My Compurter is a Dog.....Should be lightning fast ....

[EvilHomer]

I keep upgrading but Im still getting lag and seems way too slow for what I got in it... I have AMD Athlon 64 3500+...ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe ...3gb of Patriot Dual Chan DDR400 MEM (2 x 512 & 2 x 1gb) SAPPHIRE RX1900XT 512M 100149L Retail...(Just replaced 2 x 6600GT cards) Antec TruePower 2.0 TP2-550 PSW ...6 HDs 3 SATA (400gb, 300gb, 250gb) 3 IDE (250gb, 120gb, 80gb).....Minimal overclocking ...Im getting lag when I have a few windows open a once and also lags during games like Titan quest, Rome TW Alexander and Prey using the games default settings...Is this normat ..Its only a slight (if any improvement over the 2 6600gt GPU's and 1gb of ram...am I missing settings in the bios ..Temps seem ok..

 

[SparkyJJO]

With athlon 64 chips I know that if you have all four DIMM slots filled the memory ends up running slower at DDR333 instead of full speed. 3GB of RAM is a little overkill, try removing the 2x 512MB sticks to get the RAM back up to full speed and just see what happens.

How many background processes do you have? If you have a lot or just some resource hogs it could slow you down. Since your CPU is only a single core it can only handle one thread at a time, so if you have a lot of stuff in the background wanting the CPU to do stuff it'll cause other things to lag. Right now I only have 38 processes running, that includes zonealarm firewall, avg antivirus, AIM, google talk, and my pda hotsync software.

If you have alot running in the background and need most of that running a dual-core CPU would help alot. You could assign stuff that uses the CPU heavily to one core and games to the other.

BTW, defrag your HD lately?

 

[Bobthelost]

Spyware?

 

[mc866]

Not sure if it would make a big difference but you could try using just the 2x1gb sticks of ram. With the amount you have in there I'm guessing the RAM is running at 2T. If you use just the 2 sticks it should run at 1T. That could help speed things up a bit. Also you may have a bit of a bottleneck in your processor. Now that some of the price cuts from AMD have started you could look into getting an X2 processor at a good price.

 

[ForumMaster]

as Sparky said, try removing the extra gig of ram to see if it helps. another idea: since the prices for amd's cpu's are so drastic, why not upgrade your cpu to a dual core version?

 

[dguy6789]

My first guess is that you have some kind of software problem.

The posters above, while well intentioned, are incorrect. The performance difference between 1T and 2T from memory is nonexistant on Athlon 64s. Also, because you are using an Athlon 64 3500+, which is probably a Venice core, it would allow the memory to remain at 400Mhz even with 4 sticks.(Even if the memory did drop to 333Mhz, it would not cause the performance drop the OP is indicating)

I suggest you do the following. Download the latest motherboard drivers and the latest graphics drivers.

Mainboard Drivers:

http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

Video Card Drivers:

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/def...deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=293

I also suggest you goto Windows Update and get all of the updates listed there. This will improve the security of your Windows installation and fix various bugs.

I also suggest investing in a good anti virus application if you do not have one already. Kaspersky Antivirus is currently the best one available.

I also have some anti spyware/malware programs that I recommend anyone with a Windows installation to be sure they have. They are as follows:

Adaware SE

http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Per...html?part=dl-ad-aware&subj=dl&tag=top5

Spybot Search and Destroy

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

Spyware Blaster

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/downloads.html

Windows Defender

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta...-4A6A-AFA4-F7F14E605A0D&displaylang=en

CCleaner

http://www.ccleaner.com/download/


If you have all of your Windows Updates, latest graphics and mainboard drivers, and have all of the afforementioned programs and update and run them regularly, your pc will be at the pinnacle of stability, security, and functionality for an unlimited period of time.

That is my solution to your problem. If it is a software problem, doing all of the above is pretty much the best you can do short of a reformat.