So what is this comp's bottleneck?!?!?!?!?!

Your CPU is useless. 2.2GHz of slow quad cores is not conducive to gaming. It will not push the GPU which is not being utilized properly.

ccatlett1984 said:

Frostmourne said:

Your CPU is useless. 2.2GHz of slow quad cores is not conducive to gaming. It will not push the GPU which is not being utilized properly.

This coming from a guy with a phenom logo as his avitar. I wonder if your computer support faster ram? You are running ddr-800, if the board supports ddr-1066 you would have a large increase in transfer speed of in-ram data to the video card.

Read the following thread:
Bottleknecks Help On Understanding Them - Overclockers Forums

The laptop processor in my system specs is better than this slow quad-core - games need high clock speed combined with cache and architecture - and 2.2GHz will choke any modern game. As for transfer speed, that will be negligible, quantity counts for RAM, not speed (as much).

ccatlett1984 said:

I beg to differ on pure hertz being the defining spec. I happen to run close to that setup, and have no lag issues at all. I only play on lan servers, but my fps never drops below 60.

Lan is different to Crysis - and I did mention cache+architecture. Clock speed is important along with these two for games. Have you tried Crysis on high at 1920x1080?

ccatlett1984 said:

Frostmourne said:

ccatlett1984 said:

I beg to differ on pure hertz being the defining spec. I happen to run close to that setup, and have no lag issues at all. I only play on lan servers, but my fps never drops below 60.

Lan is different to Crysis - and I did mention cache+architecture. Clock speed is important along with these two for games. Have you tried Crysis on high at 1920x1080?

The OP is playing CSS, did you pull Crysis out of a hat? CSS is not a comp killer like crysis. And yes i have tried crysis on high, with my two cards in crossfire i was able to keep ~18fps min, but I know that my hardware isnt up to playing it maxed.

End this - not much can play Crysis maxed - and high is the second highest option. I hold that a low clock speed is a bottleneck even on old games like CSS.