I built a gaming system in mid-December and it ran with no problems until a couple weeks to a month ago (not sure when it started really.) I was playing City of Villains and noticed that I was experiencing a singnificant drop in framerates after 15 mins of play or so.
This led me to running a couple of tests -
Quitting the game and restarting yielded no change. Rebooting however, brought me right back to where I should be in framerates for 15 mins or so, then it dropped right back down.
I ran 3dmark05 after the slowdown and it yielded a result of 5711. Rebooted and ran the test 5 more times ina row.
Test 1: 8262
Test 2: 8276
Test 3: 5699
Test 4: 5668
Test 5: 5668
Hmmmm. These results made me dig a little bit deeper.
So I downloaded performance Test 6.0 and ran it after the slowdown and then again after reboot. The results were..shocking to say the least. The comparison graph that I exported is just a little too big for me to attach, but CPU performance in 8 different tested catagories was down by 50%, 2D and 3D graphics performance was down 50% and Memory performance was down 50%. Fifty percent?!
So my question for all you people who are more knowledgable than me is: does this sound like a hardware problem or a software problem. Sure stinks of hardware to me, but I'm going to do a complete hard drive wipe and reinstall only windows and a couple of benchmark tools to eliminate software altogether.
Any ideas any of you can give me would be super.
Thanks,
Kev.
This led me to running a couple of tests -
Quitting the game and restarting yielded no change. Rebooting however, brought me right back to where I should be in framerates for 15 mins or so, then it dropped right back down.
I ran 3dmark05 after the slowdown and it yielded a result of 5711. Rebooted and ran the test 5 more times ina row.
Test 1: 8262
Test 2: 8276
Test 3: 5699
Test 4: 5668
Test 5: 5668
Hmmmm. These results made me dig a little bit deeper.
So I downloaded performance Test 6.0 and ran it after the slowdown and then again after reboot. The results were..shocking to say the least. The comparison graph that I exported is just a little too big for me to attach, but CPU performance in 8 different tested catagories was down by 50%, 2D and 3D graphics performance was down 50% and Memory performance was down 50%. Fifty percent?!
So my question for all you people who are more knowledgable than me is: does this sound like a hardware problem or a software problem. Sure stinks of hardware to me, but I'm going to do a complete hard drive wipe and reinstall only windows and a couple of benchmark tools to eliminate software altogether.
Any ideas any of you can give me would be super.
Thanks,
Kev.