Good day,
I've recently built the following system:
AMD FX-53
MSI K8N NEO2 Platinum
OCZ 3200 EL 1 gig Memory
2 - WD 74 gig Raptor SATA drives
NEC dual layer dvd burner
485W True Blue Antec Power Supply
ThermalTake Tsunami Case
Radeon 9800 Pro (soon to be GeForce 6800 GT)
Dell 2001 FP LCD
all running a clean/fresh install of Windows XP Pro.
Here are the symptoms:
All windows have a tendency to stutter when they are maximized or minimized. Windows Explorer, Internet Explorer, Outlook, etc. IE: Click, slide show, full screen....Click, slide show, minimized.
While playing World of Warcraft at 1600x1200 with everything on max detail, I get some occassional stutter, nothing drastic, but noticeable. Happens maybe once every 45 seconds, but when it happens, I can hear the disk swapping for a brief moment.
Things I have checked:
The sata drivers are installed properly. The chipset drivers are installed properly. I am current on all windows updates, virus scan images, ad-aware, spy-bot, etc.
The total number of processes running during idle time is right at 22. Nothing out of the ordinary, all processes verified through www.liutilities.com.
System is not terribly hot, nor is the cpu.
BIOS settings are at optimized (default). I wanted to go for stability first and foremost, then performance tuning.
Swap file is set to 1.5gig max and min.
Fast Writes are off (no change with it on)
VSYNC is off (no change with it on)
AGP Aperture Size: 64meg
Raid is set up as 0, so it just shows one big drive. DMA is on.
Basically everything runs great, only get about 2500 marks in 3dMark2005 but I imagine the bottleneck there is my video card.
WoW looks gorgeous but with everything being so pristine and clear, I do notice the slight (very slight) delay in games.
The windows issue with maximizing and minimizing though is driving me nuts. I know it's difficult to explain it because there really isn't much going on with the system at that time. HOWEVER, I do see that when I maximize/minimize a window, my CPU % useage jumps to 100% for that brief moment. Again, there are no processes that are rogue or hogging cpu utilization.
Has anyone any advice for me? I could certainly use it.
I've recently built the following system:
AMD FX-53
MSI K8N NEO2 Platinum
OCZ 3200 EL 1 gig Memory
2 - WD 74 gig Raptor SATA drives
NEC dual layer dvd burner
485W True Blue Antec Power Supply
ThermalTake Tsunami Case
Radeon 9800 Pro (soon to be GeForce 6800 GT)
Dell 2001 FP LCD
all running a clean/fresh install of Windows XP Pro.
Here are the symptoms:
All windows have a tendency to stutter when they are maximized or minimized. Windows Explorer, Internet Explorer, Outlook, etc. IE: Click, slide show, full screen....Click, slide show, minimized.
While playing World of Warcraft at 1600x1200 with everything on max detail, I get some occassional stutter, nothing drastic, but noticeable. Happens maybe once every 45 seconds, but when it happens, I can hear the disk swapping for a brief moment.
Things I have checked:
The sata drivers are installed properly. The chipset drivers are installed properly. I am current on all windows updates, virus scan images, ad-aware, spy-bot, etc.
The total number of processes running during idle time is right at 22. Nothing out of the ordinary, all processes verified through www.liutilities.com.
System is not terribly hot, nor is the cpu.
BIOS settings are at optimized (default). I wanted to go for stability first and foremost, then performance tuning.
Swap file is set to 1.5gig max and min.
Fast Writes are off (no change with it on)
VSYNC is off (no change with it on)
AGP Aperture Size: 64meg
Raid is set up as 0, so it just shows one big drive. DMA is on.
Basically everything runs great, only get about 2500 marks in 3dMark2005 but I imagine the bottleneck there is my video card.
WoW looks gorgeous but with everything being so pristine and clear, I do notice the slight (very slight) delay in games.
The windows issue with maximizing and minimizing though is driving me nuts. I know it's difficult to explain it because there really isn't much going on with the system at that time. HOWEVER, I do see that when I maximize/minimize a window, my CPU % useage jumps to 100% for that brief moment. Again, there are no processes that are rogue or hogging cpu utilization.
Has anyone any advice for me? I could certainly use it.
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