Upgrade Help Please

[amanat69]

Hello,

My current specification: 2.93GHz Pentium 4 515 processor, Gigabyte 6800GT graphics card, 2 x 512mb RAM (400mhz), 160gb seagate hard disk.

I find that this specification is not performing to what it should. I play Counter-Strike: Source, and I recieve between 50- 75 fps, and average of 70 fps. My friend has a ati x800gto2 and with a amd 2800 + and he gets fps of 100. What is going on? Also, a lot of people tell me that my processor is pretty crap. I made the mistake of buying a pre built pc from PC WORLD, a Packard Bell at that! It originally came with 512 RAM and a ati x300, but i upgraded this.

I think it might be my processor... Can anyone tell me about this?

If I upgrade my processor, what shall I upgrade it to? Along with the motherboard?

Or, shall I wait till next year when the new windows 64-bit comes out - or will the amd athlon 64 bit processors work just as well as the processors that come out next year. I'm very confused and I don't know what to do. But for the money i've spent on my pc, I feel i'm not getting what I should from it.

Can someone please help me and give me the run down. I like to play games a lot and I like to have the best system if you know what I mean - I like to play games on high graphics.

Thanks,
Amanat - 19/M/UK

 

[Feircepc]

well he has a better processor. amd are overall better in gaming than intels. also urs is prebuilt and his he built himself? and i think his card might be slightly better lemme check. and 70fps is good a human eye cant tell after 60-65 fps i think.

if u have the money upgrade ur motherboard and processor and u prolly will need some more ram and a new psu. so it could cost like another 500dollars. so its really up to u. a new athlon 64 3500 will be a big leap for u.

 

[TRDCorolla1]

You don't need 64 bit Windows for your P4 because the CPU itself won't do anything with it anyways. Try reformatting your hard drive all over again so you have a fresh clean build. That's a decent system and shouldn't react that slow.