WilliamShaye

Lets try and get some small gains by freeing some memory, will reduce those hangs a little Apart from the obvious such as updating your audio and graphic drivers http://www.asrock.com/mb/NVIDIA/N68C-GS%20FX/?cat=Download&os=XP ( audio 96.36mb, may reduce CPU load for your audio device by a small margin ) Definitely do a defrag over night, Run windows in 800 x 600 native when playing, instead of 1027 x 768 If you can, Run full screen End all unnecessary processes in Task Manager, this includes any nVidia software Delete all unused or unnecessary icons off of your desktop If your task bar is opaque, right click on the desktop > personalise, switch your theme to windows basic. This will disable windows aero. If your wallpapers are on rotate, disable it If you have not got any anti virus software installed, you do. It's called Windows Defender, it can be found in Control Panel, un tick automatically scan my computer edit - Within DayZ, go to audio settings and reduce sound sources to 16 It is about all you can do for now, rather, what I can think of, without going into the bios and messing with the clock rates. When July comes by mate try the overclockers website, system and bundles offer, then go to ebay, find the deal. As of now, you can get an i5 4670K bundle in that price range :) not too bad indeed

You can try - 1) Doing a defrag on your hard drive, if it is mechanical 2) Shut down every possible background process such as anti virus software -- edit -- felt bad about belittling the people above -- edit -- Your mobo only supports DDR3 memory with a AM3, AM3+ processors, which the 4200+ is AM2 :( so your memory is running at DDR2 specs regardless. Can you go to Start > Run > type in dxdiag, run it > when it finishes click Save All Information at the bottom and post the results :)

Try plugging in your head phones before you launch the game.