Good day to you all! I am currently experiencing problems with my PC, problems that no one I've spoken to seems to quite know the cause of or the solution to. Of all the people I know personally, I have perhaps the highest PC knwledge, and frankly that doesn't say much, so here I am!
Simply put, my PC is experiencing some form of bottleneck. This is no minor bottleneck though, this is a bottleneck that makes this machine perform significantly worse than my friend's PC which is supposedly a fair bit weaker. I'll say right now that yes, I have the latest drivers, I've scanned for viri and spyware, and I've defragged my hard drives.
First off, here's what my system has going for it.
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3800+ (Clocks in at 2.4 Ghz, socket AM2)
Ram: 1 Gig of DDR2
GPU: Geforce 7600GS with 512 megs of Vram (AGP version, alas)
And this is performing worse than my friend's PC, which has the following.
CPU: AMD Sempron (I believe it clocks in at maybe 2 Ghz, will check this)
Ram: 512 megs of DDR
GPU: Geforce 6?00 with 512 megs Vram (Also AGP)
Something is clearly not right here. But it gets stranger. I gave 3DMark06 a twirl on this machine of mine, and it scored rather poorly. Hoping I could get things to work a little nicer by overclocking, I did so. But it was strange... No amount of overclocking of the CPU or GPU made an iota of difference to my scores and frame rates on 3DMark06.
With that overly long part explained, I can get into the question proper. Unless there's something wildly obvious I'm missing, I suspect it may well be my motherboard. I required a motherboard that could take a socket AM2 processor, as well as an AGP graphics card. The only one I could find that did that here in England was this one:
ASRock Motherboard - Product - AM2NF3-VSTA - Overview
So I must ask... Is this Motherboard the culprit? Or could it possibly be something else? What would you people of greater PC knowledge recommend?
...Hmm, this post was somewhat long... I certainly do like to waffle sometimes...
Many thanks,
Yalecsa
Simply put, my PC is experiencing some form of bottleneck. This is no minor bottleneck though, this is a bottleneck that makes this machine perform significantly worse than my friend's PC which is supposedly a fair bit weaker. I'll say right now that yes, I have the latest drivers, I've scanned for viri and spyware, and I've defragged my hard drives.
First off, here's what my system has going for it.
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3800+ (Clocks in at 2.4 Ghz, socket AM2)
Ram: 1 Gig of DDR2
GPU: Geforce 7600GS with 512 megs of Vram (AGP version, alas)
And this is performing worse than my friend's PC, which has the following.
CPU: AMD Sempron (I believe it clocks in at maybe 2 Ghz, will check this)
Ram: 512 megs of DDR
GPU: Geforce 6?00 with 512 megs Vram (Also AGP)
Something is clearly not right here. But it gets stranger. I gave 3DMark06 a twirl on this machine of mine, and it scored rather poorly. Hoping I could get things to work a little nicer by overclocking, I did so. But it was strange... No amount of overclocking of the CPU or GPU made an iota of difference to my scores and frame rates on 3DMark06.
With that overly long part explained, I can get into the question proper. Unless there's something wildly obvious I'm missing, I suspect it may well be my motherboard. I required a motherboard that could take a socket AM2 processor, as well as an AGP graphics card. The only one I could find that did that here in England was this one:
ASRock Motherboard - Product - AM2NF3-VSTA - Overview
So I must ask... Is this Motherboard the culprit? Or could it possibly be something else? What would you people of greater PC knowledge recommend?
...Hmm, this post was somewhat long... I certainly do like to waffle sometimes...
Many thanks,
Yalecsa
