I need to diagnose/benchmark my desktop PC performance?

November 12, 2009

Hi there. Using the net and answers from the Yahoo community, i’ve now got a perfectly formatted PC running XP Pro.

It’s got an;
300GB SATA HD (for XP and progs) (defragged all good)
1TB SAMSUNG SATA HD (for storage)
Intel Core 2 CPU 6600@ 2.4ghz (2 CPU’s)
Gigabyte motherboard 965P DS3P
4GB of Ram
SB Live 24bit (yeah, it’s crap i know, but sound makes me sad)
NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800GTS 640mb

So everything should be hunky dory right? Time to play ma games right?
Wrong
this piece of crap can’t run my cool games properly, i mean, even OBLIVION stutters.
Call of Duty 4? 5 frames per second buddy.

In the meantime i’ve been playing freaking KOTOR, great game btw, but 5 years old!

so theres a problem, my awesome computer, runs like crap.

So my friends, help me before i just go out to the couch and turn on the PS3 and put my finger up at PC gaming forever.

i’d love if someone can point me in the direction of some diagnostics/benchmarking software so i can find the evil bottleneck! THANKS
by the way, i’d appreciate it if you could star me so i get mooooore lurve!

i’m using windows vista & its very slow especially when i using the internet…need help how to speed up my pc?

November 9, 2009

I have a HP A1720, 3gb ram, 320gb harddrive, windows visa 32bit, intel core 2 processor 6300 @ 1.87mhz.
i did almost everything i can think of such as, ran registry cleaner, ad-ware, spyware, spy bot, norton anti virus, did a disc clean, disc defragmentation with no help in the pc speed on the internet
i hav a high speed internet provided
i dont have too many icon on the desktop either
my pc performance base score is 2.8
processor sub score is 4.9
memory sub score is 5.2
gaming graphics sub score is 3.1
primary hard disc sub score is 5.6
graphics ..desktop performance for windows areo is 2.8

i suspect, my pc is slow because of the graphic or video card..mayb ei have to change it…
my pc video card is an intel(r) 82945G express chipset family…256mb grahhic memory

btw, when i used excel, word, its ok..its only when i’m using the internet

please advice what i need to do to speed up my pc performance when i’m on the internet since its running very slow on the internet

thanks

Best way to diagnose/benchmark my pc to find bottleneck?

November 5, 2009

Hi there. Using the net and answers from the Yahoo community, i’ve now got a perfectly formatted PC running XP Pro.

It’s got an;
300GB SATA HD (for XP and progs) (defragged all good)
1TB SAMSUNG SATA HD (for storage)
Intel Core 2 CPU 6600@ 2.4ghz (2 CPU’s)
Gigabyte motherboard 965P DS3P
4GB of Ram
SB Live 24bit (yeah, it’s crap i know, but sound makes me sad)
NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800GTS 640mb

So everything should be hunky dory right? Time to play ma games right?
Wrong
this piece of crap can’t run my cool games properly, i mean, even OBLIVION stutters.
Call of Duty 4? 5 frames per second buddy.

In the meantime i’ve been playing freaking KOTOR, great game btw, but 5 years old!

so theres a problem, my awesome computer, runs like crap.

So my friends, help me before i just go out to the couch and turn on the PS3 and put my finger up at PC gaming forever.

i’d love if someone can point me in the direction of some diagnostics/benchmarking software so i can find the evil bottleneck! THANKS
And yes, i know i’ve asked this question twice

MUHAHHAAHAHAHA I’M BUCKING THE SYSTEM!

(star pls!)
my drivers are up to date, and i even tried playing COD4 at 800×600 so don’t talk to me about lowering settings!!!
😀

Windows installer popping out on each Vista boot?

October 18, 2009

Hi all, I keep getting a Windows installer pop up window saying ‘preparing to install…’ and nothing more each time I boot into Vista. It only pops up then. I’m pretty confident it has to do with a corrupted installation of Symantec NIS, since I was unable to install it automatically and thus had to do it manually (deleting files, cleaning registry…)

I’ve tried disable the Windows Installer service but to no avail. I’ve also tried Microsoft Windows Install Clean Up tool, but the offending installation doesn’t show there (I guess it’s due to having removed it by hand).

Any help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks!
Oh sorry I meant I was unable to *uninstall* Symantec NIS automatically, that’s why I deleted it manually. I’ve done the registry cleanups with CCleaner btw.