Recent content by alphabravoj5t

what do you mean 'what mode'?

first of all i have two systems (not bragging, just background info on specs): system 1 CPU: e8400 @3ghz MOBO: 780i SLI RAM: a-data 2gb 800mhz GFX: 8800gtx OS: Windows XP home sp3 HDD: 7200.11 500gb 32mb PSU: 700w FSP system 2 CPU: e8400 @3ghz MOBO: Asus P5Q Pro...

yes.. i manually adjusted the ram speed to 1066 and the voltage to 2.1 as it says on the RAM packaging; NEWS: i just plugged in an older HDD, a 7200.10, that has only 8mb of cache and its no upgrade,.. its only slightly slower than my primary 7200.11 32mb 500gb hdd note: I had the same...

my HDD was benchmarked at 90mb/s, 12ms random access, so thats good. PSU sensor readings: cpu core: 2.43 volts; Aux - 3.52 v; +3.3v @ 3.31v; +5v @ 5.51v; +12V @ 12.83v; -5v @ 4.00V also: something interesting.. I have 1066 RAM im running,.. referred to the motherboard book and its listed as...

Seagate is indeed the manufacterer of the barracuda. I ran SeaTools (their utility) and everything checks out fine. the HDD passed all of the tests. I agree with you, though, i believe its the HDD. or something is holding my processor back. i will run memtest tonight.

only System Idle Process is using 99 CPU but 28k mem usage

This is a fresh build; everything is new. It has no viruses and only one program ever installed on it, thats MS Office. BIOS is up to date, so are motherboard and graphics drivers. computer is running slow. MS Word documents are slow to open and close when handling SMALL (<1mb) documents...