hey guys/gals im running a sempron 2800/1 gb ram/radeon x850xt and man...that cpu just cant keep up with the gfx card. but anyway, i tryin to hold off buyin a new cpu at the moment cause basically i got no money.lol. but just wonderin is there any things you can do to increase the performance of this cpu?? thanks heaps -locky

Motherboard make ?? Socket type ?? Memory type/speed ??

I guess you could overclock, but the Sempron 2800 shouldn't be bottlenecking an x850xt too much. This a socket A or 754 sempron? My Super P3: Pentium III-S 1.4GHz @ 1.58GHz, 512K L2 X800XT All-in-wonder, overclocked to 580/600. 250GB HD 2 gigs of PC2100 RAM QDI Advance 12 mobo, this baby rocks! SB Audigy 2

its a socket 754. ddr400 mem. cheap ass gigabyte k8-triton

also i thought that that cpu would serverly bottleneck my card..

The problem with your 754 Sempron64 is its 256KB L2 cache. However, it could even have been worse because there are some versions of the same 754 Sempron64' sold pitifully with half as much L2. And its overall clock isn't nearly going to be able to pickup that slack either @ 1400MHz for the Paris & 1600MHz if you've got a Palermo.......take this as a lesson. It is not uncommon for folks to overlook the L2 on chips when upgrading their processor, eventually this catches with them later down the road, unfortunately nothing can be done to help that, since you can't raise the L2 like you could the clock frequency. How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

I just posted this reply to the question about the 3700+. I modified it to fit your CPU. This will only work if you have a decent overclockable board, preferrably with an nForce3 chipset: Try the following BIOS settings (the terminology for your board may be different) CPU Freq = 250MHz CPU multi = 8x HT multi = 3x RAM Freq = DDR333 CPU voltage = ?? (raise as necessary) AGP Freq = 67MHz PCI Freq = 33MHz Spread Spectrum = disabled Cool 'n Quiet = disabled If successful, the above settings will run your CPU at 2.0GHz with the PC3200 RAM at approx 208MHz