I posted earlier in the upgrade section, because I was thinking of changing my cpu because i thought it wasnt good enough, but now i think it maybe graphics related...
Original post here.
This is the sytem i recently bought, ready built.
- AMD Athlon 64 4000 San Diego (Socket 939) Dual DDR400 CPU
- AMD Freezer 64 Pro Approved Cooler
- Asus A8N-SLi Premium (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard
- 2GB (2x1GB) DDR PC4000 Dual Channel Kit
- 250GB Western Digital Caviar SE16 16mb cache SATA-2 Hard Drive
- NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB DDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card
- NEC ND4570 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter
- Onboard Sound
- Tagan TG600-U25 600W Dual Engine ATX2.01 SLi Compliant Silent PSU
When i got my rig about a month ago it was excellent. I was playing games such as Dawn of War: winter assault and X3:reunion, on the highest graphics and performance settings with no problems at all. Then the Graphics card (7900GTX) died and I had a problem with windows only being able to start up in safe mode. I got in touch with the retailer and sent back the rig on their advice. They replaced my graphics card with a new 7900GTX, sorted the windows issue and sent it back.
Now, Whenever I play games, there is definite difference in performance. I get slight stuttering or very short pauses. I just got Company of heroes yesterday, that puts quite a lot of strain on the system, and get lots of small lock ups and sound errors (stuttering and such.) And the problem isn't just related to quite recent games. I also have medieval Total war Gold edition that also suffers from these issues.
Here's a system overview taken with 3dmark06 showing the cpu and graphics card stats. Does everything look as it should?
Original post here.
This is the sytem i recently bought, ready built.
- AMD Athlon 64 4000 San Diego (Socket 939) Dual DDR400 CPU
- AMD Freezer 64 Pro Approved Cooler
- Asus A8N-SLi Premium (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard
- 2GB (2x1GB) DDR PC4000 Dual Channel Kit
- 250GB Western Digital Caviar SE16 16mb cache SATA-2 Hard Drive
- NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB DDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card
- NEC ND4570 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter
- Onboard Sound
- Tagan TG600-U25 600W Dual Engine ATX2.01 SLi Compliant Silent PSU
When i got my rig about a month ago it was excellent. I was playing games such as Dawn of War: winter assault and X3:reunion, on the highest graphics and performance settings with no problems at all. Then the Graphics card (7900GTX) died and I had a problem with windows only being able to start up in safe mode. I got in touch with the retailer and sent back the rig on their advice. They replaced my graphics card with a new 7900GTX, sorted the windows issue and sent it back.
Now, Whenever I play games, there is definite difference in performance. I get slight stuttering or very short pauses. I just got Company of heroes yesterday, that puts quite a lot of strain on the system, and get lots of small lock ups and sound errors (stuttering and such.) And the problem isn't just related to quite recent games. I also have medieval Total war Gold edition that also suffers from these issues.
Here's a system overview taken with 3dmark06 showing the cpu and graphics card stats. Does everything look as it should?
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Manufacturer AMD
Family AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 4000+
Architecture 64-bit
Internal Clock 2.4 GHz
Internal Clock Maximum 2.4 GHz
External Clock 200.0 MHz
Socket Designation Socket 939
Upgrade Socket 939
MultiCore 1 Processor Core
HyperThreadingTechnology N/A
Capabilities MMX, CMov, RDTSC, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, PAE, NX
Version AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 4000+
Caches
Level 1 128 KB
Level 2 1 MB
WinFast PX7900 GTX Driver 8.3.9.1
Description WinFast PX7900 GTX
Manufacturer Leadtek Research Inc.
Total Local Video Memory 512 MB
Total Local Texture Memory 754 MB
AGP Aperture Size 0 B
Driver File nv4_disp.dll
Driver Version 8.3.9.1
Driver Date 2-13-2006
Driver WHQL Certified false
Max Texture Width 4096 px
Max Texture Height 4096 px
Max User Clipping Planes 6
Max Active Hardware Lights 8
Max Texture Blending Stages 8
Fixed Function Textures In Single Pass 8
Vertex Shader Version 3.0
Pixel Shader Version 3.0
Max Vertex Blend Matrices 0
Max Texture Coordinates 8
VGA Memory Clock 0.0 Hz
VGA Core Clock 0.0 Hz
PCI
Name WinFast PX7900 GTX
Vendor ID 0x10de
Device ID 0x0290
SubSystem ID 0x2a60107d
Revision ID 0x00a1
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Bus
Type PCI Express
Revision 1.0
Enabled true
Rate 16
Sideband Addressing Not Supported
Fast Write Not Supported