIP)
NONE

Surge Protection
NONE

Printer
NONE

External Hard Drive
NONE

Home Installation
NONE

Warranty
3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)

and the website is called [http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/]

Well that custom built computer seems perfect dude, yea that is a very nice and that is a fast CPU. The GPU is pretty good, even tho i would replace that with a GT 440.

So yea that is very good items.