Why are all my games going slow with good hardware?

Question

i just bought a nvidia geforce an asus motherboard with a pentium 4 2.61 processor and 640 megs of ram and my games are still playin slow lagging and slowing what can i do to speed things up already tried turning graphics down and useing optimised driver

Answer 1

Good hardware? I don't think so. What kind of gforce card did you get?

Answer 2

Which GeForce card do you have? Just because it's a GeForce doesn't mean it's automatically a good card for gaming. I have a GeForce 8800GT, but my 8500GT wasn't nearly as fast.  Also, a P4 isn't what it used to be.  Dual core processors are where its at now.  My P4 wasn't cutting it anymore, nor was my 768MB RAM.  I play World of Warcraft and it took replacing my comupter to get up to much better framerates/speeds.  If you can't afford a new computer (to get a new processor) I'd recommend bumping up to 2GB of RAM and looking into a better video card (the 8800 series rocks!).  

Answer 3

well its depends upon the series of card u bought because 5 or 6 series doesn't support the latest  games and also the size of your RAM is important as u need at least 512MB RAM for most of the new games.

Answer 4

we need to know what types of hardware you have. an nVidia geforce tells us nothing.

in a nutshell, you need more RAM. I would also guess that you bought a new GPU without upgrading your powers supply and it under powered to run the system. I would also guess that you tried to put a PCIe 2.0 card in a 1.0 system...

EDIT

also your hardware was 'good' about five years ago...