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Just looking to see if I have an obvious bottleneck on my system... several years old now (obviously) but it runs all the games I play at high framerates at high settings.

Intel Core i5 2500

Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H

8 gigs of 800MHz RAM... Ripjaws G.Skill stuff. Sorry.

GTX 750 Ti by EVGA

 

Let me know if you need more info.. Thanks! I might be able to find more info on the RAM but I didn't feel it was worth turning my computer off.

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I don´t think so! But those G.Skills are pretty slow ones :/ Other than that I think you are okay but, what makes you think that you are having a bottleneck?

 

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3 minutes ago, ThatsNoMoon said:

Just looking to see if I have an obvious bottleneck on my system... several years old now (obviously) but it runs all the games I play at high framerates at high settings.

Intel Core i5 2500

Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H

8 gigs of 800MHz RAM... Ripjaws G.Skill stuff. Sorry.

GTX 750 Ti by EVGA

 

Let me know if you need more info.. Thanks! I might be able to find more info on the RAM but I didn't feel it was worth turning my computer off.

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Thanks for the fast reply!

Glad to hear there probably isn't a bottleneck, but I may look into new RAM. I'm just making sure my graphics card (which is MUCH newer than the other parts) isn't overkill for the rest of my rig.

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Just now, ThatsNoMoon said:

Thanks for the fast reply!

Glad to hear there probably isn't a bottleneck, but I may look into new RAM. I'm just making sure my graphics card (which is MUCH newer than the other parts) isn't overkill for the rest of my rig.

Your RAM is DDR3, so it's 800x2 which means it's 1600MHz DDR3. Things like CPU-Z show it as 800MHz, that's normal.

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The i5-2500 is still a fairly powerful CPU.

The GTX 750 Ti will be holding you back in graphically demanding games -- especially at higher detail settings.

 

I don't recall any DDR3 800 MHz RAM; are you sure it is 800 MHz, and not 800 MHz actual and 1600 MHz EFFECTIVE?

 

DDR (Double Data Rate) memory operates on the rising-edge and falling-edge of the clock cycle.

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the CPU is old but still going strong

 

the RAM is 1600MHz because it read as under DDR speed = Double Data Rate

 

you weakest link most likely is the GPU part

 

 

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Thanks for pointing out my mistake in the MHz of my RAM guys.. learn something new everyday! As ApolloX75 says, CPU-Z says it's 800MHz which means it's definitely 1600MHz.

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