Right, I think my PC is dying really slowly and starting to speed up. Basically I have a pretty good PC 3500+ Venice @ 2.53Ghz 1.55V, 1GB OCZ DDR PC3200, Leadtek 7800GTX, GIGABYTE GA K8N Ultra-9 and a Sound Blaster Live! 24bit.
Now.. my PSU is what is in question. I built this rig before I knew anything about PCs so I thought "Wow 500W, must be good". Unfortunatly I was wrong.. It's from the "Value" series of PSUs from another eTailor so it's pretty much generic.
My PC is MASSIVELY under performing in games. In CSS I get fps drops to 22 in some parts.. When I'm talking to benjo over ts and we're on the same part of a map his fps is sometimes double mine.. and we're on the same settings and he's on an AGP X800XT-PE
. I've been told that my graphics card may only be getting enough power to boot and not to perform to the best of its ability.
Besides the shocking performance in games I regularly find my PC randomly rebotting then randomly freezing for no apparant reason.. Then I remember about the PSU and think it must be that.. It is very very annoying having someone will a 7800GT @ stock score higher than my overclocked GTX..
Please tell me this is the problem so I can sort it..
naffa
Now.. my PSU is what is in question. I built this rig before I knew anything about PCs so I thought "Wow 500W, must be good". Unfortunatly I was wrong.. It's from the "Value" series of PSUs from another eTailor so it's pretty much generic.
My PC is MASSIVELY under performing in games. In CSS I get fps drops to 22 in some parts.. When I'm talking to benjo over ts and we're on the same part of a map his fps is sometimes double mine.. and we're on the same settings and he's on an AGP X800XT-PE
. I've been told that my graphics card may only be getting enough power to boot and not to perform to the best of its ability.Besides the shocking performance in games I regularly find my PC randomly rebotting then randomly freezing for no apparant reason.. Then I remember about the PSU and think it must be that.. It is very very annoying having someone will a 7800GT @ stock score higher than my overclocked GTX..
Please tell me this is the problem so I can sort it..
naffa
