Slow running PC?

jimmyob

jimmyob

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Hi guys,
i was wondering if i could get some help with my pc. I couldn't be bothered to make my own set-up so I purchased a HP pavillion elite 063 a few days ago. I've been out of the loop a bit with computers for the last 4 or so years so have no idea what's good or not.
The set-up is as follows:
intel i7 860 processor
8gb ram
Nvidia GT 230 1.5GB
2x 1TB hdd's

I understand it's isn't by any means the best set up i could have bought but for the price seemed pretty reasonable.
The only problem i'm having is when i run 3dmark06 i seem to be getting results around the 8500 mark. I may be wrong but i think that's what my old PC was getting 4 years ago.
Are there any fundamental problems with the system? I know the GFX isn't that great but i would have though 10000+ should be possible.

I'm only getting around 20-30 fps in the less complex tests

Any help would be great,
Jim
 
I rather suspect the GT230 to be ****. How does it do on cpu benchmarks? 860 is a quick processor, 8gb of ram is quite a lot (you haven't specified the frequency). At a guess, the psu and motherboard are very budget and the case thermally ill designed. I haven't checked the full specs though.

It's almost certainly the graphics card. The kicker is that the psu is probably too weak to support a better one if you want to upgrade it. Here's hoping you're not a gamer.

Google thinks the gt230 is marginally slower than the 9600gt. Uses less power, ideal card if you never do anything in 3D.
 
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The CPU is only getting a score of around 4300
Ram is Kingston Hypex DDR3 1333mhz in 4 module of 2gb
Something's clearly a miss here.
Mobo bios update?
 
Bios update wont change performance. I've no idea if 4300 is good or not, but graphics performance should be terrible compared to anything 260gtx or above. Will have to wait for someone else to interpret windows benchmarks I'm afraid.

Quantity of ram won't affect performance, just affects how much data it can handle before writing anything to the hard drive paging file. Speed of the ram will have some impact, but not too much. Your cpu is pretty good, which brings me back to the graphics card.
 
Yeah. It's a mixture of the motherboard being a budget one, and that graphics card.

the GT230 is, as the others have said, a basic card thats basically to cover for the fact the motherboard doesn't have onboard graphics. It's most probably got enough power to perform basic things like run a windows 7 desktop with Aero.
 
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