How Well Will My System Work?

[Sythedragon]

You're limited by something else then. Don't ask me what it is though, could even be stuff like the AGP port (your computer still has this, right?).

no i have no agp slot, its all pci

I believe he means the actual GPU..

Or RAMA's slightly confused? Or I'm confused...

[zero29]

You're limited by something else then. Don't ask me what it is though, could even be stuff like the AGP port (your computer still has this, right?).

Graphics
ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 Graphics with support for external graphics via a PCI
Express* x16 connector

Expansion Capabilities
• Two PCI bus add-in card connectors
• One PCI Express x16 connector
• One PCI Express x1 connector

source

[rama]

I meant the graphic bus alright, no confusion there
In some early testing of mine I found the bus speed was important to GSdx..

Anyway, if speedhacks don't do anything, then something else is the bottleneck.
But whatever it is, fixing it will just shift the problem around a bit, making the cpu the bottleneck again.
The system is just too old.

[Sythedragon]

I meant the graphic bus alright, no confusion there
In some early testing of mine I found the bus speed was important to GSdx..

Anyway, if speedhacks don't do anything, then something else is the bottleneck.
But whatever it is, fixing it will just shift the problem around a bit, making the cpu the bottleneck again.
The system is just too old.

I get ya ..

He could just overclock his PCI-E frequency? Although that's just a stupid idea..

Lol.

[Lu5ck]

Just running the emulator with everything off. Least "Services" and "Background", just to squeeze that bit of resources out. It can be quite significant if you didn't tweak your Windows XP at all.