Ok so I spent all day downloading 3DMark 06 to give it a try. I register it as a professional edition and start it up. I notice that the start up is taking a lot longer then 05 ever did. Then when I try to run the test it freezes my computer completely.
I thought that it might be a PSU issue so I decided to put my new Titan 550W PSU into my old dell case (bit of a squeeze seeing as it cant screw to the back but the case is already lying sideways as the heatsink is falling off the CPU but anyway...). With the new PSU I managed to get the tests to run and managed to get through the first two gfx tests and the first of the CPU tests (0-1fps wootage). Then it goes back out to checking system configuration and freezes.
That's just one of the oddities. I noticed that when I run 3DMark06 even before I try running the tests it is using a lot of the CPU power. I decided to restart the computer and take a look in Task manager at just what was happening as it started up.
First it takes up a full thread and leaves the second empty while it starts up which takes around 20 seconds then the program itself goes down to 1-2% usage but there is something in the background that is using 50% of both threads. It doesnt show up in the processes and the System Idle Process says that it is at 99% even though the graphs show the CPU usage to be oscillating wildly between 50 and 90% from this unknown process. I tried closing down 3DMark 06 but this had absolutely no effect on the phenomenon.
I took a screenshot of the graphs and managed to load paint up to paste it into then had to restart as the computer was slowed down so much.
Does anybody know why this would be happening? I have never seen a ghost process that uses up the CPU power but doesnt appear in the process manager. Here is the screenshot:
I thought that it might be a PSU issue so I decided to put my new Titan 550W PSU into my old dell case (bit of a squeeze seeing as it cant screw to the back but the case is already lying sideways as the heatsink is falling off the CPU but anyway...). With the new PSU I managed to get the tests to run and managed to get through the first two gfx tests and the first of the CPU tests (0-1fps wootage). Then it goes back out to checking system configuration and freezes.
That's just one of the oddities. I noticed that when I run 3DMark06 even before I try running the tests it is using a lot of the CPU power. I decided to restart the computer and take a look in Task manager at just what was happening as it started up.
First it takes up a full thread and leaves the second empty while it starts up which takes around 20 seconds then the program itself goes down to 1-2% usage but there is something in the background that is using 50% of both threads. It doesnt show up in the processes and the System Idle Process says that it is at 99% even though the graphs show the CPU usage to be oscillating wildly between 50 and 90% from this unknown process. I tried closing down 3DMark 06 but this had absolutely no effect on the phenomenon.
I took a screenshot of the graphs and managed to load paint up to paste it into then had to restart as the computer was slowed down so much.
Does anybody know why this would be happening? I have never seen a ghost process that uses up the CPU power but doesnt appear in the process manager. Here is the screenshot:
