goosey3131 Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Hi all, Not sure if this is the right place, move as you wish if it is not. My PC used to be quite fast for FM so I am looking to give the beast it a little boost. Basically I am wanting to improve the general speed FM and at the same time use more leagues etc. I currently only load the English leagues (to L2) on a large database which creates only 14,000 players. My PC specs are: OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Processor Pentium® Dual-Core CPU E5400 @ 2.70GHz, 2700 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s) BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG, 05/05/2009 Locale United Kingdom Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB Total Physical Memory 3.25 GB Available Physical Memory 915 MB Total Virtual Memory 6.49 GB Available Virtual Memory 3.01 GB Page File Space 3.25 GB NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Hard Drive: 603gb of 698gb free Anything else you need let me know Thanks in advance Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
haunted1234 Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 buy a new pc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sc503 Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Could try a solid state harddrive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
goosey3131 Posted January 6, 2013 Author Share Posted January 6, 2013 "buy a new pc"....and what are your reasons for this? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
haunted1234 Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 "buy a new pc"....and what are your reasons for this? because the game is heavily dependend on the CPU, and your CPU is quite weak, theres no other hardware piece you could add or exchange in your PC that would make any difference. and be aware of the upcoming "try to install game booster" and other software comments, it will not make a difference. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
goosey3131 Posted January 6, 2013 Author Share Posted January 6, 2013 Interesting, I have been tempted to build my own PC recently but just need to raise the cash, FM is the sole reason I have my desktop PC. Then someone swayed me to get an SSD, seems to be six of one and half a dozen of the other. How about if I overclock the CPU? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pafeu Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 You would definitely feel the difference in processing speed but this CPU 'is showing his age' as your assistant manager would say. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
haunted1234 Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Interesting, I have been tempted to build my own PC recently but just need to raise the cash, FM is the sole reason I have my desktop PC. Then someone swayed me to get an SSD, seems to be six of one and half a dozen of the other. How about if I overclock the CPU? that might sound like an idea, but you would probably need a new CPU cooling device, which would cost around 30€ or so.. would maybe get you maybe 0,5 or maybe 1 star in speed on your current database, nothing major Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
goosey3131 Posted January 6, 2013 Author Share Posted January 6, 2013 Hmmmm! Might be a short term solution whilst I save some money. Food for thought, disappointing but thanks for your opinions guys. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ltdamn Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 SSD really only makes a noticeable difference in loading/saving from what I've experienced. Haven't really seen any increase in game flow speed because of it, though I rarely get any lag between screens anymore, but that is more likely because of the CPU I upgraded. I overhauled my entire machine last year purely to get more grunt for FM. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welshace Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 SSD is a bad idea for FM... will do next to nothing. Overclocking that particular cpu won't do a whole lot either I feel.. I'd say, stick with it until you can save for a new machine... you'd just be throwing money away otherwise really.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
0gris Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 "buy a new pc"....and what are your reasons for this? You might not like it, but that's how it works. PC's get outdated in 6 months. Your 5 year old machine is much MUCH weaker than what you get today on the same budget as you had then. It's rough, but when it comes to PC's you're rarely going to be able to upgrade slightly unless you do it constantly. Maybe you could find a better CPU, but CPU's for that socket haven't been produced for 4 years now. Do some general upkeep. Defrag, run some malware adware and virus checks, uninstall unneeded programs, clean up the startup program list. Or just reformat if you want to. These two options might give you a slight boost, but don't count on it making a big difference. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AytchMan Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Minimize the detail level. This will allow more leagues and a bigger database but, of course, at the expense of some accuracy in match statistics. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
goosey3131 Posted January 13, 2013 Author Share Posted January 13, 2013 Was already as low as possible! I will start up a new thread in a sec but my next question is what desktop/laptop should I buy if I have a budget of £300? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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