possible bottleneck?

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Frxion

Geek Trainee
Hey guys,

I have the feeling that my computer might not function as well as it should.
I have the feeling that there is a bottleneck in my computer since it does not
perform the way i feel it should. a friend of mine has a comparable cpu and a somewhat worse gfx card but still gets highers framerates in games then me (same settings ofcourse) is my Motherboard holding me back( or any other part for that matter)?

Specs:

MOBO: GIGABYTE EX38-DS4 (Intel X38 chipset)
CPU: Intel Core2Quad Q6600 (Stock @ 2,4 GHz, 1066 MHz BUS)
GFX Card: ATI RADEON HD 5850 (1024 MB GDDR5 SDRAM)
Memory: 4096MB (4x 1024 MB : Corsair CM2X1024-6400c4 @ 400 MHz)
Harddisk: Hitachi Sata 500 GB


Also i have the latest video card drivers yes :)

help would be appreciated.
oh and by the way, its not that my PC is full or has virus/adware/malware and shit, cause a clean install didnt make any difference.
 
Welcome to HWF :)

It could be caused by the speed of your RAM or hard disk. Each motherboard can give a slightly different performance, but it won't really be noticeable.
 
Welcome to HWF :)

It could be caused by the speed of your RAM or hard disk. Each motherboard can give a slightly different performance, but it won't really be noticeable.
 
Frixion, I wonder if you can say - was yr PC like yr friends and has just recently slowed-down?

First thing is to Defrag the HDD (you don't mention this), -then check it for errors - if it's about to fail it might take ages searching for a decent part to write, hence the go-slow.
- - - - - then look for a virus, perhaps.
 
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