OMG the lag is unbearable!!
Skadi:
If you are trying to do it on the cheap, check out what is the max processor your mb can handle. Even better if it is a reasonably new socket type for further upgradability. I'm using an old AMD AM2 socket, but my mb will take newer AM2s and AM3s. As for video cards, I'm quite pleased with my Nvidia GTS250 1gb. Things are pretty, and it was AUD $170.
Edit: Can't say I've done much with core2, all the recent work I've done building kit is quadcore.
blackninja:
Thanks Skadi, lol I feel ashamed to ask, but I'm rather tired and out of it, but how would I check to see what the maximum processor my motherboard could handle? lol.
Buzzler:
@blackninja: Since the cache on your E2200 is cut back to a point where it really hurts, an E7400 might be up to twice as fast - 1.5 times as fast at the very least. If the lag right now is really so unbearable, this won't change your game perfomance into a fairy tale of smoothness though. There might be something else jamming the gearwheels.
Check the mark and name of your mainboard, and then look up the CPU support list on the manufacturer's web site.
It's hard to tell what you would consider a "cheap" video card, but I'd suggest a ATI Radeon HD5750. At any rate you'll have to check if your power supply is capable to fuel a new CPU and a new video card.
J. M. Pescado:
TS3 is not really cutting-edge graphics and likely will not require a graphics card upgrade, given that it is reported to run at 500 fps on newer cards to the point where they simply catch fire. Your problem appears to be CPU-bounded. An E7400 should be a reasonable-spec system that exceeds one of my test systems I test on, so it should be "enough"...until the expansions start, anyway.
Buzzler:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2009 October 18, 09:23:02
TS3 is not really cutting-edge graphics and likely will not require a graphics card upgrade, given that it is reported to run at 500 fps on newer cards to the point where they simply catch fire.
A Geforce 6600GT usually has only 128MB VRAM, and I doubt this is enough for TS3. And a video card isn't allowed to overheat no matter what. If it does, it's just crap.
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