Do I have a system bottleneck?

[Rand Al'Thor]

I recently changed my 9800Pro to an X850, but the problem I was having has
not gone away and performance-wise there is little improvement. The problem
is that when playing Doom 3 and F.E.A.R. everthing gets jerky when mobs
appear, even sometimes when just turning corners? (using same game res/audio
setup as with the 9800Pro). Could this be due to my processor cache size. I
have no idea what difference cache size makes :-(

Any help be most appreciated.

Alan

SYSTEM:
P4-3.2Ghz 512k cache
Intel D865GLC mobo
1Gb DDR400 - XMS3200 Corsair matched ram
200Gb SATA HD

 

[BigJIm]

probably something running in the background might be causing the problem.
or try a new driver but uninstall the olds ones first, just a couple of
guesses.
the system looks good

 

[Pluvious]

|I recently changed my 9800Pro to an X850, but the problem I was having has
|not gone away and performance-wise there is little improvement. The problem
|is that when playing Doom 3 and F.E.A.R. everthing gets jerky when mobs
|appear, even sometimes when just turning corners? (using same game res/audio
|setup as with the 9800Pro). Could this be due to my processor cache size. I
|have no idea what difference cache size makes :-(
|
|Any help be most appreciated.
|
|Alan
|
|SYSTEM:
|P4-3.2Ghz 512k cache
|Intel D865GLC mobo
|1Gb DDR400 - XMS3200 Corsair matched ram
|200Gb SATA HD
|

More RAM.. get 2GB. Solved it for me.

Pluvious

 

[NightSky 421]

I recently changed my 9800Pro to an X850, but the problem I was having has
not gone away and performance-wise there is little improvement. The problem
is that when playing Doom 3 and F.E.A.R. everthing gets jerky when mobs
appear, even sometimes when just turning corners? (using same game
res/audio setup as with the 9800Pro). Could this be due to my processor
cache size. I have no idea what difference cache size makes :-(

Any help be most appreciated.

Alan

SYSTEM:
P4-3.2Ghz 512k cache
Intel D865GLC mobo
1Gb DDR400 - XMS3200 Corsair matched ram
200Gb SATA HD

How recent are your motherboard chipset drivers, and is your BIOS up to
date?

For what it's worth, I have found on rare occasions that playing around the
AGP Aperture size in the BIOS can help. But I've had it set to 128MB for
the longest time and it's been fine. My video card is a 9800 Pro with
128MB.

 

[Catfish]

Well I got one and it is a great graphics card , the agp flavour. The card
got rid of my slide show effect big time.
You do not need to start the ole upgrading process just yet.
Use driver cleaner in safe mode then re-install with a fresh set of drivers
( Cat 5.10) is working fine for me.
There are other options as well, before spending money, try this first.

 

[Rand Al'Thor]

Thanks for your replies, folks!

Just have to suck it and see

Alan