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!

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!!!
😀

Dead Mobo, windows not booting on new mobo?

September 20, 2009

This happens all the time!!! it drives me crazy, i got a corrupted hal.dll at first and just fixed that, not it restart when windows just finish loading. Repair windows option is not available, is there a way to force it? I tried running windows xp in safe mode and install xp, but it keeps telling my key is not correct. So i tried Vista, but i didnt have a key, so i just choose the no key option which i need to activate in 30days or it wont work anymore. But it says cannot upgrade in safe mode! Is there any way to bypass this, i read around alot n there was ways to swap mobo through microsoft software, but mine is dead. I have no clue!!! Please HELP. THX!!
I know y it doesn’t work, but does anyone know how to fix it? Where is the drivers and stuff located thats causing this? Is it possible to install the same XP on a different hdd on teh same comp, then just swaping the drivers/files to the old hdd? but then were is the file.
Its from a amd processor to a amd processor amd to my p4 intel works. o.O
I dont like vista also, but even that dont work so idk. There are alot of games and programs there too so thats something that i dont think slave would work in. but thx
My old 200 GB is a slave and my 40GB is on master, BUT i can run my preinstalled GAMES or PROGS… which is most of my disk space.