First post, by xtreger
So I have an Asrock 775i65G rev 2.12 motherboard, with 2 GB DDR400 RAM, BIOS version 3.0 and Radeon X850 Pro.
With the Core 2 Duo E4600 (2.40 GHz) processor in place, the RAM is autodetected as DDR333. And with this config, 3dmark 2001 SE score is 24.8K and Far Cry has some approx. average FPS in the 90s.
Today I experimented a bit - replaced that CPU with a Core 2 Duo E7500 (2.93 GHz). This one autodetects RAM as DDR400. But the 3dmark 2001 SE score is around 21.5k and Far Cry average FPS drops by around 9 or so.
So I'm a bit confused as to what's going on - as you can guess I'm kind of a noob in this field. It'd be really nice to know why this is happening, and what's the best possible processor I can put in this setup.