New Video card low fps

[erikmro]

I just bought a nvidia 7600 gs oc 512mb and im getting the same fps 20-40 at (1680x1050) as i was before playing cs:s. any ideas??

[Jimmy420]

What was your old card, and whats the rest of your system specs?

[erikmro]

old card was ati 9600xt 256mb
my specs are: P4 (2.4ghz)
1.25 gb ram
asus p4s533 mother board
450w power supply

[Colmaca]

I would think that you cpu is the bottleneck there and after so much you won't see much inprovement in Fps no mater what card you use.

example:
I had a 3.06 and a 9700pro put in a 7800gs and seen small gain in FPS, upgraded to a E6300 and same card I get now about 50% increase in FPS,well maybe not 50

[erikmro]

ohn tru i think im gunna get a new duo core one with mother board but thats later

[erikmro]

so the duo cores are the way to go for high fps

[Colmaca]

Faster cpu and faster video card is always the way to go It all comes down to how much $$$$ you have to burn The never-ending cycle

[erikmro]

it think i know a place wher i can get a p4 dual core with mother board agp x8 for $250 so i might look into that

[Colmaca]

I got a mobo with AGPand PCI:express,DDR and DDR2 ram slots and a E6300 for $340 Au$ Thats about $270 US sold my old P4 and mobo ON ebay for $260 so my hole upgrade was only $80 aussie $

newegg has cheap parts if you live in US

[cHiNgY1788]

though id rather you get the Intel Core 2 Duo
which is not the Intel Pentium 4 or D or what ever

the Core 2 Duo performs significantly faster than the Intel Pentium series

[erikmro]

i see what i can get but fro sure its going to be dual core

[l337_GuY]

If your gona get like a Pentium D, or whatever, better to go single core. Single core's will play older games faster than a dual core, as the older games arent multi threaded and only run good on the top end dual core's like core 2 duo's. A single core Athlon 64 will be faster than most dual core pentium D's

[erikmro]

tru i might as well get a core 2 duo then