Hello There... My system is about 3 years old and recently I thought I can give it a new life by doing some upgrades... However after adding the new hardware my comp's performance has become extremely choppy. Even watching divx movies has slowed down a lot... So gurus please help!!! More information on the old system and upgrades below... Old System: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 Conroe 1.86GHz ASUS P5N32-SLI Premium/WiFi-AP Socket T (LGA 775) NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI Patriot DDR2 800 2GB KIT (1GB X 2) Windows XP 2 x EVGA 7950GT KO in SLI mode Upgraded OCZ DDR2 800 4GB Kit (2GB X 2) Old ram was taken out EVGA GTX 260 SSC Edition (55NM) 896 MB Windows XP (Waiting on Vista Ultimate to come in) I havent changed much but upgraded more ram and new video card... The games that I play are no where hardware intensive (world of warcraft) But I was getting 5FPS to 30FPS which is horrible cuz my SLI 7950 did better than that... Now I understand that my MOBO Can only support PCI E x 16 1.0 and the card is 2.0... But im not too familiar with that if that is the culprit to the problem... I was thinking a vid card thats 3 gen's ahead of my old ones would be a huge step up however I just cant see it right now... Also, I am waiting for windows vista ultimate to come in to upgrade to DX10 so I am not sure if that will help... Any help would be appreciated Thanks in advanced... Jeff
I think the problem comes by the PSU, but watching films the VGA doesn't get forced to do too much job. In games if PSU is not of good quality maybe is that the reason you have bad performance. Can you try a newer PSU? (things changed a lo from 3 yeard to now).
Ill try to check that out... I understand the 260 is a monster but I havnet had any voltage problems even when I ran with SLI than again power consumption on those may be totally diff from the 260 Thanks for the advice though... Keep it coming please...
I do think its this one but... I know the brand and wattage is correct... And my current units is SLI ready... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817104122 But not sure if its this exact one...
