[thergador]

Originally Posted by Golly

did stress testing on an old sandra sisoft thing and also on some various other programs i grabbed off the net, also used a prog to defrag but its not just general pc being a bit slow problems, its a recurring fault of some kind that means the pc incurs a minor lag spike every few seconds when anything is asked of the cpu

psu is a 550 and its got one cd rw, then all the standards (one hdd one gfx card and motherboard stuff)- could be dodgy cables i guess

whenever you open up somethin like mozilla or w/e, just a random fairly low profile program resource wise, does your cpu always max out load on initial startup? my used ram space is never below 650mb/1024mb so its not the ram, its not a virus, iv run bit defender / kasperspy / avg / pconpoint / adaware and spybot- found some malware but nothing really destructive, and its clean now but still has the same problems

iv been checking any datadumps and replaced a dodgy .dll file i had, and re reg'd it, that hasnt made any difference

the rigs not overheating (50c), and SHOULD have sufficient power, its just still running awfully slow :<

do stress test with
prime95,
atitool(test for artifacts, can be used with Gforce aswell)
memtest86

will take about 2 to 3 days for them to fully stress test

other than that
check your HD status ie %full etc if poss enable SMART in the bios and check the results