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is it my processor or my graphics /video card?
i just bought need for speed most wanted. game is choppy and lags. i have a quad pro. amd 9500 pro. at 2.2 ghz. with a radeon ati 2400 video card. game calls for a duo 2.4 ghz or athlon x2.7 ghz. w/2gb ram. which i have 3gb ram. video calls for ati radeon 3000 to 6000 series card or geforce 8,9,200 up to 500 series card. wat do u think my prob. is. it is a high end graphics game. i have everything set as low as it will go. i am also running w/vista unfortunately. thanks
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- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
It's totally your graphics card.
Just shell out $100 and grab a Radeon HD 7750. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...
- C-ManLv 78 years ago
Both your CPU and GPU are old & slow by today's standards, but the graphics card is worse, that's the big bottleneck.
If your computer can accept a PCI-Express x16 card, I suggest at MINIMUM a GeForce GT 430. Preferably something faster like a GT 440.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...
A GTS 450 or GTX 550 Ti would be even nicer, but those would probably require upgrading your computer's power supply. There's no point in buying anything higher-end than a GTX 550 Ti, because your old CPU would just bottleneck it.
Unfortunately your motherboard is so old that newer graphics cards may not work. Some really old motherboards with original PCI-E x16 slots are incompatible with version 2.1 graphics cards, you can only install version 2.0 or earlier cards. So that means going with Nvidia, because all of AMD's recent cards are version 2.1 or later.
