- Joined
- Mar 23, 2006
- Location
- US West Coast
Background:
Used to have a really stellar system (Ultra 320 SCSI RAID 5, P4 3.0, 2g RAM, Nvidia 7800, running on XP Pro) that one day (after 3 yrs) the mobo fried along with 3/4 of the RAM - don't know if the CPU survived, but decided to just upgrade everything and so I wouldn't need it.
Order a Pentium dual core 6600 2.4 (socket 775), Asus P5N32 SLI-SE mobo, 4g RAM, new PSU (Enermax 1000w gamer's edition) and decide to recycle pretty much everything else. Unfortunately I discover that the SCSI PCI card won't work on the mobo - system just won't get past windows install and after reading a ton about problems on the web, it comes down to legacy PCI devices not working in the newer mobo's. Disappointing to lose a very fast array, but ok, time to move on - add a Raptor 10k HD to the mix.
Problem:
At first I load up XP Pro but the system seems more sluggish than my old setup, and only 3g of the 4g of RAM is recognised (I figured out why with a bit of research). So, I decide, I got the dual core, wth, let's try out XP Pro
x64 and so far it's been a disaster.
My secondary system (P4 1.5 with 756megs of RAM, XP Home) operates faster and smoother than my dual-core with 4g. In my old system I could open 20 IE windows at a time, or maybe 150 in day before the system bogged down and I'd have to reboot. With my present x64 system it starts to bog down after 6 windows, plus just opening windows is considerably less responsive. Also the sound is corrupted - I can play music files ok, but any background sound breaks up very badly. I have SP 1 installed but not SP 2 (didn't know SP 2 was available for x64, but some posts here suggest it is - however I don't expect it would make a drastic difference). Open a few windows then try and play a music file and the file plays very slowly and broken up - somehow I'm using up ALL my memory and not getting any back.
I've loaded the newest 64-bit sound drivers, the newest 64-bit video drivers (I have dual SLI Nvidia GTS). Just for fun I tried overclocking the system using the mobo utility to 120%, the system ran so slow it took about 15 min to go reset the overclock to default - I had to wait over a minute everytime I clicked on something for the system to catch up. When I open IE to a blank page, the system uses 60% of the CPU.
I tried installing Everquest 2 on the system, and it took 5 hours! to read from each dvd!!! And the best part is the game won't even run, installs all the way, but ultimately just shuts down (though the process is still active) when I hit "play". World of Warcraft installed fine, and even played ok until I started to move around in the game, then I got stuttering graphics.
Suggestions?
Used to have a really stellar system (Ultra 320 SCSI RAID 5, P4 3.0, 2g RAM, Nvidia 7800, running on XP Pro) that one day (after 3 yrs) the mobo fried along with 3/4 of the RAM - don't know if the CPU survived, but decided to just upgrade everything and so I wouldn't need it.
Order a Pentium dual core 6600 2.4 (socket 775), Asus P5N32 SLI-SE mobo, 4g RAM, new PSU (Enermax 1000w gamer's edition) and decide to recycle pretty much everything else. Unfortunately I discover that the SCSI PCI card won't work on the mobo - system just won't get past windows install and after reading a ton about problems on the web, it comes down to legacy PCI devices not working in the newer mobo's. Disappointing to lose a very fast array, but ok, time to move on - add a Raptor 10k HD to the mix.
Problem:
At first I load up XP Pro but the system seems more sluggish than my old setup, and only 3g of the 4g of RAM is recognised (I figured out why with a bit of research). So, I decide, I got the dual core, wth, let's try out XP Pro
x64 and so far it's been a disaster.
My secondary system (P4 1.5 with 756megs of RAM, XP Home) operates faster and smoother than my dual-core with 4g. In my old system I could open 20 IE windows at a time, or maybe 150 in day before the system bogged down and I'd have to reboot. With my present x64 system it starts to bog down after 6 windows, plus just opening windows is considerably less responsive. Also the sound is corrupted - I can play music files ok, but any background sound breaks up very badly. I have SP 1 installed but not SP 2 (didn't know SP 2 was available for x64, but some posts here suggest it is - however I don't expect it would make a drastic difference). Open a few windows then try and play a music file and the file plays very slowly and broken up - somehow I'm using up ALL my memory and not getting any back.
I've loaded the newest 64-bit sound drivers, the newest 64-bit video drivers (I have dual SLI Nvidia GTS). Just for fun I tried overclocking the system using the mobo utility to 120%, the system ran so slow it took about 15 min to go reset the overclock to default - I had to wait over a minute everytime I clicked on something for the system to catch up. When I open IE to a blank page, the system uses 60% of the CPU.
I tried installing Everquest 2 on the system, and it took 5 hours! to read from each dvd!!! And the best part is the game won't even run, installs all the way, but ultimately just shuts down (though the process is still active) when I hit "play". World of Warcraft installed fine, and even played ok until I started to move around in the game, then I got stuttering graphics.
Suggestions?