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Less-Than-Shite Performance
Rodney 1.666:
To answer your queries one by one, jj:
Q.)
To be honest I don't know how to go about figuring out what my motherboard is, or what exactly you're asking about it. (Model number or just what it can do, etc?)
I have 1 PCI-E x16 slot.
My PSU is a GX 650W Cooler Master.
My case is just the original, also pictured above. (HP Pavilion a6352f)
S.)
My RAM is indeed DDR2.
Whenever I try to monitor hardware temps, I get cracked out results, so that's out. (And I'm sure they're find anyway, for the same reasons you gave.)
As for CPU release date, I bought this computer in March of 2007. It had all of the specs I listed in my original-original post, minus one gig of RAM.
It doesn't surprise me that the CPU is the most likely, because off age, and also because it's me and the most difficult, fragile, tedious, irreplaceable piece is what's going to not work...
--- Quote from: osaeed2k9 on September 22, 2010, 01:57:02 am ---Also, run ccleaner with custom settings and defrag the pc using Mydefrag.
Do some optimization and see if that helps.
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I optimize the living hell out of my system on a frequent basis, so that's not it. It's also been brought up twice already...
little 00:
Does your hl2 process crash often for you when you play games that have the hl2 engine? if so i have the same problem with different spec.
when in sinc my fps will start @ 75 and drop really slow until ges has a crash or when i exit ges hl2 crashes and i use task manager process tab to end it
out of sinc it wull run almost max and stay stable frame rate varries all the time anywhere from 50\ 40 in runway up to 300 and some times it reads a little over
heat is not a problem here
core 2 quad @2.33 ghz (Q8200)
4 gigs. ram @1066 mhz (in 1 gig sticks)
nvidia gtx 260 max core 55 (its over clock out of the box) v-ram is 896 mb GDDR3
mobo is an Asus P5Q pro turbo
650wat PSU
im runing windows 7 64 bit but set with dual boot win xp 32 bit
just built this 1 anout months ago
Rodney 1.666:
--- Quote from: little 00 on September 22, 2010, 04:45:12 am ---Does your hl2 process crash often for you when you play games that have the hl2 engine?
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Negative.
jjmusicnotes:
--- Quote from: Rodney 1.666 on September 22, 2010, 02:39:20 am ---To answer your queries one by one, jj:
Q.)
To be honest I don't know how to go about figuring out what my motherboard is, or what exactly you're asking about it. (Model number or just what it can do, etc?)
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The model number is fine (if you have it handy,) I wanted to look at a full list of your mobo's specs.
--- Quote from: Rodney 1.666 on September 22, 2010, 02:39:20 am ---S.)
Whenever I try to monitor hardware temps, I get cracked out results, so that's out. (And I'm sure they're find anyway, for the same reasons you gave.)
As for CPU release date, I bought this computer in March of 2007. It had all of the specs I listed in my original-original post, minus one gig of RAM.
It doesn't surprise me that the CPU is the most likely, because off age, and also because it's me and the most difficult, fragile, tedious, irreplaceable piece is what's going to not work...
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It makes me a little uncomfortable that you have wonky temp readings - but considering the age of your computer, and the fact that it was from large company - they probably didn't put temp sensors on the mobo, which would explain why you can't really get any readings.
I have HWMonitor in my rigs and on my 5yr old dell, the only temp that comes up is the hard drive. :P
Just to rule out the graphics card itself as a source of the problem, you could let your friend borrow the card and see if he has same / better results with it.
If they have a more recent setup and get higher FPS, then you'll have a much clearer answer. What would also be excellent is putting it in another comp that's approximately the same age as yours, and see if the results are the same / similar. I'm not really sure how feasible that is for you, but it's a possible trouble-shooting step that doesn't involve spending any $$, which is a good thing.
If it's not feasible, and you don't want to pony-up the dough for a newer CPU (it could even just be a better AM2+ socket,) then you could return your 460 and opt for something a little less recent, like a 260, or even a higher-end ATI HD 47XX or 5XXX series card.
Rodney 1.666:
--- Quote from: jjmusicnotes on September 22, 2010, 04:49:19 pm ---The model number is fine (if you have it handy,) I wanted to look at a full list of your mobo's specs.
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That'll take some digging, 'specially since I don't know where to look.
--- Quote from: jjmusicnotes on September 22, 2010, 04:49:19 pm ---It makes me a little uncomfortable that you have wonky temp readings - but considering the age of your computer, and the fact that it was from large company - they probably didn't put temp sensors on the mobo, which would explain why you can't really get any readings.
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Now that I think about it, the BIOS doesn't even display temperatures either.
--- Quote from: jjmusicnotes on September 22, 2010, 04:49:19 pm ---Just to rule out the graphics card itself as a source of the problem, you could let your friend borrow the card and see if he has same / better results with it.
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The only computer I have access to that's near the same age might be my bro's. (His has a dual CPU; no idea what it is yet.)
--- Quote from: jjmusicnotes on September 22, 2010, 04:49:19 pm ---If it's not feasible, and you don't want to pony-up the dough for a newer CPU (it could even just be a better AM2+ socket,) then you could return your 460 and opt for something a little less recent, like a 260, or even a higher-end ATI HD 47XX or 5XXX series card.
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If it's the CPU (or anything that isn't the card, for that matter), then won't I still have the same problem but even worse?
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