Old system bottleneck

Thylacine · 12-05-12, 11:31 AM

Greetings.
I'm hoping that someone can give me a suggestion about my pc and possible upgrade/replacement.
System is a Phenom II x2 550BE @ 3.1Mhz and 4GB DDR2-400 (5-5-5-18) with a Radeon HD 4770 on XP SP2.
The CPU can be unlocked to an x4 and overclocked to about 4Mhz, and the GPU increased by about 30%.
SH5 is all I run game-wise, so the question is: Where is the bottleneck in this arrangement, and will overclocking and unlocking cores give me a noticeable improvement in this simulation (run with Sober's mod-list in a 24" WS monitor)?. Can I get some more life out of the thing, or am I just wasting my time fiddling with it for minimal gains?
I suppose it's about time to upgrade the OS to Win7 as well, so this is a possibility also.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,

ed

12-05-12, 11:31 AM	#1
Thylacine Watch Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Australia Posts: 30 Downloads: 513 Uploads: 0	Old system bottleneck Greetings. I'm hoping that someone can give me a suggestion about my pc and possible upgrade/replacement. System is a Phenom II x2 550BE @ 3.1Mhz and 4GB DDR2-400 (5-5-5-18) with a Radeon HD 4770 on XP SP2. The CPU can be unlocked to an x4 and overclocked to about 4Mhz, and the GPU increased by about 30%. SH5 is all I run game-wise, so the question is: Where is the bottleneck in this arrangement, and will overclocking and unlocking cores give me a noticeable improvement in this simulation (run with Sober's mod-list in a 24" WS monitor)?. Can I get some more life out of the thing, or am I just wasting my time fiddling with it for minimal gains? I suppose it's about time to upgrade the OS to Win7 as well, so this is a possibility also. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, ed __________________ I'd rather a bottle in font of me than a frontal lobotomy Last edited by Thylacine; 12-05-12 at 12:27 PM.