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Bitching

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Posted: Wed, 15th Nov 2006 22:36 Post subject: Core 2 Duo	Quick Quote Quote

Ok... hmm... well, I'm ashamed to ask this, since I'm familiar with all available hardware, but I really need someone's help solving my problem. Purchased and installed a E6600 C2D processor with Asus P5N32 SLI Deluxe SE and 2GB of memory. Now that I've installed everything, it seems to work slow as hell (or I had high expectations of course). All the other parts (hard disks and other devices) were already available. Updated all drivers, nothing helps. My Pentium IV 3,2Ghz was faster than this. Only F.E.A.R. (only game I tested so far) seems to run about 10 frames higher than usual. But still, it might be because of the Windows reinstall. So any ideas for me ? How to test it properly, other drivers, BIOS settings, anything ?! Thanks in advance !

miragui

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Posted: Thu, 16th Nov 2006 05:14 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Do some benchmarks and compare them to some review sites like www.tomshardware.com www.anandtech.com www.guru3d.com and check if your system is far of the marks if so check the front side bus and the memory timings in the bios. Don't focus to much on game benchmarks since I assume you have the same videocard as before your core 2 system. Try some cpu intensive benchmarks (super pi some video encoding etc.) Good luck man. i7 3770k, GTX980, 16GB Ram, SSD Raid0, Internet 3rd world shit not worth mentioning

Bitching

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Posted: Thu, 16th Nov 2006 10:36 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Thanks for the feedback. It seems to be running faster with other games too, so I guess nothing's wrong. 3DMark also gave me a higher score. Nice

Glottis
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Posted: Thu, 16th Nov 2006 10:57 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Most of todays games are extremely heavy on VGA, so upgrading only cpu might not allways increase performance in some of them

Bitching

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Posted: Thu, 16th Nov 2006 11:40 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Yeah, that's also true of course. Videocard upgrade will eventually come, but that's somewhere in the first quarter of 2007, when DX10 games are going to be released.

CaptainCox
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Posted: Thu, 16th Nov 2006 19:34 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

The DX10 Cards are released...8800 GTX/GTS

Mortibus

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Posted: Thu, 16th Nov 2006 19:40 Post subject:

CaptainCox wrote:

The DX10 Cards are released...8800 GTX/GTS

yeah but no decent drivers[wait for about 3 to 6 month as always]
and he was talkin about games wich is not released either Smile

so as u can see no point in getting new dx10 cards coz there shit they can do,except maybe have extra fps in old games Wink

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