Hello all. I have a 1.6GHz P4 willamette 478, 512 pc2100 DDR, GeForce4 Ti4600. I play games such as Farcry and Half-Life 2. I was wondering whether upgrading my system would increase my framerates in new games. My motherboard is ASUS P4B266LM exclusively made for Sony. I couldn't find any info on it. I was looking on a 2.2 ghz P4 400mhz fsb.

If your trying to increase the frame rates, wouldn't you want a better graphics card? The dumbest question is the one not asked

Definitely a new video card

Your graphics card is kinda low-end for these games. You didn't say how much mem was on it. You probably can't get much higher on the CPU. Minimum speed I would spend money on if the board can handle it would be 2.4Ghz.

Ti card has 128mb memory

Well your whole system is kinda gettin old, so i would suffer with it until you can afford a new mobo/cpu/video card. Also i belive the bottleneck on your system is the CPU. Ive heard a TI4600 can run HL2 on max details with not too many slowdowns. BUtta My Fries Abit NF7-s Athlon XP-M 2600+ @2.5ghz 200x12.5 1024mb PC3200 Geforce 6800

you didn't mention your budget, so i'll outline a buncha places you could upgrade: you've got a socket 478 mobo, which means you could upgrade to 3.2 or 3.4ghz. to save money, though, you could go with like a 2.4ghz or 2.8ghz. just make sure the FSB is 800mhz. then to match your new FSB, you'd want ram that's PC3200 (400mhz), though 512 should still be plenty. and yeah, definitely upgrade that video card. if you're wanting to stick with nvidia, go with something from the FX line (GeForceFX 5xxx) with at least 128MB of ram (don't get any LE editions). hope something here sounds do-able for you.