TheSaint51
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My Setup:
AMD Athlon XP1700+ (Non-overclocked)
TT Volcano 5 Fan and Arctic Alumina for the CPU
Asus A7V266-E
512MB PC2100
Hercules Prophet 4500 64mb (KyroII)
Win2k Pro, latest 4-in-1
My Predicament:
When I'm playing a game, every ten minutes or so the whole screen would begin to lag and almost freeze up, this would last about 4 seconds and everything would just go right back to normal. I've also seen this happen when I'm not playing a game; I've recently started using LiteStep as a shell and I would see similar behavior at random times, and I can see that CPU usage is 100% during those few seconds of lag. Also, ever since the day I set up the system, cpu temperature monitoring progs have always reported my CPU temp ranging from 60-70 Celsius. I think this is too high but I've heard that Asus mobo's have an issue with reporting wrong CPU temp. so I didn't worry about it as much.
My Question:
What is the most likely thing that's wrong with the system? I thought Volcano 5 and Arctic Alumina would be good enough for a non-overclocked athlon xp cpu.. And just to be sure it isn't the case temperature, I even installed an extra pci-slot style case fan. So I'm at a loss here; this is supposed to be a very decent system but it keeps choking on me when I'm gaming. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
AMD Athlon XP1700+ (Non-overclocked)
TT Volcano 5 Fan and Arctic Alumina for the CPU
Asus A7V266-E
512MB PC2100
Hercules Prophet 4500 64mb (KyroII)
Win2k Pro, latest 4-in-1
My Predicament:
When I'm playing a game, every ten minutes or so the whole screen would begin to lag and almost freeze up, this would last about 4 seconds and everything would just go right back to normal. I've also seen this happen when I'm not playing a game; I've recently started using LiteStep as a shell and I would see similar behavior at random times, and I can see that CPU usage is 100% during those few seconds of lag. Also, ever since the day I set up the system, cpu temperature monitoring progs have always reported my CPU temp ranging from 60-70 Celsius. I think this is too high but I've heard that Asus mobo's have an issue with reporting wrong CPU temp. so I didn't worry about it as much.
My Question:
What is the most likely thing that's wrong with the system? I thought Volcano 5 and Arctic Alumina would be good enough for a non-overclocked athlon xp cpu.. And just to be sure it isn't the case temperature, I even installed an extra pci-slot style case fan. So I'm at a loss here; this is supposed to be a very decent system but it keeps choking on me when I'm gaming. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
