PC is acting.. weird....
by Kevin Erkelenz · in Hardware Issues · 07/29/2009 (12:45 am) · 2 replies
Hello,
When it comes to my computer I experience something I hope others experience as well otherwise I would feel very alone, my computer grows on me and I take care of it and build some sort of personal relationship to it I guess or who ever else to explain it. Not that Im crazy but I mean that I just know when somethings not right and thats the case here.
I dont know what it is but it seems that my Q6600 Intel is under way too much load all the time since my last time formatting and all games have less performance which is redicilous since i went back to 64bit from 32bit!! Its not the 64bit OS thats making things odd because i had the same exact copy installed before but I formatted back to XP 32 and back to Vista 64 because it was hard to let go. ;) I dont know what it is and I was wondering if theres any kind of tool that checks if the cpu and gpu is functioning properly and if theres anything different with the clocking that shouldnt be, any help is greatly appreciated.
When it comes to my computer I experience something I hope others experience as well otherwise I would feel very alone, my computer grows on me and I take care of it and build some sort of personal relationship to it I guess or who ever else to explain it. Not that Im crazy but I mean that I just know when somethings not right and thats the case here.
I dont know what it is but it seems that my Q6600 Intel is under way too much load all the time since my last time formatting and all games have less performance which is redicilous since i went back to 64bit from 32bit!! Its not the 64bit OS thats making things odd because i had the same exact copy installed before but I formatted back to XP 32 and back to Vista 64 because it was hard to let go. ;) I dont know what it is and I was wondering if theres any kind of tool that checks if the cpu and gpu is functioning properly and if theres anything different with the clocking that shouldnt be, any help is greatly appreciated.
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Also check the Memory group, see if anything is eating up your memory, and see how much Physical Memory you have left. Also check the "Hard Faults/min" column, and see if any app is swapping to the drive like a madman (0 is best).
You might also check the Network utilization. This is handy if you have a rogue app on your network sending out spam. But hopefully you have virus protection installed - so just to be safe, boot into safe mode and do a full scan.
07/29/2009 (7:44 pm)
Also, since you're on Vista, you can use the "Reliability and Performance Monitor" app in Administrative tools. Check the CPU group, see if there are any applications hogging the CPU. Sometimes things can go wrong, and a process will sit and spin, eating up an entire CPU core. Also check the Memory group, see if anything is eating up your memory, and see how much Physical Memory you have left. Also check the "Hard Faults/min" column, and see if any app is swapping to the drive like a madman (0 is best).
You might also check the Network utilization. This is handy if you have a rogue app on your network sending out spam. But hopefully you have virus protection installed - so just to be safe, boot into safe mode and do a full scan.
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What in particular is suffering performance? HDD speed? GPU speed?
Intel offers several processor utilities on their website for monitoring speeds and getting cpu id's, etc. Maybe one of them can help?