BullBuchanan
Junior Member
Well I've been posting my issue at pretty much every tech forum out there but to no avail. I currently have problems in the following areas. Poor Performance issues in Gaming (Need For Speed Underground, Call of Duty, Battlefield:Vietnam etc.) Slow loadup of programs and a choppy non-fluid feel (windows XP login screen(animation is choppy), Photoshop 7 ( things load piece by piece etc), etc) What I need to know is, am I just plain expecting too much out of a pc that didnt run me 3 grand? here are my specs from cpu-z.
CPU-Z Report
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CPU-Z version 1.21.
CPU(s)
Number of CPUs 1
Code Name Northwood
Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
Family / Model / Stepping F 2 4
Extended Family / Model 0 0
Brand ID 9
Package mPGA-478
Core Stepping B0
Technology 0.13 µ
Supported Instructions Sets MMX, SSE, SSE2
CPU Clock Speed 2392.0 MHz
Clock multiplier x 18.0
Front Side Bus Frequency 132.9 MHz
Bus Speed 531.6 MHz
L1 Data Cache 8 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L1 Trace Cache 12 Kµops, 8-way set associative
L2 Cache 512 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Speed 2392.0 MHz (Full)
L2 Location On Chip
L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes
L2 Bus Width 256 bits
Mainboard and chipset
Motherboard manufacturer Dell Computer Corp.
BIOS vendor Dell Computer Corporation
BIOS revision A08
BIOS release date 09/23/2003
Chipset Intel i845G rev. A1
Southbridge Intel 82801DB (ICH4) rev. A1
Memory
DRAM Type DDR-SDRAM
DRAM Size 1024 MBytes
DRAM Frequency 166.1 MHz
FSB😀RAM 4:5
CAS# Latency 2.5 clocks
RAS# to CAS# 3 clocks
RAS# Precharge 3 clocks
Cycle Time (TRAS) 7 clocks
DRAM Idle Timer 16 clocks
# of memory modules 2
Module 0 Infineon DDR-SDRAM PC2700 - 512 MBytes
Module 1 SpecTek Incorporated DDR-SDRAM PC2700 - 512 MBytes
Software
Windows version Microsoft Windows XP Workstation Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Ive had these problems for a while now, and am not sure if they've been there since I got the machine (december 2002) but I had different issues then
Do I need a 400 dollar Video card to play the games I want to play? or two 3.6 ghz processors to run the programs I want to run without problems? Im sorry if I seem a little edgy, i've just kinda had it with this machine.
Usually a reformat of my HDD fixes some of my issue for a while, but once again it brings up other ones, and its only a temporary fix to some things.
Please keep in mind that my Hardware knowledge is very very limited. I'm a code and site design junkie. I've never edited bios or overclocked anything(dont know how) and ive never really messed with anything in the backend of it all. Any changes were made through Windows XP Home. I also dropped another 512mb RAM into this thing last week, and I notice absolutely no difference at all.
I know its a laundry list of issues, but I figure someone out ther has the answer.
Thank You in Advance
Bull Buchanan
CPU-Z Report
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CPU-Z version 1.21.
CPU(s)
Number of CPUs 1
Code Name Northwood
Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
Family / Model / Stepping F 2 4
Extended Family / Model 0 0
Brand ID 9
Package mPGA-478
Core Stepping B0
Technology 0.13 µ
Supported Instructions Sets MMX, SSE, SSE2
CPU Clock Speed 2392.0 MHz
Clock multiplier x 18.0
Front Side Bus Frequency 132.9 MHz
Bus Speed 531.6 MHz
L1 Data Cache 8 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L1 Trace Cache 12 Kµops, 8-way set associative
L2 Cache 512 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Speed 2392.0 MHz (Full)
L2 Location On Chip
L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes
L2 Bus Width 256 bits
Mainboard and chipset
Motherboard manufacturer Dell Computer Corp.
BIOS vendor Dell Computer Corporation
BIOS revision A08
BIOS release date 09/23/2003
Chipset Intel i845G rev. A1
Southbridge Intel 82801DB (ICH4) rev. A1
Memory
DRAM Type DDR-SDRAM
DRAM Size 1024 MBytes
DRAM Frequency 166.1 MHz
FSB😀RAM 4:5
CAS# Latency 2.5 clocks
RAS# to CAS# 3 clocks
RAS# Precharge 3 clocks
Cycle Time (TRAS) 7 clocks
DRAM Idle Timer 16 clocks
# of memory modules 2
Module 0 Infineon DDR-SDRAM PC2700 - 512 MBytes
Module 1 SpecTek Incorporated DDR-SDRAM PC2700 - 512 MBytes
Software
Windows version Microsoft Windows XP Workstation Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Ive had these problems for a while now, and am not sure if they've been there since I got the machine (december 2002) but I had different issues then
Do I need a 400 dollar Video card to play the games I want to play? or two 3.6 ghz processors to run the programs I want to run without problems? Im sorry if I seem a little edgy, i've just kinda had it with this machine.
Usually a reformat of my HDD fixes some of my issue for a while, but once again it brings up other ones, and its only a temporary fix to some things.
Please keep in mind that my Hardware knowledge is very very limited. I'm a code and site design junkie. I've never edited bios or overclocked anything(dont know how) and ive never really messed with anything in the backend of it all. Any changes were made through Windows XP Home. I also dropped another 512mb RAM into this thing last week, and I notice absolutely no difference at all.
I know its a laundry list of issues, but I figure someone out ther has the answer.
Thank You in Advance
Bull Buchanan
