Ok a quick snapshot of the specs:
WIN XP 32bit.
4gigs DUAL channel OCZ Intel Extreme Edition DDR3
AMD PHENOM II 955BE DENEB 45nm
Gigabyte MA790XT-UD4P Bios F3
EVGA GTX275 w/1.8gigs video ram.
This is a system I built myself, when I fired it up stock it registered on windows as running at 1.6ghz. I scratched my head and wondered if mabee that was a mistake. I thought these chips came stock running at 2Ghz+, however, I went ahead and set up my software, and evin tried to play crysis. Fully expecting this game to run relatively smooth at 1920x1080 resolution on max. Boy was I in for a surprise, I understand that this a monster of a game. But I should be able to get better than 10-15 FPS. I had to bump it down to 800x600 and settings on medium before I evin got close to playable smooth.
Since the game was running like garbage, I went into my bios and changed the multiplier to x15 and kept everything else factory settings. now the machine is running at 3.0 GHZ...practicly no improvement whatsoever.
Now I wonder if its possible I got a defective chip. My dad has a 2 year old intel system build off an Intel core 2 duo and a 9800GT w/4gigs of corsair DDR2, which I swear gets better performance on crysis. This makes no sense to me, I cant imagine how the latest from AMD, OCZ,and NVIDEA is getting beat by an aging Intel chip, and older generation card w/ like half the video memory.
Am I missing something? Is there a way to download software to test the CPU? I got HOT-CPU Tester Pro, CPUZ,CPU stab test,and MEta Bench. But I am by no means an expert, so I dont evin know how to read the data that these progams spit out...nor do I know if they are evin the right kind of program. I installed Company of heros, it rated my CPU as "Poor"
If you need more information on my system, please let me know. Ill do my best to accommodate.(especially things like which chip set drivers etc are installed....ill need a little help finding that information)
Im trying to watch Streaming videos online and the system bogs down horrible...choppy choppy choppy(evin tabbing to another window makes this machine have to stop and think) yes im watching an HD stream...but its comcast 20mbps connection...that should handle a 720p signal smoothly.
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/ (if the link is not allowed please remove it. I apologize)
I hope I gave you enough information to help me come up with a solution...or am I just expecting too much from my machine? I really don't think so...since its pretty nice and brand new.
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WIN XP 32bit.
4gigs DUAL channel OCZ Intel Extreme Edition DDR3
AMD PHENOM II 955BE DENEB 45nm
Gigabyte MA790XT-UD4P Bios F3
EVGA GTX275 w/1.8gigs video ram.
This is a system I built myself, when I fired it up stock it registered on windows as running at 1.6ghz. I scratched my head and wondered if mabee that was a mistake. I thought these chips came stock running at 2Ghz+, however, I went ahead and set up my software, and evin tried to play crysis. Fully expecting this game to run relatively smooth at 1920x1080 resolution on max. Boy was I in for a surprise, I understand that this a monster of a game. But I should be able to get better than 10-15 FPS. I had to bump it down to 800x600 and settings on medium before I evin got close to playable smooth.
Since the game was running like garbage, I went into my bios and changed the multiplier to x15 and kept everything else factory settings. now the machine is running at 3.0 GHZ...practicly no improvement whatsoever.
Now I wonder if its possible I got a defective chip. My dad has a 2 year old intel system build off an Intel core 2 duo and a 9800GT w/4gigs of corsair DDR2, which I swear gets better performance on crysis. This makes no sense to me, I cant imagine how the latest from AMD, OCZ,and NVIDEA is getting beat by an aging Intel chip, and older generation card w/ like half the video memory.
Am I missing something? Is there a way to download software to test the CPU? I got HOT-CPU Tester Pro, CPUZ,CPU stab test,and MEta Bench. But I am by no means an expert, so I dont evin know how to read the data that these progams spit out...nor do I know if they are evin the right kind of program. I installed Company of heros, it rated my CPU as "Poor"
If you need more information on my system, please let me know. Ill do my best to accommodate.(especially things like which chip set drivers etc are installed....ill need a little help finding that information)
Im trying to watch Streaming videos online and the system bogs down horrible...choppy choppy choppy(evin tabbing to another window makes this machine have to stop and think) yes im watching an HD stream...but its comcast 20mbps connection...that should handle a 720p signal smoothly.
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/ (if the link is not allowed please remove it. I apologize)
I hope I gave you enough information to help me come up with a solution...or am I just expecting too much from my machine? I really don't think so...since its pretty nice and brand new.
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