Slow PC

Cookiedoodle

Cookiedoodle

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

Abit IP35 MB
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40GHz 1066 FSB Processor
Geil 1GB x 2 PC 6400 800MHz CAS4 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 (256 Mb) Graphics Card, old case, DVD Rom Drives, etc.

My problem is that whilst office software etc seems to run fine, games seem to run VERY slowly (more more slowly than they did on my old single-core 3200 Athlon PC which the new PC replaced).

At first I thought it was just the sound running slowly (I tried playing Full Spectrum Warrior and the sound was very jittery, such as it made the game unplayable) but I've just tried playing Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and that also has terribly slow sound and very slow graphics.

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

Any ideas what could be wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm not particularly 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.
 
Have you loaded the chipset/gfx drivers? I'm assuming you did a fresh install of windows.

Is the gfx card running in full x16 mode?

Check for applications running in the background hogging resources.
 
Check in device manager or task manager that all 4 cores are being recognised.

Also check you have the chipset/vga drivers installed :)
 
Thanks for your advice :)

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, but I'm re-downloading and re-installing the drivers again now, just in case.

How do I tell whether the graphics card is running in full x16 mode?

I went into the Windows Tast Manager and checked the processes tab. Under the CPU column (which I presume shows what's hogging syste 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?
 
I've just updated 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?

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?
 
well this is a strange one!!
IMO i would say considering the new parts you have fitted it could be the motherboard considering the problems you are having even in the BIOS

talking of which have you updated to the latest BIOS for that motherboard (doubt it wil help but you never know)

so in a nutshell i think it's the motherboard
 
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