Neverender
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Hi there - first post from this guy. I'm in desperate need of finding the source of my problems and not sure where to turn. Hopefully you can help...
Over the past few weeks I've been noticing some pretty intense performance issues on my PC. I have my harddrive partitioned with 2 installations of XP Pro - one for work, one for gaming. My specs are...
* Case: Antec Sonata, Raidmax 520W PSU
* Motherboard: MSI 875P Neo
* Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz
* Memory: Corsair 2x512MB DDR 400MHz XMS Pro Series
* Storage: 200GB Western Digital S-ATA, 200GB Western Digital External IDE
* Optical: Liteon 8x DVD+RW
* Video: BFG Nvidia 6600 GT 128MB
* Audio: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum
The problem is that I'm not seeing the performance I should from my rig, and it's only getting worse - and fast! For instance, if I fire up Counter Strike Source and run the video stress test, I'll usually get 70-110+ FPS the first time around. If I continue to run it, the FPS drops drastically. The second time will usually be around 50, then 40, 30... at which point it usually hovers around 30 or will occasionally jump back up around 60 FPS. When I play games, I see similar results. After 20-30 minutes into a game things are chugging big time. To the point that I can't even turn without seeing dropped frames.
I took my machine over to a friend's tonight who builds PCs on the side. After 3 hours of tinkering - which included completely unhooking everything from the motherboard and setting it all back up, resetting the BIOS and playing with various settings and rolling back to older drivers for video and sound, he gave up. No idea what's wrong and has never seen anything like this.
Every piece of hardware is under a year old. I picked up the processor, video card and PSU in July. The RAM just this week. I'm wicked frustrate having pretty much just finished upgrading everything and seeing the worst performance I've ever experienced. There isn't exactly a local shop I could take it to - they'd just tell me to reinstall Windows or keep it for a week and do that anyway. And my only computer savvy friend is stumped. Hoping we've overlooked something and someone here is able to help. I'll try anything - so if you have a suggestion, let's hear it!
Thanks for your time.
Matt
Over the past few weeks I've been noticing some pretty intense performance issues on my PC. I have my harddrive partitioned with 2 installations of XP Pro - one for work, one for gaming. My specs are...
* Case: Antec Sonata, Raidmax 520W PSU
* Motherboard: MSI 875P Neo
* Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz
* Memory: Corsair 2x512MB DDR 400MHz XMS Pro Series
* Storage: 200GB Western Digital S-ATA, 200GB Western Digital External IDE
* Optical: Liteon 8x DVD+RW
* Video: BFG Nvidia 6600 GT 128MB
* Audio: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum
The problem is that I'm not seeing the performance I should from my rig, and it's only getting worse - and fast! For instance, if I fire up Counter Strike Source and run the video stress test, I'll usually get 70-110+ FPS the first time around. If I continue to run it, the FPS drops drastically. The second time will usually be around 50, then 40, 30... at which point it usually hovers around 30 or will occasionally jump back up around 60 FPS. When I play games, I see similar results. After 20-30 minutes into a game things are chugging big time. To the point that I can't even turn without seeing dropped frames.
I took my machine over to a friend's tonight who builds PCs on the side. After 3 hours of tinkering - which included completely unhooking everything from the motherboard and setting it all back up, resetting the BIOS and playing with various settings and rolling back to older drivers for video and sound, he gave up. No idea what's wrong and has never seen anything like this.
Every piece of hardware is under a year old. I picked up the processor, video card and PSU in July. The RAM just this week. I'm wicked frustrate having pretty much just finished upgrading everything and seeing the worst performance I've ever experienced. There isn't exactly a local shop I could take it to - they'd just tell me to reinstall Windows or keep it for a week and do that anyway. And my only computer savvy friend is stumped. Hoping we've overlooked something and someone here is able to help. I'll try anything - so if you have a suggestion, let's hear it!
Thanks for your time.
Matt