How come my new hardware stills lags?

[Shiranai_Baka]

I vote for the CPU as well.

Is this one any good?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819104257

I don't have $1000 for a Socket 939 board and 2.6ghz AMD 64 Socket 939, so this'd be cheaper and it would give me a huge boost.

You guys are totally ignoring his suggestions.

Lol You don't need 1k. Or is that exaggeration? Well Just look for the 64 3200+s. The rig I'm running is pretty stable.

[Wolfmight]

I doubt it's the CPU.
I've run Doom3 wihtout lag on an athlon XP 2200+

Not even a single lag? What were the specs on that machine with the athlon xp 2200+?

[tesco]

I doubt it's the CPU.
I've run Doom3 wihtout lag on an athlon XP 2200+

Not even a single lag? What were the specs on that machine with the athlon xp 2200+?

512mb ram
40gb 5200rpm hard drive
cant remember if I had the geforce 5200 or mx440 at that time...

Basically not that good of a computer, the game was on low or med settings and in the game it worked fine, getting into it and exiting, loading, etc. was hell tho (needed more ram I think).

[lynx]

Audio Chipset Realtek ALC850

There's your problem. That's an audio playback chipset, so it's not really suitable for generated sound used in games.

It's a fairly simple codec which needs to get all it's instructions from the cpu. Combined with what are probably poor drivers (as far as DirectX is concerned) you aren't going to get very good performance.

Considering the mobo costs less that $71 you can't expect much more.

Get a decent sound card (or even a cheap sound card, it can't be worse).

[clocker]

... but I still get little lags everytime some music comes on (a split second lag/freeze)

Get a decent sound card (or even a cheap sound card, it can't be worse).

I agree.

[Wolfmight]

Ah, so that's it
Could you guys recommend a decent one for $70 or under?
What about this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16829102178 ?

Here's a page full of them: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...SubCategory=57

[tesco]

Could you try disabling sound to make sure that's the problem?

[Wolfmight]

Could you try disabling sound to make sure that's the problem?

In the game or in the bios?

[Wolfmight]

The game doesn't run with the OnBoard Audio disabled in the Bios and it doesn't help to mute everything either. I think it might just be the CPU. I overclocked it to 1.75ghz and didn't see much of a difference. I'm too scared to bring it up to 1.8 or 2.0.

[lynx]

Ah, so that's it
Could you guys recommend a decent one for $70 or under?
What about this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16829102178 ?

Given your budget, that's probably what you should go for.
Note the polyphony spec "64 voices (hardware)", that's where the real performance benefits come in.

Here's a page full of them: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...SubCategory=57

The first one on the page is the retail version of the one above, but it is $10 cheaper after the rebate.

Could you try disabling sound to make sure that's the problem?

In the game or in the bios?

I think he means in the game, the game probably won't work with the audio disabled in bios.