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Q6600 labouring

ViperZS

ViperZS

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Hi guys.

I've got a Q6600 running stock with 6GB ram with a fresh install of W7 64bit.

I have just turned the PC on from standby and it wouldnt boot. Fans and lights turned on the PC and mouse lit up but nothing came up on the screen. I turned it off by holind power switch and turning off at the wall. Booted again and now it seems to be labouring a bit. I'm playing music through Spotify and if I scroll a busy page such as facebook or google images the music stutters and CPU usage shoots up.

Temperatures are between 35 and 39 which is pretty normal for my PC.

Any ideas?
 
I had a similar issue of CPU usage shooting up, turned out one of the sound drivers ended up corrupted somehow, reinstalled it and all was back to normal.

So I would try drivers, and virus scan it etc
 
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Also, why not try an overclock? The Q6600 is particularly receptive to OCing and gets a pretty good speed boost from clocking.
 
Check the power cable hasnt come lose on *ANY* SATA peripherals you may have. If they are connected to the board but not powered, they cause a lot of lag in a system.
 
This was my first thought when I saw the title

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neo-omega said:
Also, why not try an overclock? The Q6600 is particularly receptive to OCing and gets a pretty good speed boost from clocking.
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In all honesty, because I wouldn't have a clue what I was doing it, so I have just left it alone :rolleyes:

Eclectic said:
Check the power cable hasnt come lose on *ANY* SATA peripherals you may have. If they are connected to the board but not powered, they cause a lot of lag in a system.
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Cheers, I'll check it out

tgomas said:
I got this and had to do another reinstall, I never found out what it was.
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Hope I don't have to do that. Can't be arsed! lol

Devrij. I see what you did there ;)
 
have a very similar type of a setup, your chip & board will very happily go to 3.2 or even 3.4 GHz with less than 5 steps in bios.
But with your question, have you tried to use a utility like cpu-z to see if your cpu is working at 2.4GHz? I am saying this because some gigabyte bios tend to "reset" the settings to the lowest in the cpu multiplier.
(266 * 9 => 2.4GHz, 266 * 6 => 1.6GHz)
 
I have a windows widget which shows CPU usage and clock speed :)

It is sat at 1.5 now but if I do anything it goes up to 2.4.

It has stopped labouring. A second restart sorted it. Not happened since. One thing I get on start up though, which I got before I reinstalled W7 is Windows Media Player will appear in the task bar and use about 20% CPU until i end task. Sometimes it will come back!

Any ideas?
 
Try using msconfig to disable anything you dont need on start up, failing that remove WMP via the control panel, can't say I ever use it!
 
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