Poor Performance Issues

[RacerChuck]

I always thought I could solve my own problems, but this one has me stumped. I have a 2.4 Ghz P4 Socket 478 Running 533 FSB Architecture and a GeForce3 64 MB Video Card. this machine has given me over a year of trouble free performance. Lately, games started to stutter and freeze and I have had alot of problems with applications freezing and not responding, so I thought it was time for a re-format.

After I reformatted the drive (IBM 40GB 7200 RPM), the problem still persists.

So I went out and bought a faster video card (128MB GeForceFX), yet the problem still exists

Then I thought, maybe the hard drive is trash, so I went out and bought another hard drive (WD 80GB 7200 RPM), and yet the problem still exists.

I even went out and got another 512MB of PC2100 Ram giving my system a total of 1GB of RAM with no results toward solving the problem.

Could it be that the Motherboard and/or processor is toast?

Those are the only two parts that I haven't been changed.

Frustrated

 

[johnjkr1]

Welcome to the forum! It is quite unlikely that your motherboard or processor would cause slow performance like you describe. When they break, they break. First, what OS are you running? What drivers did you install after formatting. And more importantly, what applications are you running that you notice slowing down? As for the video card, the 5200 is not much of an upgrade from a geforce3, it is not a very good gaming card overall.

 

[CdnAtWork]

Try running it with just the NEW stick of ram in there.

 

[MichaelZ]

yeh try only the new stick of ram.

if that doesn't work, hell just go get a new MB. you've pretty much got a new comp now anyway...

 

[RacerChuck]

Got it fixed!! It appears that the sum of your advice was correct. I put the New RAM Stick in slot 0 and went back to the GeForce3, and the machine is like new. Apparently the 5200 card is barely half the GF3, based on measured performance, even though it's got twice the RAM.

Man can not live by video RAM alone.


You guys rock!!!!:beer: