Quick note: I haven't actually run any upgrade wizards in a while. I'll do that. Restore point first and then get Steam to do it for me.
I've noted that game has been started to use 100% of CPU resources around the time i20 hit. Before that I had some breathing room in terms of processing power. But as SP1 hit at the same time, I blamed that.
The motherboard won't support any more RAM.
But considering the deal I got on the system at the time, I can't really complain.
The power supply should support everything in the system. I've upgraded it myself from the tiny 320W to a decent 750W.
The switch is a network switch/router. Its supposedly the step above a router but works the same way. We've transferred MASSIVE files over the LAN rather quick but hook up to the net and any computer is 50kB/s. This is regardless of the number of computers on.
Normally I don't have lag or rubber-banding...which is rather nice. Just this Incarnate system is frustration. Normally when I'm playing CoX I don't do silly things like try download 90MB trailers in the background.
----edit---
Steam is updating AMD graphics driver now. For some reason I couldn't create a restore point. It kept "timing out". There's only one hassle of using Steam... All those things I want to get... Orange Box, Portal 2 (waiting for it to come down in price) TF2, Civilization, ... and much more.
Anyway, here is what Steam says is my System Specs are, before the update.
Processor Information:
Vendor: GenuineIntel
Speed: 2793 Mhz
2 logical processors
2 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Unsupported
Network Information:
Network Speed:
Operating System Version:
Windows 7 (32 bit)
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 323 0x0 0x0 0x0
Video Card:
Driver: ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
DirectX Driver Name: aticfx32.dll
Driver Version: 8.821.0.0
DirectX Driver Version: 8.17.10.1065
Driver Date: 26 Jan 2011
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
DirectX Card: ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
VendorID: 0x1002
DeviceID: 0x68be
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 1440 x 900
Desktop Resolution: 1440 x 900
Primary Display Size: 20.00" x 12.52" (23.58" diag)
50.8cm x 31.8cm (59.9cm diag)
Primary Bus Type Not Detected
Primary VRAM: 1024 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x
Sound card:
Audio device: Headphones (High Definition Aud
Memory:
RAM: 3069 Mb
Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Microphone: Not set
Media Type: DVD
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 673604 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 95331 Mb
Steam Hard Disk Usage: 19415 Mb
OS Install Date: Jan 14 2010
Game Controller: None detected
Installed software:
µTorrent
Acrobat.com
Adobe AIR
Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX
Adobe Flash Player 10 Plugin
Adobe Reader 9.4.4
Adobe Shockwave Player 11.5
AMD Drag and Drop Transcoding
Apple Application Support
Apple Mobile Device Support
Apple Software Update
Ashampoo Burning Studio 9.21
Ashampoo Core Tuner 1.20
Ashampoo Magical Defrag 3
Ashampoo WinOptimizer 6.50
ATI Catalyst Install Manager
avast! Free Antivirus
Bonjour
Catalyst Control Center - Branding
Catalyst Control Center Core Implementation
Catalyst Control Center Graphics Full Existing
Catalyst Control Center Graphics Full New
Catalyst Control Center Graphics Light
Catalyst Control Center Graphics Previews Common
Catalyst Control Center Graphics Previews Vista
Catalyst Control Center HydraVision Full
Catalyst Control Center InstallProxy
CCC Help English
ccc-core-static
ccc-utility
ConvertHelper 2.2
Crazy Machines
Crazy Machines 1.5 Inventors Training Camp
Crazy Machines 1.5 New from the Lab
Crazy Machines 2
D3DX10
e-tax 2010
ESET Online Scanner v3
Evil Genius
GetRight
GIMP 2.6.8
Hospital Tycoon
Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator Driver
Intel(R) TV Wizard
iTunes
Jade Empire: Special Edition
Java Auto Updater
Java(TM) 6 Update 24
Junk Mail filter update
Just Great Software EditPad Lite 6.6.0
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 3.8.0
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile
Microsoft Application Error Reporting
Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2)
Microsoft Office Basic 2007
Microsoft Office Excel MUI (English) 2007
Microsoft Office Live Add-in 1.5
Microsoft Office Outlook MUI (English) 2007
Microsoft Office Proof (English) 2007
Microsoft Office Proof (French) 2007
Microsoft Office Proof (Spanish) 2007
Microsoft Office Proofing (English) 2007
Microsoft Office Proofing Tools 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2)
Microsoft Office Shared MUI (English) 2007
Microsoft Office Shared Setup Metadata MUI (English) 2007
Microsoft Office Word MUI (English) 2007
Microsoft Search Enhancement Pack
Microsoft Silverlight
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition [ENU]
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 ATL Update kb973924 - x86 9.0.30729.4148
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.30729.17
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.30729.4148
Mids' Hero/Villain Designer
MozBackup 1.4.10
Mozilla Firefox (3.6.16)
Mozilla Thunderbird (3.1.10)
MSVCRT
NCsoft Launcher
NVIDIA PhysX v8.09.04
Online Armor 5.0
OpenAL
Panda USB Vaccine 1.0.1.4
Portal
PowerDVD DX
QuickTime
Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure
Security Update for 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB2288621)
Security Update for 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB2288931)
Security Update for 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB2289158)
Security Update for 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB2344875)
Security Update for 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB969559)
Security Update for 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB976321)
Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 (KB2345035)
Security Update for Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 (KB979441)
Security Update for Microsoft Office system 2007 (972581)
Security Update for Microsoft Office system 2007 (KB974234)
Security Update for Microsoft Office Visio Viewer 2007 (KB973709)
Security Update for Microsoft Office Word 2007 (KB2344993)
Spybot - Search & Destroy
Steam
The Lord of the Rings FREE Trial
Twin Sector
Update for 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB967642)
Update for Microsoft Office 2007 Help for Common Features (KB963673)
Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Help (KB963678)
Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (KB2412171)
Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Help (KB963677)
Update for Microsoft Office Script Editor Help (KB963671)
Update for Microsoft Office Word 2007 Help (KB963665)
Update for Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB2508979)
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War - Gold Edition
WavePad Sound Editor
Windows Live Communications Platform
Windows Live Essentials
Windows Live Family Safety
Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant
Windows Live Installer
Windows Live Mail
Windows Live Messenger
Windows Live MIME IFilter
Windows Live Movie Maker
Windows Live Photo Common
Windows Live Photo Gallery
Windows Live PIMT Platform
Windows Live SOXE
Windows Live SOXE Definitions
Windows Live Sync
Windows Live UX Platform
Windows Live UX Platform Language Pack
Windows Live Writer
Windows Live Writer Resources
WinRAR archiver
WordWeb
Yahoo! Software Update
Yahoo!7 Messenger
Yahoo!7 Toolbar
I've noted that game has been started to use 100% of CPU resources around the time i20 hit. Before that I had some breathing room in terms of processing power. But as SP1 hit at the same time, I blamed that.
The motherboard won't support any more RAM.
But considering the deal I got on the system at the time, I can't really complain. The power supply should support everything in the system. I've upgraded it myself from the tiny 320W to a decent 750W.
The switch is a network switch/router. Its supposedly the step above a router but works the same way. We've transferred MASSIVE files over the LAN rather quick but hook up to the net and any computer is 50kB/s. This is regardless of the number of computers on.
Normally I don't have lag or rubber-banding...which is rather nice. Just this Incarnate system is frustration. Normally when I'm playing CoX I don't do silly things like try download 90MB trailers in the background.
----edit---
Steam is updating AMD graphics driver now. For some reason I couldn't create a restore point. It kept "timing out". There's only one hassle of using Steam... All those things I want to get... Orange Box, Portal 2 (waiting for it to come down in price) TF2, Civilization, ... and much more.
Anyway, here is what Steam says is my System Specs are, before the update.
Processor Information:
Vendor: GenuineIntel
Speed: 2793 Mhz
2 logical processors
2 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Unsupported
Network Information:
Network Speed:
Operating System Version:
Windows 7 (32 bit)
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 323 0x0 0x0 0x0
Video Card:
Driver: ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
DirectX Driver Name: aticfx32.dll
Driver Version: 8.821.0.0
DirectX Driver Version: 8.17.10.1065
Driver Date: 26 Jan 2011
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
DirectX Card: ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
VendorID: 0x1002
DeviceID: 0x68be
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 1440 x 900
Desktop Resolution: 1440 x 900
Primary Display Size: 20.00" x 12.52" (23.58" diag)
50.8cm x 31.8cm (59.9cm diag)
Primary Bus Type Not Detected
Primary VRAM: 1024 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x
Sound card:
Audio device: Headphones (High Definition Aud
Memory:
RAM: 3069 Mb
Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Microphone: Not set
Media Type: DVD
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 673604 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 95331 Mb
Steam Hard Disk Usage: 19415 Mb
OS Install Date: Jan 14 2010
Game Controller: None detected
Installed software:
µTorrent
Acrobat.com
Adobe AIR
Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX
Adobe Flash Player 10 Plugin
Adobe Reader 9.4.4
Adobe Shockwave Player 11.5
AMD Drag and Drop Transcoding
Apple Application Support
Apple Mobile Device Support
Apple Software Update
Ashampoo Burning Studio 9.21
Ashampoo Core Tuner 1.20
Ashampoo Magical Defrag 3
Ashampoo WinOptimizer 6.50
ATI Catalyst Install Manager
avast! Free Antivirus
Bonjour
Catalyst Control Center - Branding
Catalyst Control Center Core Implementation
Catalyst Control Center Graphics Full Existing
Catalyst Control Center Graphics Full New
Catalyst Control Center Graphics Light
Catalyst Control Center Graphics Previews Common
Catalyst Control Center Graphics Previews Vista
Catalyst Control Center HydraVision Full
Catalyst Control Center InstallProxy
CCC Help English
ccc-core-static
ccc-utility
ConvertHelper 2.2
Crazy Machines
Crazy Machines 1.5 Inventors Training Camp
Crazy Machines 1.5 New from the Lab
Crazy Machines 2
D3DX10
e-tax 2010
ESET Online Scanner v3
Evil Genius
GetRight
GIMP 2.6.8
Hospital Tycoon
Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator Driver
Intel(R) TV Wizard
iTunes
Jade Empire: Special Edition
Java Auto Updater
Java(TM) 6 Update 24
Junk Mail filter update
Just Great Software EditPad Lite 6.6.0
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 3.8.0
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile
Microsoft Application Error Reporting
Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2)
Microsoft Office Basic 2007
Microsoft Office Excel MUI (English) 2007
Microsoft Office Live Add-in 1.5
Microsoft Office Outlook MUI (English) 2007
Microsoft Office Proof (English) 2007
Microsoft Office Proof (French) 2007
Microsoft Office Proof (Spanish) 2007
Microsoft Office Proofing (English) 2007
Microsoft Office Proofing Tools 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2)
Microsoft Office Shared MUI (English) 2007
Microsoft Office Shared Setup Metadata MUI (English) 2007
Microsoft Office Word MUI (English) 2007
Microsoft Search Enhancement Pack
Microsoft Silverlight
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition [ENU]
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 ATL Update kb973924 - x86 9.0.30729.4148
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.30729.17
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.30729.4148
Mids' Hero/Villain Designer
MozBackup 1.4.10
Mozilla Firefox (3.6.16)
Mozilla Thunderbird (3.1.10)
MSVCRT
NCsoft Launcher
NVIDIA PhysX v8.09.04
Online Armor 5.0
OpenAL
Panda USB Vaccine 1.0.1.4
Portal
PowerDVD DX
QuickTime
Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure
Security Update for 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB2288621)
Security Update for 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB2288931)
Security Update for 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB2289158)
Security Update for 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB2344875)
Security Update for 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB969559)
Security Update for 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB976321)
Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 (KB2345035)
Security Update for Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 (KB979441)
Security Update for Microsoft Office system 2007 (972581)
Security Update for Microsoft Office system 2007 (KB974234)
Security Update for Microsoft Office Visio Viewer 2007 (KB973709)
Security Update for Microsoft Office Word 2007 (KB2344993)
Spybot - Search & Destroy
Steam
The Lord of the Rings FREE Trial
Twin Sector
Update for 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB967642)
Update for Microsoft Office 2007 Help for Common Features (KB963673)
Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Help (KB963678)
Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (KB2412171)
Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Help (KB963677)
Update for Microsoft Office Script Editor Help (KB963671)
Update for Microsoft Office Word 2007 Help (KB963665)
Update for Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB2508979)
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War - Gold Edition
WavePad Sound Editor
Windows Live Communications Platform
Windows Live Essentials
Windows Live Family Safety
Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant
Windows Live Installer
Windows Live Mail
Windows Live Messenger
Windows Live MIME IFilter
Windows Live Movie Maker
Windows Live Photo Common
Windows Live Photo Gallery
Windows Live PIMT Platform
Windows Live SOXE
Windows Live SOXE Definitions
Windows Live Sync
Windows Live UX Platform
Windows Live UX Platform Language Pack
Windows Live Writer
Windows Live Writer Resources
WinRAR archiver
WordWeb
Yahoo! Software Update
Yahoo!7 Messenger
Yahoo!7 Toolbar