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That's a great place to start, imho. Clunk's is a nice noob friendly place with a hell of a lot of info. Give us the name of the mobo/psu if you can, or a link to where you got the PC/parts from - we can start there ![]() |
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I'm simply amazed by how all over the place people's experiences are. You have the same motherboard as me (plus a few bells and whistles) a better proc. (except for mine is OC'd).and a WAY better vid card, yet your having a worse experience. It's really unbelievable, but I guess that's just how computers are.
Assuming that you have the same Bios as I have, your board, while not being an overclocker's dream isn't to difficult to OC. I'll make another post with some basic instructions for you as soon as I stick my head in the bios to make sure I remember everything right. I'm still confounded though, I can slide the canopy back and stick my head out in front of the exhaust and the frames don't waver with my GTX 470! Maybe it is the OC?
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If it's graphic effects causing a slowdown, I doubt if it's anything to do with the CPU. I would also be very careful of trying to OC if you don't know what you are doing. That way lies smoking ruin for your PC.
Are you sure it's the exhaust and not the mirror? With your PC you should definitely get pretty reasonable performance. |
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A quick and easy test would be to run a program(s) that displays a graph of CPU usage and GPU usage. In times of low fps as you describe, I'd expect to see the CPU working at 95-100%, and the GPU load dropping a little - though the GPU load may not drop at all, depending on what's going on and what screen resolution you're running at. Overclocking is inherently dangerous, but that's why I directed Houndstone to an overclocking beginner's site - I won't be telling him to "press del on bootup and whack CPU voltage to 1.4 and yer done" - like anything fun in life - if approached in the wrong way it can indeed be dangerous/costly. Done in the correct, slow and safe way, there's very little risk involved. |
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Took another screenshot with the task manager performance tab running.
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Hmm, That doesn't prove much, tbh. With a quad core, windows would be sharing some of the work by default anyways, but seeing that one core running >90% tells me that it could well be the issue.
It's up to you really, mate - if you're willing to risk-it-for-a-biscuit, overclocking almost certainly would help - the other options are to buy a faster CPU or upgrade to Win 7. The rest of the rig is definitely up to the task imo. If you do decide to OC - read that beginners guide. Then read it again. Probably best to do it a third time before you even get into the BIOS. A friend who knows what he's doing on hand to help would be good - but as long as you take it slowly and try to learn rather than blindly follow instructions, you should be fine ![]() Feel free to PM me if you need any help, whichever way you go. |
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