Alittle pc help

[Tarek Bane]

Could someone give alittle advise on my machine spec to see if I can get some more out of it. I currently have all the settings on low and Nvida set to high performance, im getting anywhere from 40/80fps running about and about 20/30 in combat and 2fps in sieges... I have done the tricks inside of darkfall settings and it helped alittle but was wondering if anything else could be done, many thanks. (i hope the info below is enough)

CPU-Z TXT Report
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Binaries
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CPU-Z version 1.56

Processors
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Number of processors 1
Number of threads 2

APICs
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Processor 0
-- Core 0
-- Thread 0 0
-- Core 1
-- Thread 0 1

Processors Information
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Processor 1 ID = 0
Number of cores 2 (max 2)
Number of threads 2 (max 2)
Name Intel Pentium D 950
Codename Presler
Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.40GHz
Package (platform ID) Socket 775 LGA (0x2)
CPUID F.6.4
Extended CPUID F.6
Core Stepping C1
Technology 65 nm
Core Speed 2400.7 MHz
Multiplier x FSB 12.0 x 200.1 MHz
Rated Bus speed 800.2 MHz
Stock frequency 3400 MHz
Instructions sets MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, EM64T, VT-x
L1 Data cache 2 x 16 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
Trace cache 2 x 12 Kuops, 8-way set associative
L2 cache 2 x 2048 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
FID/VID Control yes
FID range 14.0x - 17.0x
VID range 1.116 V - 1.260 V




Chipset
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Northbridge Intel i945P rev. A1
Southbridge Intel 82801GB (ICH7/R) rev. A1
Graphic Interface PCI-Express
PCI-E Link Width x16
PCI-E Max Link Width x16
Memory Type DDR2
Memory Size 2048 MBytes
Channels Dual
Memory Frequency 266.7 MHz (3:4)
CAS# latency (CL) 4.0
RAS# to CAS# delay (tRCD) 4
RAS# Precharge (tRP) 4
Cycle Time (tRAS) 11
Bank Cycle Time (tRC) 15
MCHBAR I/O Base address 0x0FED14000
MCHBAR I/O Size 4096
MCHBAR registers

Memory SPD
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DIMM # 1
SMBus address 0x50
Memory type DDR2
Module format Regular UDIMM
Manufacturer (ID) Samsung (CE00000000000000)
Size 512 MBytes
Max bandwidth PC2-4300 (266 MHz)
Part number M3 78T6553CZ3-CD5
Serial number F33A482F
Manufacturing date Week 28/Year 06
Number of banks 1
Data width 64 bits
Correction None
Nominal Voltage 1.80 Volts
EPP no
XMP no
JEDEC timings table CL-tRCD-tRP-tRAS-tRC @ frequency
JEDEC #1 3.0-3-3-8-11 @ 200 MHz
JEDEC #2 4.0-4-4-11-15 @ 266 MHz
JEDEC #3 5.0-4-4-11-15 @ 266 MHz

DIMM # 2
SMBus address 0x51
Memory type DDR2
Module format Regular UDIMM
Manufacturer (ID) Samsung (CE00000000000000)
Size 512 MBytes
Max bandwidth PC2-4300 (266 MHz)
Part number M3 78T6553CZ3-CD5
Serial number F33A47BF
Manufacturing date Week 28/Year 06
Number of banks 1
Data width 64 bits
Correction None
Nominal Voltage 1.80 Volts
EPP no
XMP no
JEDEC timings table CL-tRCD-tRP-tRAS-tRC @ frequency
JEDEC #1 3.0-3-3-8-11 @ 200 MHz
JEDEC #2 4.0-4-4-11-15 @ 266 MHz
JEDEC #3 5.0-4-4-11-15 @ 266 MHz

DIMM # 3
SMBus address 0x52
Memory type DDR2
Module format Regular UDIMM
Manufacturer (ID) Samsung (CE00000000000000)
Size 512 MBytes
Max bandwidth PC2-4300 (266 MHz)
Part number M3 78T6553CZ3-CD5
Serial number F33A47BE
Manufacturing date Week 28/Year 06
Number of banks 1
Data width 64 bits
Correction None
Nominal Voltage 1.80 Volts
EPP no
XMP no
JEDEC timings table CL-tRCD-tRP-tRAS-tRC @ frequency
JEDEC #1 3.0-3-3-8-11 @ 200 MHz
JEDEC #2 4.0-4-4-11-15 @ 266 MHz
JEDEC #3 5.0-4-4-11-15 @ 266 MHz

DIMM # 4
SMBus address 0x53
Memory type DDR2
Module format Regular UDIMM
Manufacturer (ID) Samsung (CE00000000000000)
Size 512 MBytes
Max bandwidth PC2-4300 (266 MHz)
Part number M3 78T6553CZ3-CD5
Serial number F33A48A9
Manufacturing date Week 28/Year 06
Number of banks 1
Data width 64 bits
Correction None
Nominal Voltage 1.80 Volts
EPP no
XMP no
JEDEC timings table CL-tRCD-tRP-tRAS-tRC @ frequency
JEDEC #1 3.0-3-3-8-11 @ 200 MHz
JEDEC #2 4.0-4-4-11-15 @ 266 MHz
JEDEC #3 5.0-4-4-11-15 @ 266 MHz


Hardware Monitors
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Hardware monitor SMSC DME1737
Voltage 0 5.00 Volts [0xC0] (+5VTR)
Voltage 1 1.19 Volts [0x65] (CPU VCORE)
Voltage 2 3.33 Volts [0xC2] (ATX +3.3V)
Voltage 3 5.08 Volts [0xC3] (ATX +5V)
Voltage 4 12.17 Volts [0xC2] (ATX +12V)
Temperature 1 36°C (96°F) [0x24] (Internal)
Temperature 2 64°C (147°F) [0x40] (Diode 2)
Fan 0 2310 RPM [0x922] (FANIN0)
Fan 1 1466 RPM [0xE63] (FANIN1)
Register space SMBus, base address = 0x0500
SMBus request channel 0x0, address 0x2E

Hardware monitor ACPI
Temperature 0 40°C (104°F) [0xC3C] (THRM)

Hardware monitor NVIDIA I/O
Temperature 0 53°C (127°F) [0x35] (TMPIN0)

Hardware monitor NVIDIA NVAPI
Voltage 0 0.00 Volts [0x0] (VIN0)
Temperature 0 53°C (127°F) [0x35] (TMPIN0)
Fan PWM 0 100 pc [0x64] (FANPWMIN0)



Graphics
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Number of adapters 1

Graphic APIs
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API NVIDIA I/O
API NVIDIA NVAPI

Display Adapters
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Display adapter 0
Name NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
Revision A1
Codename G96
Technology 65 nm
Memory size 1024 MB
Memory bus width 128 bits
PCI device bus 1 (0x1), device 0 (0x0), function 0 (0x0)
Vendor ID 0x10DE (0x19F1)
Model ID 0x0640 (0x0943)
Performance Level 0
Core clock 575.0 MHz
Shader clock 1438.0 MHz
Memory clock 400.0 MHz

[Jaidyn Sothenic]

A new GFX card will do the trick, your CPU is fine to run DF and 4 gig of DDR2 ram is fine as well.

Also what windows are you using?

[Tarek Bane]

Im using windows 7 64bit ... i only have 2gig of DDR2

do you think if I had 4gig of ram it would boost me to say 150fps? or do i need that and a GFX card?

thanks for taking a look thou

[Jaidyn Sothenic]

ahh sorry I read it as 4 gig

Well yes you would get a huge boost in performance as if Win7 is anything like Vista when running then yeah more ram

Now I know WIN7 is a lot better than Vista but it still requires a good amount of ram to run. Just getting more ram would help loads.
Now your GFX card is okay to run DF but not for high fps.
You got an amount that you wish to spend for upgrades?

[Tarek Bane]

Not really sure on a amount... I have a HP desktop and Sarek tells me alot of parts wont work with it, is it worth spending £200/£300 on it? will that sort of money get me the fps i would like to have or should i just save up 1k and get a whole new machine that will last for a few good years to come? was looking on that site Sarek got his from and i could get a really nice machine there for about 1k quad core and 460 GFX card, 8gig of ram...

I think even spending £500 on my machine im never going to get it half as good... the only thing that will stay the same is the case, lol

or am i wrong and £200 will boost my performance to the 150+fps mark and 50+ in sieges?
Is my board fast enough to cope with the latest ram chips and Gfx cards...

[Jaidyn Sothenic]

I would rather save up the 1k and get an incredible PC that will last you another 3-4 years.

[Tarek Bane]

Yea I think your right... thanks for helping thou..

Delete this thread if you like to keep the site tidy

[Jaidyn Sothenic]

Nah its fine mate, we don't usually delete threads unless needed

[Fornax Eridanu]

Tarek, you have a Pentium-4 at 2400MHz. You can consider that as a bad thing.
your motherboard will however accept Core2Duo-CPU's but not the latest ones. You might want to look on your local Ebay-equivalent for a 20,- C2D E6600 or so, that will make your current setup a whole new machine already.

You might want to look into an upgrade to your graphicscard also. A NVidia GTS250 (new around 75,- pounds (last year, now fased out), look for one on ebay) or a 9800/8800 (Basically the same) or obviously a GTX260 (Also 100,- tops new) will do a good job along with the CPU upgrade.

2GB of ram will do fine for now, but swapping out the 4x512MB which runs at 266MHz for 2x2048 (4GB total, running at 400MHz) will give you some improvement. CPU is more urgent though.

Oh wait, it's an HP-machine. Might indeed be tricky to upgrade the videocard but the E6600 CPU-upgrade will 98% surely work just fine. If the case is pretty standard (not a small office machine) you could just replace the motherboard with a cheap MSI one. Or look on Ebay for a complete computer for around 150-200 pounds.