Is my processor the problem with bad framerate?

[Jerochy]

Hey guys,

I recently won a compaq 6000 pro ssf in a silent auction for $28. It was never used so I couldn't pass it up even though I already have a xps 8500. When I got it, I knew it had 4gb of ram, a pentium e6600 processor, ect. What I didn't know is that it didn't have a graphics card.

So my friend helped me pick out the nvidia geforce gt 730 because it would fit the motherboard, (it didn't fit in the case as it is a sff, so I had to saw open the case a little for it to stick out) and when I loaded up wow to play on it, my framerate would spike when I would turn around and look into the distance, and then be at 40 fps at other times. 

There is also a problem with it that it becomes unresponsive ramdomly when I'm doing stuff in the start menu and then won't shutdown or ctrl+alt+delete and I have to figure that problem out. I thought it would be the ram, but it runs everything fine and then randomly becomes unresponsive. It doesn't freeze, everything just is kinda loading forever.

So to wrap things up, I want to turn this into a decent computer for light gaming so I can either hold on to it, or sell it and try to make some money back and I'm wondering if it's the graphics card holding it back.

When I typed in HP compaq 6000 processors on Google, I found the original options of processors you could choose from. Would these all work in the current (HP 3048h XU1)motherboard?

 

 

Intel Core 2 Quad Processors:

• Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 Processor (2.66-GHz, 4MB L2 cache, 1333 MHz FSB)

• Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 Processor (2.66-GHz, 6MB L2 cache, 1333 MHz FSB)

• Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Processor (2.83-GHz, 12MB L2 cache, 1333 MHz FSB)

• Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 Processor (3.0-GHz, 12MB L2 cache, 1333 MHz FSB

 

 

Thank you for any info you can give me as I'm very new to this haha.

[Tedster]

Welcome to the Forum.

 

I have a feeling that the processor isn't the bottleneck, and that it's just the GT 730 being too weak.

[Jambls]

It is the qraphics card that is the problem. The processor is not that great but is ok for gaming with  better gpu.

[DimasRMDO]

It's the GPU mate, you get more fps boost if you upgrade the GPU. You can upgrade the CPU but the fps increase isn't big.