Hello!
I'm turning to you guys to plead for help
My rig is
Motherboard: Abit NV8 (soc. 754 with PCI-E support)
CPU: Athlon64 3000 (oc-d to 2.2GHz)
RAM: 1.5 GB
Video: ATI X800
As you can see that was a quite ok midrange gaming rig some time ago... but I don't play all that much recently. Actually, I only play Warcraft 3 in b-net... And one would think, that a game that I played on P3 667 would fly on such a system... wrong Once I start using Skype (or Windows Live Messenger) - it takes up to 30-40% of CPU once the voice goes in or out and the game slows to a crawl...
My audio card is onboard - would it be responsible for all the problems? Would the problem be solved if I buy the cheapest dedicated sound card for 10$? Or could it be related to the fact, that during OC I had to bring my HT bus speed down to 600? Or could it be just something else?
And if you think that the sound card is the problem - could someone direct me to some site with sound cards reviews - AT seems a bit lacking in this department
Thanks in advance!
I'm turning to you guys to plead for help
My rig isMotherboard: Abit NV8 (soc. 754 with PCI-E support)
CPU: Athlon64 3000 (oc-d to 2.2GHz)
RAM: 1.5 GB
Video: ATI X800
As you can see that was a quite ok midrange gaming rig some time ago... but I don't play all that much recently. Actually, I only play Warcraft 3 in b-net... And one would think, that a game that I played on P3 667 would fly on such a system... wrong
Once I start using Skype (or Windows Live Messenger) - it takes up to 30-40% of CPU once the voice goes in or out and the game slows to a crawl...My audio card is onboard - would it be responsible for all the problems? Would the problem be solved if I buy the cheapest dedicated sound card for 10$? Or could it be related to the fact, that during OC I had to bring my HT bus speed down to 600? Or could it be just something else?
And if you think that the sound card is the problem - could someone direct me to some site with sound cards reviews - AT seems a bit lacking in this department
Thanks in advance!
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