Zeno~SPARTA~ Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 I am worried that my PC is slowing down. Whilst playing GRID I find that I am the last to join the race and yet my PC is now slouch To try to isolate the problem I ran 3D mark 06, with these results: SM2 4079 SM3 4738 CPU 2822 Overall 10163 I did this a year ago SM2 5606 SM3 5676 CPU 4737 Overall 13709 the main differences are: last year I was using XP I now have 4gigs of ram instead of 2. I have 5 hard drives instead of 4 Is there a test for the processor and for the GPU here are my components Intel Core 2 Duo QX6850 3.0 Ghz Asus Striker Extreme nVidia nForce680i SLI X16 with passive cooling 4Gb DDR2 OCZ Reaper 4-4-4-15 Asus Extreme En8800 GTX ULTRA - 768 MB 150 GB Raptor 300 GB WD 750 GB WD x3 Zalman Fatal1ty case PSU Thermaltake 850W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeno~SPARTA~ Posted March 2, 2009 Author Share Posted March 2, 2009 I ran Asus smartdoctor, probeII and CPUz Asus Smart Doctor GPU temp 73c ram temp 61c Engine 612 MHz Memory 2160 MHz Shader 1512 MHz Probe II No anomolous readings Memory 2.16v CPUz When I ran this I found the Clocks multiplier set to 6x, giving me 2.0GHz overall, I have corrected this to stock (9x) and restored to 3.0GHz I reran 3Dmark SM2 5421 SM3 5798 CPU 3984 Overall 13214 I can accept this small variation and put it down to vista versus XP. I have been playing with an underclocked pc for months and apart from being slow to join GRID multiplayer I never noticed. sorry to have wasted space here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoScream~SPARTA~ Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 Doctor, How old is the patient? Take 2 aspirin and some rest .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athlon64~SPARTA~ Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 Sounds like some how the bios settings got reset, Like maybe useing one of the asus mobo programs might have reset it on you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeno~SPARTA~ Posted March 2, 2009 Author Share Posted March 2, 2009 I wish I could blame the bios program, but I only changed the bios a couple of weeks ago and never touched it before then. However i may have had a fiddle with the multiplyer to OC it a bit and when I may have hit the 6 instead of the 9 when I reset it. Maybe I do need to take the tablets, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athlon64~SPARTA~ Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 HA HA! Well probley not the first time and probley not the last time it will happen LOL! Im gilty of that my self. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathrus~SPARTA~ Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 OOF! why would you need to OC that beast? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krambo Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 I know on my BIOS version the multiplier is locked to X9. Glad you got it sorted anyway mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athlon64~SPARTA~ Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 (edited) Well in the past I would clock up the ram to see how far it would go before it crashed. It can be confuseing as to what to set the mulityplayer at sometimes if the info is not with it. Sometimes you have to go to the cpu webb sight to find out whats it suppost to be for a certian model. I run mine at stock default. If its suppost to be at 9 and its set to 6, well your loseing valueible power. Like dissconecting the secondarys on a 4 bbl carb. Edited March 2, 2009 by Athlon64~SPARTA~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halli~SPARTA~ Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 Haha Zeno I know how you feel buddy if you remember last year not long after I built my machine I had a similar problem and I posted that I needed help when low and behold I found that my clock was at 2.00 (6x) rather than the (9x). This is why it is great to have other members using very similar hardware as we can get the gist on problems this is great now you can get back to smoking us all in game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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