hi – I have a PC that I put together a couple of years ago that I use mostly for gaming and multimedia (I’m a graphic designer/photographer) and it’s always been a great PC up until recently, when things have started to run really slow – not at an OS level, that’s all still nice and speedy, but it’s when I’m playing games or trying to manipulate large photos and videos.
I assumed that the video card – an Nvidia 8800 GTS (640mb RAM) was going bad so I switched that out and saw the same performance. I then started looking for a suite of diagnostics that might actually identify what was wrong and along the way I found PCWizard 2009. This runs a benchmark and during the tests it reported my 2gb of RAM as having a score of 0, so I got another 2gb of RAM (either as a replacement or upgrade) but after replacing that, I’m still seeing 0 for RAM in the benchmarks.
So, right now I’m left thinking that it can really only be the CPU or (more likely) the motherboard but I’m unable to figure out which it is, and I don’t have a “known good” to swap out and test. Does anyone know of a good, hardware diagnostic suite that might tell me exactly what component on my machine is humped?
thanks in advance!
Machine specs:
Motherboard:
ASUS P5N32-E SLI Plus LGA 775 C55+MCP55P
CPU:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor
RAM:
CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Video Card:
Leadtek WinFast PX8800 GTS TDH GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16