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help! performance slow on my new PC!


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I bought this low end PC circa Jan 2007.

Intel Core2Duo E6600 2.4GHZ OCed 3.0GHZ

Asus P5B-E Plus

1GB DDR667 Twin-X

XFX XXX Geforce 7600GT DDDR3 256MB

Sound Blaster X-FI XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional

500 GB Seagate SATAII HDD with Perpendicular recording

DVDRW NEC 16X

Coolermaster 600W Extreme PSU

Windows Vista Home Premium

Performance was slow with/ withaout Aero!! Downloaded latest drivers from nvidia, asus and creative. But the performance was still slow. The cursor was lagging and opening applications took at least 30 seconds. Bootup took 10 minutes. I think I wasted my money on such a crappy system. I got 0.2 for the Windows Experience Index and weakest link.. is my CPU. What teh heck?? I should have bought a Pentium D. Much higher clock speed. someone help? Do i have to reinstall vista? That would take at least 5 hours :(

Edited by Mcky

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Is your hard drive set to FAT32 or NTFS? Recovery partitions should be left alone. But you may need to convert your drive with Windows on it to NTFS.

Who is the manufacturer of your computer?

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ripken204 is on the ball, definite possibility that it's the thermal protection from the CPU, it's overheating and throttling down.

Try changing "OCed 3.0GHZ" to blank. Your machine should be very fast without overclocking, set everything to auto in the bios then see how it's performing.

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First, I'd run your CPU at stock speed until you solve the issue :whistle:

Have you installed the Intel inf drivers for your CPU? Should be the first drivers you install after booting into OS first time after clean install.

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