Sloq Core 2 Quad PC

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I have just built a PC using the following new components:

Abit IP35 Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40GHz 1066 FSB Processor
GEIL 1GB x 2 PC 6400 800MHz CAS4 DDR2 RAM

I've also re-used some components from my old PC, such as my Tagan 480W TG480-U01 PSU, Leadtek Winfast PX6800 GT TDH (256Mb) Graphics Card, old case, DVD ROM Drive, etc.

I should point out that I'm not overclocking anything as I wouldn't know how to!

My problem is that whiles office-type software appears to run fine, games run VERY slowly (more slowly than they did on my old single-core 3200 Athlon PC, which this new PC replaced).

At first I thought it was just the sound running slowly (I tired playing Full Spectrum Warrior and the sound was very jittery, such that it made the game unplayable) but I've just tried installing and playing Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter for the first time and the whole thing seems to be running very slowly in that (slow sound AND graphics... when I try to make my soldier "run", it moves along at a snail's pace!).

I realise I'm not running a particularly up-to-date graphics card, but it certainly ran Full Spectrum Warrior nicely on my old Athlon PC, also I don't think this would account for the slow/choppy sound? (Incidentally, sound works fine in Windows media player).

Any ideas what could be wrong? Any help would be gratefully received... I'm not very technical when it comes to PCs, and I'm missing out on the one time of the year (Christmas) when I actually have a spare hour or two to play some games! :mad:

Thanks in anticipation of your help!
 
The graphics card will be a big bottleneck & may not go much faster in games compared to your old rig.
e.g. I accidently booted up at 2.1ghz & was playing games all week & never noticed compared to 3.55ghz.
 
Sounds like something is holding it back ( pardon the pun :D )
Have you checked the system monitor to make sure no software is dragging it?

Need more info.
 
All 4 cores are being recognised in the Task Manager.

I did a clean install of windows and installed all the current chipset and graphics card drivers when I rebuilt the PC. I've just tried updating the Graphics Card driver to the current NVIDIA driver with no imporvements, same with the chipset driver.

GPU-Z says that my Bus Interface is PCI-E x16 @ x16, which I presume is also correct?

I went into the Windows Task Manager and checked the processes tab. Under the CPU column (which I presume shows what's hogging system resources?) it shows internet explorer as 01 and system idle process as 99... I presume that this is a good sign?

Could the problem be anything to do with memory voltage settings or anything else in the BIOS?

Incidentally, to me the BIOS itself also seems to runs slow, i.e. it is noticeably slow when moving from one BIOS option to another. Again, the BIOS on my old Athlon system seemed to run much faster. The POST information on startup is also slower than on my old PC. Could this be symptomatic of a bigger problem?

In the BIOS, the CPU Operatign Speed is 2400 (266).
Voltage Control is set to Manual.
CPU Core Voltage is 1.2625V
DDR2 Voltage is 2.05V
CPU VTT Voltage is 1.2000V
ICH 1.50V Voltage is 1.50V
MCH 1.25V Voltage is 1.250V
CPUGTLREF is 63.0%
CPU Temp is 40 Degrees C (I'm using the retail cooler and thermal pad supplied with the processor)
System Temp is 35 Degrees C

Does any of this information help?
 
Looks ok apart from CPU voltage as I know its 1.35 on a B3.
From a different p35 but theres some voltage examples on the watercooling link in my sig.
I presume you've tried the default BIOS?
Yer the P35 is a little slow to post, mine even turns on & off a few times before posting fully.
 
B3 is the older intel quadcore 2.4 which ran hotter, I dont know what voltage your quad should be if its the current chip. I think 1.35v wont hurt but doubt thats causing the prob.
Try removing stuff from the mobo like dvdrom/soundcard etc. & hopefully you'll find the culprit, run a RAM test.
 
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