It really depends upon the game you are playing... You would see a huge
difference in a true 3D game like Unreal Tournament 2003... But games
that are 3rd person often don't use a lot of the processing power on
modern GPU units.  Also many real time strategy games slow down because
of AI computations rather than screen drawing.  For a game like Dungeon
Siege you'll see much more increase in performance from  CPU/Memory...
You have plenty of RAM though.

HTH

Eric Wertman



       How dependant is processor speed for video card function? I have
an AMD K6-2+ running at 550Mhz and went from an NVidia Riva 16MB PCI
card to an ATI Radeon 7500 64Mb PCI card with no increase in framerate
or performance running Dungeon Siege. According to the specs needed for
the game, I meet the minimum requirements for processor speed (333Mhz).
Is the card just a non-performer? I thought it would have been at least
a step up. It's not life ending, but it would be nice to know if the
card is worth transferring to a newer system, eventually. The HDD is a
30GB Maxtor 5400RPM (UDMA66) and I have 64+256Mb of PC133 memory. Thanks
all.

Chris Ryan
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