I'm debating on whether I should get a new computer or just get a new video card. Currently I'm using a HP I bought about 3-4 years ago and it has served me well. However, I'm having lots of load time issues and frame rate issue when playing games and stuff.
My game of choice right now is WoW. It plays ok, but sometime my framerate just goes to hell when in a raid. I turn down all the settings and have all unnecessary programs closed but still get horrible fps(like 3-4 range sometimes).
I do want to play the newer stuff, but sometimes it's just frustrating. When the CoD 4 demo first came out I tried it and I had to turn down a lot of settings to make that run smoothly. After that, I have avoided much of the newer graphic intensive stuff.
Beyond just graphics my computer as a whole is just slower than it used to be. Some programs take longer than usual to load and when I have to shut down/restart my computer for updates it doesn't even completely do that. I have to pull the plug and plug it back in.
Well seeing as the motherboard is LGA775 check to see if there are any recent bios updates. If there is you way be able to update to a newer c2d. That CPU will probably be a bottleneck, even if you do get a new video card.
If you're just gonna play wow go for a vid card. I used to play on a rig with 512 ram and a 256mb geforce card and I still managed to raid fine, and that was with 40 people back then.
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Beyond just graphics my computer as a whole is just slower than it used to be. Some programs take longer than usual to load and when I have to shut down/restart my computer for updates it doesn't even completely do that. I have to pull the plug and plug it back in.
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