So I built myself a new computer a few months ago, q6600, 4 gb ram, Asus P5n-e SLI board, GeForce 8800 GTX, onboard audio with Vista.
Only recently (the last few weeks) my computer started acting slightly funny. Usually it can multi task like a beast, play videos, music, browse the internet (firefox), play games all at one time without even hiccuping. However, now if I have just winamp running, or maybe a video on youtube running, and I happen to load another media intensive website (like nbcolympics.com) at the same time, the original video or winamp song will become all distorted and slowdown the playback dramatically until the media intensive page is finished loading all the way, which is when it goes back to normal. In addition, my mouse will even start to lag and jump everywhere. Another thing I noticed is that my sidebar cpu load monitor seems to show that when I load just a simple media intensive website all cpu's spike near 100% until finished loading. That seems very unusual to me. However, when I have my task manager open while I load a page and view all the processes and how much cpu % they are taking, it doesn't seem like it adds up to 100% while the sidebar monitor (which is usually accurate) is showing full load (which it shouldn't even be near to anyways). One last thing is that this usually doesn't happen right after a reboot, it'll usually take a few hrs of regular computer usage before this starts happening, however I don't think its a memory leak since my 4gb's of ram almost never reach even 60% utilized. Also the temp's aren't out of control it doesn't look like.
So I tried to lay out all the data that I've seen. Please let me know if you guys have any more question which might give you more needed information. I have a few ideas which are bouncing around my head: 1) Maybe my onboard audio is having a meltdown after a few hours of use and it cant handle all the processes. Would it really lag down the whole computer and make it jumpy though? 2) Maybe I accidentally switched a setting wrong in the bios and now the cpu's aren't quite splitting the work correctly, therefore making just loading a media intensive page completely dominate my cpu resources until it's finished?
Thanks in advance guys =)
-Bryan
Only recently (the last few weeks) my computer started acting slightly funny. Usually it can multi task like a beast, play videos, music, browse the internet (firefox), play games all at one time without even hiccuping. However, now if I have just winamp running, or maybe a video on youtube running, and I happen to load another media intensive website (like nbcolympics.com) at the same time, the original video or winamp song will become all distorted and slowdown the playback dramatically until the media intensive page is finished loading all the way, which is when it goes back to normal. In addition, my mouse will even start to lag and jump everywhere. Another thing I noticed is that my sidebar cpu load monitor seems to show that when I load just a simple media intensive website all cpu's spike near 100% until finished loading. That seems very unusual to me. However, when I have my task manager open while I load a page and view all the processes and how much cpu % they are taking, it doesn't seem like it adds up to 100% while the sidebar monitor (which is usually accurate) is showing full load (which it shouldn't even be near to anyways). One last thing is that this usually doesn't happen right after a reboot, it'll usually take a few hrs of regular computer usage before this starts happening, however I don't think its a memory leak since my 4gb's of ram almost never reach even 60% utilized. Also the temp's aren't out of control it doesn't look like.
So I tried to lay out all the data that I've seen. Please let me know if you guys have any more question which might give you more needed information. I have a few ideas which are bouncing around my head: 1) Maybe my onboard audio is having a meltdown after a few hours of use and it cant handle all the processes. Would it really lag down the whole computer and make it jumpy though? 2) Maybe I accidentally switched a setting wrong in the bios and now the cpu's aren't quite splitting the work correctly, therefore making just loading a media intensive page completely dominate my cpu resources until it's finished?
Thanks in advance guys =)
-Bryan
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