Many of my games run pretty slowly; F-Zero GX, for example is prob. 50% or less (though it's not the framerate that bothers me, it's the slower than real-world progression of time). I consider my PC pretty good, but the graphics processor is really bad because I'm using an integrated graphics processor (IGP), so I'm pretty sure that's the bottleneck instead of my CPU, memory, or hard drive.
But, it'd be pointless to get a nice graphics card if the bottleneck is somewhere else, so is there some test I can do to be sure?
My system:
AMD Athlon II x3 450 3.2GHz
8 GB DDR3 1333MHz
SATA II 3.0Gb/s 7200RPM HDD
AMD Radeon HD 4250 with 128MB DDR3 1333MHz sideport memory
But, it'd be pointless to get a nice graphics card if the bottleneck is somewhere else, so is there some test I can do to be sure?
My system:
AMD Athlon II x3 450 3.2GHz
8 GB DDR3 1333MHz
SATA II 3.0Gb/s 7200RPM HDD
AMD Radeon HD 4250 with 128MB DDR3 1333MHz sideport memory