Game Slowing Down

[gamerX1990]

I was actually thinking about overclocking, but at the moment, it runs at 48-50 degrees celcius, and while emulating a PS2 game, runs at roughly 53-55. So if I wanted to overclock, I'd have to get a better cooling system in, that's for sure. And it is the Phenom I, unfortunately... but when I was building this computer, I was on a budget. Found out that the motherboard had the onboard HD4200 graphics for roughly $80 (with rebate) and bought it. My system does play WoW decently (and other games as well) but I didn't think that the PS2 emulator would require so much.

I was also thinking about an HD5670 before I saw this post and was looking at an MSI Radeon HD5670 with 1GB DDR3 that's 128-bit. And it's $60 with MRB, and I don't going $10 over what I'm willing to pay. Would that be a better choice than the one Rezard recommended? If there's anything I'm kind of noob at, it's definitely the difference between graphics cards

For being slightly over the price of the GT 240 I would take the HD 5670, fairly more powerful. Memory bandwidth isn't everything and AMD's site says the 5670 is GDDR5, not GDDR3 or 5 just 5.

[Rezard]

Actually, memory bandwidth is a very big thing.
Fillrates are about equal, otherwise.
(You must have missed my edit on the HD 5670 having two available data rate configurations)

[bmwboi]

Will the GT240 be compatible with my AMD processor? I always thought that ATI only worked with AMD processors while nVidia only worked with Intel processors. Thanks for the help guys, I appreciate it

[Rezard]

Any of them will work together (AMD, ATI, Intel and nVidia).

[gamerX1990]

Actually, memory bandwidth is a very big thing.
Fillrates are about equal, otherwise.
(You must have missed my edit on the HD 5670 having two available data rate configurations)

I suppose I did.. the 5670 I specifically looked at actually all of them here are all GDDR5 versions.