I get frame drops.....but why?

[Samin]

My cpu is Pentium dual core e5400 @2.70 ghz.my ram is 6 gb ddr3 and i have a gpu which is Sapphire amd Radeon r7 250 1gb gddr5 which i bought recently.But the problem is i get so much frame drops in games like "cod mw2".how can I fix this???

[LamoidZombieDog]

1 minute ago, Samin said:

My cpu is Pentium dual core e5400 @2.70 ghz.my ram is 6 gb ddr3 and i have a gpu which is Sapphire amd Radeon r7 250 1gb gddr5 which i bought recently.But the problem is i get so much frame drops in games like "cod mw2".how can I fix this???

Thanks for posting 2 of the exact same post.

 

your running a pentium with a gddr5 GPU. probably a bottleneck assuming that gpu is much newer then the pentium.

[LamoidZombieDog]

3 minutes ago, Samin said:

My cpu is Pentium dual core e5400 @2.70 ghz.my ram is 6 gb ddr3 and i have a gpu which is Sapphire amd Radeon r7 250 1gb gddr5 which i bought recently.But the problem is i get so much frame drops in games like "cod mw2".how can I fix this???

Thanks for posting 2 of the exact same post.

 

your running a pentium with a gddr5 GPU. probably a bottleneck assuming that gpu is much newer then the pentium.

[Samin]

Just now, LamoidZombieDog said:

Thanks for posting 2 of the exact same post.

 

your running a pentium with a gddr5 GPU. probably a bottleneck assuming that gpu is much newer then the pentium.

Ohhh

[PopsicleHustler]

Dual core CPU, 6 gigs of RAM.. Thats extremely underpowered even in 2015 terms.

[Wh0_Am_1]

This is just a guess, but I would wager that the culprit is probably your aging e5400 having difficulty both running the game and handling windows background processes.

[LamoidZombieDog]

1 minute ago, Samin said:

Ohhh

yeah, basic stuff.

 

a 2007 CPU with a 2013 GPU, isnt going to mix. PLUS, both of those are shit by todays standards anyways. so you wouldnt get good FPS regardless 

[Wh0_Am_1]

1 minute ago, PopsicleHustler said:

Dual core CPU, 6 gigs of RAM.. Thats extremely underpowered even in 2015 terms.

Not to mention that it is a Wolfdale processor.

[Wh0_Am_1]

1 minute ago, LamoidZombieDog said:

yeah, basic stuff.

 

a 2007 CPU with a 2013 GPU, isnt going to mix. PLUS, both of those are shit by todays standards anyways. so you wouldnt get good FPS regardless 

Well the game is from 2009 and the CPU is actually from 2009 as well, even still though.

[Kenpachi1985]

That CPU will bottleneck pretty much EVERYTHING you try to play. It has only 2 cores with 2 threads and only clocks at 2.7 Ghz. Your GPU is also not suitable for ANY modern games since 2013 or so.

You need a completely new system if you intend to play games.

[FloRolf]

What motherboard do you have? 

You can probably throw that little dual core out and replace it with a Q6600 quad core. These things are dirt cheap (literally $15) and will dramatically increase your performance. 

After that IMHO you could even get a nicer GPU. 

 

Edit: but then again, please don't expect any miracles to happen with a new CPU. That GPU is still very very weak and you'll not get anything better than 720p low and everything turned off out of it. 

[Ralf]

44 minutes ago, LamoidZombieDog said:

your running a pentium with a gddr5 GPU. probably a bottleneck assuming that gpu is much newer then the pentium. a 2007 CPU with a 2013 GPU, isnt going to mix.

Is this the reason why people ask if they need DDR5 motherboard for GDDR5 gpus?

HD5850 from 2009 has GDDR5 and it's stronger compared to OPs gpu from 2013, E5400 is from 2009.

yeah, basic stuff.

[EasonIDontKnowAnything]

1 hour ago, Samin said:

My cpu is Pentium dual core e5400 @2.70 ghz.my ram is 6 gb ddr3 and i have a gpu which is Sapphire amd Radeon r7 250 1gb gddr5 which i bought recently.But the problem is i get so much frame drops in games like "cod mw2".how can I fix this???

You need to upgrade the CPU. 

 

and your GPU.

 

you'll also probably need to upgrade your PSU for both of those.

[LogicalDrm]

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