Performance problem...

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Slinky25252

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My rig currently is an AMD64 3400+, 7600gt XXX with 1GB Kingston HyperX PC3200 duel channel ram, and a 350 watt motherboard. Now it's a pretty sweet rig (aside from the crappy PSU), but my games just don't seem to be running as fast as they should be. For example at max settings in 1280 by 960 resolution it runs at around 150 in close corridors and occasionally 100 average in larger areas but during gun battles and other areas it chugs down to around 30fps. World of Warcraft at max settings and the same resolution can barely manage 60fps and during heavy raiding times I get around 30fps or less. My graphics card should easily be able to handle this I figure, so what seems to be my issue. Is 1GB of ram choking my system? Thanks for any help.
 
..and like u said, the ram. I'd go buy ram before the psu since you can never go wrong with more ram :)
 
The gfx card is most likely thottling back due to inadequate power, but also remember you have a 7600GT, not a 7900GT, it isnt going to perform super great at max settings.
 
It's definitely the combination of a sort-of high resolution and the 7600gt...

If the GPU isn't getting enough power, I'm sure it would tell you...
 
Yea I don't think it's the PSU problem since the GPU isn't telling me it's not getting enough power. It's just that I've seen a few benchmarks and some high end games seem to be getting a lot more fps than I've ever seen. Maybe I should just deal with it and lower the settings (I hate compromising), or upgrade to 2GB of ram. Not exactly sure what to do atm though.
 
When you have things blowing up and 10 guys shooting... That's what happens...

But it seems games need more than 1 gig now a days...
 
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