extremely slow performance..card to blame?

[mjf6866]

You will definitely see a huge improvement with that graphics card, most probably everything at maximum for Amnesia TDD. Your CPU is a beast performer (for it's time of course but should perform perfectly fine meaning no bottleneck at all), you have plenty of RAM and a solid operating system. If I were you I wouldn't worry at all. Once you get that graphics card you should be ready to game. Personally I would go for the Radeon HD 7770 which has the best value for money option (price/performance ratio) but you should still do ok with the 7750.

EDIT: 4 cores + 12MB L2 cache...damn, that CPU must have been an extreme edition or something back at 2008. Oh and yeah, that graphics card couldn't be any worse for such a system. It's embarrassing really...

yeah, the main reason i went with that 7750 was because it was offered with a very small heat sinc and low profile ready (this is going into a small form factor dell). and that shitty card that came with it was just installed for office use to have dual screens.

cant wait until i can play this game!...and other ones that i missed out on!

thanks for the info!