Massive performance drop!
Hello again, mishap man is back!
My PC's gradually been getting slower, much to my irritation. Taking place over the last 2-3 days my framerate has been dropping. This happens to have started at the same time as I got my new monitor which is now running in side by side with another one. Could this be causing it? If not what is?
Issue 2: I've got some annoying problem with my RAM in that I can't get my Kingston HyperX DDR2 800MHz (stock) RAM to run dual channel, overclocked or not. Single channel it works fine, but will crash if I do so much as open My Documents in dual channel.
PC STATS:
2.6GHz Core 2 Duo E6750 @ 3.3GHz (Stable)
2x1024 800MHz chips @ 950MHz, single channel (Stable)
ASUS P5N-E SLi
Thanks in advance
EDIT: My performance has also dropped in that while playing some games it will slow down and accellerate, like a learner driver going up a hill.
My PC's gradually been getting slower, much to my irritation. Taking place over the last 2-3 days my framerate has been dropping. This happens to have started at the same time as I got my new monitor which is now running in side by side with another one. Could this be causing it? If not what is?
Issue 2: I've got some annoying problem with my RAM in that I can't get my Kingston HyperX DDR2 800MHz (stock) RAM to run dual channel, overclocked or not. Single channel it works fine, but will crash if I do so much as open My Documents in dual channel.
PC STATS:
2.6GHz Core 2 Duo E6750 @ 3.3GHz (Stable)
2x1024 800MHz chips @ 950MHz, single channel (Stable)
ASUS P5N-E SLi
Thanks in advance
EDIT: My performance has also dropped in that while playing some games it will slow down and accellerate, like a learner driver going up a hill.
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Often times when someone has a decent machine like yours and their performance starts to wane, it's because of the page file not clearing on restart or whatnot. You DO restart your computer about once a week, right? Well let's assume you do and this is happening because your page file is too small. You can just go into your system properties (Rightclick the My Computer icon and choose properties) and go to the Advanced tab and click the Settings button in the top little box that says Performance. Go to the Advanced tab, and you'll see another box called Virtual Memory. I always say that if you have 1024mb, your virtual memory should be 1153-2650 or something like that. 2048 is -1153-2048 since you have more physical memory, and anything over 3072 can safely disable it if they so choose. I still run my page file 2048-4095 because I switch from games to image editors and even though I'll never fill all of my memory I can still use the extra reading speed.
If that doesn't work you might wanna try deleting all of your temporary files and see if that helps. I've heard it does but I never had to do it. Also, I do hope your defragging regular too.
EDIT: My pagefile is 2GB, normal?
Even though WoW isn't very hard on hardware,at 1680 res, a 7600 will come up short unless you supertweak both windows and WoW itself and turn off all candy.