richiespeed13
Hi All,
Sorry if this is a rather daft thread, but I am looking for some advice on some new parts I have purchased.
At the moment my PC specs are this:
ATI Radeon 4870 512mb
4GB DDR2 RAM
Intel E8500 @ 3.16ghz
Win 7 Ultimate
I can hardly run rFactor 2 at good settings. At my native 1920x1080, running at medium settings is "ok", a little stuttery sometimes, but ok. The game looks pretty poor on these settings however. When I max all settings, with just me on track, the game looks great, but I only get 20fps, lol.
So, here is my situation and questions:
My PC has been in bad shape for the last few months, the PSU and HDD have been making all sorts of weird noises! So I have just ordered a new hard drive, and a new 750w PSU.
My first question, if I potentially had issues with my PSU and HDD, could that have caused performance loss when gaming and in general computing? If so, how much? I understand it is probably all very relative to the particular situation.
My second question, I have purchased an ATI Radeon 5870, with 1GB Vram, (which is 512mb more than my old 4870), will this card alone see reasonable performance gains within rFactor 2, putting aside that my dual core CPU may be a bottle neck? I am not looking for miracles, but if I could run at fairly good settings in my native resolution, with 20 other cars on track, I would be very, very happy!
Also, as I have said above, I have 4GB DDR2 RAM, in the form of 2x 2GB blocks.
I have just ordered another 4GB, also in 2x 2GB blocks, (of course, I bought the exact same type of RAM). So this will bring me up to 8GB of DDR2 ram. I know DDR2 is pretty old, but will adding more RAM increase FPS in rFactor 2 at all? I have a 64 bit system, and I primarily bought more RAM as I love video editing.
My motherboard doesn't support DDR3, which is why I haven't just upgraded to that.
So I guess at the end of the day, I just want to know, with my repairs and upgrades, will my "it was good in 2007" pc, be brought slightly further into the future, and able to run games at reasonably higher settings?
On one hand, it seems obvious that these upgrades should increase performance, but I am not sure by how much, and I am also worried that things like DDR2 RAM, and dual core CPU, might be a very large bottleneck when playing games like rFactor 2 and Arma 2, etc.
Thanks very much for any help!
Regards,
Rich.
Sorry if this is a rather daft thread, but I am looking for some advice on some new parts I have purchased.
At the moment my PC specs are this:
ATI Radeon 4870 512mb
4GB DDR2 RAM
Intel E8500 @ 3.16ghz
Win 7 Ultimate
I can hardly run rFactor 2 at good settings. At my native 1920x1080, running at medium settings is "ok", a little stuttery sometimes, but ok. The game looks pretty poor on these settings however. When I max all settings, with just me on track, the game looks great, but I only get 20fps, lol.
So, here is my situation and questions:
My PC has been in bad shape for the last few months, the PSU and HDD have been making all sorts of weird noises! So I have just ordered a new hard drive, and a new 750w PSU.
My first question, if I potentially had issues with my PSU and HDD, could that have caused performance loss when gaming and in general computing? If so, how much? I understand it is probably all very relative to the particular situation.
My second question, I have purchased an ATI Radeon 5870, with 1GB Vram, (which is 512mb more than my old 4870), will this card alone see reasonable performance gains within rFactor 2, putting aside that my dual core CPU may be a bottle neck? I am not looking for miracles, but if I could run at fairly good settings in my native resolution, with 20 other cars on track, I would be very, very happy!
Also, as I have said above, I have 4GB DDR2 RAM, in the form of 2x 2GB blocks.
I have just ordered another 4GB, also in 2x 2GB blocks, (of course, I bought the exact same type of RAM). So this will bring me up to 8GB of DDR2 ram. I know DDR2 is pretty old, but will adding more RAM increase FPS in rFactor 2 at all? I have a 64 bit system, and I primarily bought more RAM as I love video editing.
My motherboard doesn't support DDR3, which is why I haven't just upgraded to that.
So I guess at the end of the day, I just want to know, with my repairs and upgrades, will my "it was good in 2007" pc, be brought slightly further into the future, and able to run games at reasonably higher settings?
On one hand, it seems obvious that these upgrades should increase performance, but I am not sure by how much, and I am also worried that things like DDR2 RAM, and dual core CPU, might be a very large bottleneck when playing games like rFactor 2 and Arma 2, etc.
Thanks very much for any help!
Regards,
Rich.