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| Thread ID: 83460 | 2007-10-03 00:18:00 | On any game, no matter what resolution or whether settings on max or low fps is same | Fishy (10540) | Press F1 |
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| 597349 | 2007-10-03 07:29:00 | I well have to agree with PCtek a celeron is not overly brilliant for playing games. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 597350 | 2007-10-03 09:07:00 | Yeah, Ernemax is a real good brand. Probably go for a 400w minimum, 450w would be a bit better. Almost anythings better than what you've got now. Perhaps future proof? Get something a bit bigger, (550w+) if you want to upgrade in the future, thats one component you won't need to upgrade. Even if it's not the PSU, an upgrade can't hurt. Thats horrible advice! Granted the Hyena is a piece of **** but you should explain that to the OP before you go making hasty recommendations. Fishy is yet to provide any proof that the Hyena PSU is the cause of his original problem, not all posters have the money to go out and replace hardware based on whimsical advice from people on this forum. You should have clearly stated that you recommend getting a new PSU because the Hyena is a heap of crap. If you decide that you cant justify a new PSU fishy i wouldn't buy anything less than 500w, as Agent_24 has already shown 400w should be enough but the extra 100w wont cost that much more and give you a lil more headroom. Also consider a Silverstone PSU, they're just as good as Enermex and in many cases cheaper, they do a non modular 400w for $80. Personally I've got a Enermex 500w Liberty and its a fantastic PSU I'd never buy non modular again but sometime the budget is more important. |
Pete O'Neil (6584) | ||
| 597351 | 2007-10-03 19:34:00 | I'm never going to have the latest and greatest hardware because I simply cannot afford it . So I think I will go wit the 400W Liberty because at the moment 400W will be enough . And the next upgrade i'm wanting to do is a new monitor . So that doesn't use the PSU . Basically, $50 extra is alot, and I can't afford it . I would fork it out if the extra 100W was a must have but it's not . Thanks all the same for the advice Pete :thumbs: |
Fishy (10540) | ||
| 597352 | 2007-10-03 19:38:00 | Yeah, well you don't need modular, but the non-modular enermaxes are kinda a rip off for what you get Of course you don't need enermax, they just happen to be one of the good brands www.xtremesystems.org Anything in Tier 2 should do what you want (saying that, Tier 3 would probably be fine as well) |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 597353 | 2007-10-03 20:08:00 | Granted the Hyena is a piece of **** Fishy is yet to provide any proof that the Hyena PSU is the cause of his original problem, . Yep. Rubbish PSU, nasty habit of blowing up and killing everything in the PC. But I've never seen a PSU cause bad performance with games. Not enough power to the graphics card will cause a complaint immediately on entering windows, but not cause the game to be lame. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 597354 | 2007-10-03 21:07:00 | I'm sure if you did ignore the warning about the GFX underpowered, and tried to play anyway you'd have problems. I had my first 6600GT (AGP) tell me the card wasn't getting enough power(when it was) and talking to some people they said they'd had lag when it was not getting enough power. Now I recall my AGP 6600GT had a separate connector for extra power. You do have this plugged into a dedicated line from the PSU, right? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 597355 | 2007-10-04 00:43:00 | I bought the 400W Liberty this morning. Amazing. I am so glad I bought it. It's so quiet. I can't believe I lived with that loud piece of crap Hyena for so long. Sadly. No change in FPS. And yes Agent 24 the power is plugged in. I don't think it works if it's not? So. Is the only other explanation that my Celly D is complete and utter crap and it is bottlenecking? I'm really hoping someone says no here... |
Fishy (10540) | ||
| 597356 | 2007-10-04 00:52:00 | Well I know I can get better than 15FPS on my old Celeron 900mhz, like I said. I highly doubt it's your CPU. Must be something else, but that PC should be performing way better than you describe it 2GB ram is good, just make sure it's not full of background programs (though I'm sure you've already checked that) |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 597357 | 2007-10-04 00:55:00 | Yeah i've checked that. I normally get around 30 on dust2 (which is still bs) but in firefights it gets down to 15. But the thing that bothered me was that no matter what settings it's on I never get higher. Like I get the same fps whether all the settings are on the lowest or maxed out. It's really odd. |
Fishy (10540) | ||
| 597358 | 2007-10-04 01:01:00 | Does CSS have a FPS cap option somewhere? | Sherman (9181) | ||
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