I bought following new parts in my sig: mobo, cpu, cpu cooler, case, ram, harddrive, power supply and acer monitor for a gaming rig. Overclocked my i7 to 4.2Ghz, yet lagging in BF2BC, medium settings, lagging in Napoleon Total War. I know my graphics card 275GTX is not the best, I plan on upgrading that to the new Fermi or 5970 but kinda dissapointing that I spent this much money on hardware and my performance is only slightly better than my previous
e8400 rig in BF2BC.
Granted performance is better in some games like TF2, but overall I was expecting more for the money. I guess this goes to show that a weakness in the system (GPU) hurts the whole rig and GPU is the most important part of gaming performance. Maybe I was expecting too much out of a quad? Overclocking and quads overrated for gaming?
e8400 rig in BF2BC.
Granted performance is better in some games like TF2, but overall I was expecting more for the money. I guess this goes to show that a weakness in the system (GPU) hurts the whole rig and GPU is the most important part of gaming performance. Maybe I was expecting too much out of a quad? Overclocking and quads overrated for gaming?