Looking to get the most out of my current rig advise needed

[serenader]

<p>Currently my system is bordering 4 years old, but has been upgraded... </p><p>Current specifications:</p><p>Power Supply PC Power & Cooling 610</p><p>Abit AT8-32 939 motherboard </p><p>Video Card Ati 4870 2 Gig</p><p>Cpu AMD FX 55 2.6ghz</p><p>4 gig Mushkin Redline 3200 ram</p><p>80 and 120 gig sata Harddrives</p><p>Plenty of cooling provided by Lian li 1200 plus chassis</p><p>Win XP Pro 64bit</p><p>There is a couple cpu upgrades I could make.. being FX 60 or Opteron 165, I could possibly upgrade ram by raplacing it all with slower ecc server ram for a total of 8 gigs</p><p>I currently cannot max out EQ2 at a decent frame rate, would it help with a cpu upgrade, or should I just think about upgrading my whole system?</p>

[RafaelSmith]

<p><cite>serenader wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Currently my system is bordering 4 years old, but has been upgraded...</p><p>Current specifications:</p><p>Power Supply PC Power & Cooling 610</p><p>Abit AT8-32 939 motherboard</p><p>Video Card Ati 4870 2 Gig</p><p>Cpu AMD FX 55 2.6ghz</p><p>4 gig Mushkin Redline 3200 ram</p><p>80 and 120 gig sata Harddrives</p><p>Plenty of cooling provided by Lian li 1200 plus chassis</p><p>Win XP Pro 64bit</p><p>There is a couple cpu upgrades I could make.. being FX 60 or Opteron 165, I could possibly upgrade ram by raplacing it all with slower ecc server ram for a total of 8 gigs</p><p>I currently cannot max out EQ2 at a decent frame rate, would it help with a cpu upgrade, or should I just think about upgrading my whole system?</p></blockquote><p>Similar to the system I had before my current one....I had FX60 OCd to 3.0 and a 8800GTX.  </p><p>I was never able to play full maxed out but normally ran pretty good at High Quality.</p><p>EQ2 is all about raw CPU speed and memory. Im sure the game would run way better on a older single core 3ghz over a newer 2.5ghz Quad Core.</p><p>Even my current system.....9550 C2Quad (@3.4ghz), 8GB and ATI 5850 is not really able to run full MAX.</p>

[TSR-DanielH]

<p><cite>Gaylon@Mistmoore wrote:</cite></p><blockquote> Im sure the game would run way better on a older single core 3ghz over a newer 2.5ghz Quad Core.</blockquote><p>I don't find that to be the case for a few reasons.  The cache size has increased by a fairly large amount on modern processors and that tends to yield equivelent or better performance with a slightly lower CPU speed.  Plus, heat management has advanced significantly since the older days and now you can overclock to much higher levels without melting your chip.</p><p>Upgrading your processor will probably increase your performance but everything is is probably fine as is(besides maybe your motherboard if you're choosing a different socket type).  Increasing your RAM beyond 4gb isn't going to help EQ2 much if at all and your graphics card is generally fine.  Let us know if you have any further questions.</p>