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New AMD 64 is slooooow...looking for advice.
I have built my first complete system...
MSI K8N Neo Platinum 754 AMD 64 2800 2x512 MB Micron pc-3200 DDR 400 MSI GeForce FX 5200 128MB 1 WD 120GB SATA Liteon CD/DVD ROM Mad Dog 8x dual layer DVDCDRW Planar PL190M 19" LCD Windows XP Pro, Current except for SP2 Coolermaster Centurion Case/350watt PS Now, after a couple of bad WD HDD'S no other problems, except for the fact that this system is slow. I did a 3Dmark benchmark2001 and got a score of 5415. What i notice is that applications are slow to load, I.E I double click on Firefox or IE and it takes up to several seconds to load. I honestly think these apps loaded on my 800 Celeron system The only piece that came out of my old system is the Graphics card, which I THOUGHT was decent, but I am finding out different. Could my current card be that detrimental the overall performance of this system? Some additional information. The system boots very quickly. All drivers have been updated, bios is current. I have run memtest86 to 2900% (+/-) with NO errors. Prime95 ran for 18 hours at priority 10 with no errors. I guess I really am looking for direction as to what I may look for. Any suggestions on where to start? Thanks Brandon |
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the 5200 is a slow card but should prove sufficient for 2d and some 3d
games. it should not slow the system down that much. If I were running an amd 64 I would have at least a geforce 5900 or ati 9800. just my opinion I run a P4 2.6 with a ati 9600xt. "Brandon" wrote in message news:1IALd.11$Yu.2@fed1read01... I have built my first complete system... MSI K8N Neo Platinum 754 AMD 64 2800 2x512 MB Micron pc-3200 DDR 400 MSI GeForce FX 5200 128MB 1 WD 120GB SATA Liteon CD/DVD ROM Mad Dog 8x dual layer DVDCDRW Planar PL190M 19" LCD Windows XP Pro, Current except for SP2 Coolermaster Centurion Case/350watt PS Now, after a couple of bad WD HDD'S no other problems, except for the fact that this system is slow. I did a 3Dmark benchmark2001 and got a score of 5415. What i notice is that applications are slow to load, I.E I double click on Firefox or IE and it takes up to several seconds to load. I honestly think these apps loaded on my 800 Celeron system The only piece that came out of my old system is the Graphics card, which I THOUGHT was decent, but I am finding out different. Could my current card be that detrimental the overall performance of this system? Some additional information. The system boots very quickly. All drivers have been updated, bios is current. I have run memtest86 to 2900% (+/-) with NO errors. Prime95 ran for 18 hours at priority 10 with no errors. I guess I really am looking for direction as to what I may look for. Any suggestions on where to start? Thanks Brandon |
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Yeah the comptuer only goes as fast as the slowest component. I upgraded
from a 5600 ultra to a 6600 GT and DAMN everything is so much faster "BigJIm" wrote in message ... the 5200 is a slow card but should prove sufficient for 2d and some 3d games. it should not slow the system down that much. If I were running an amd 64 I would have at least a geforce 5900 or ati 9800. just my opinion I run a P4 2.6 with a ati 9600xt. "Brandon" wrote in message news:1IALd.11$Yu.2@fed1read01... I have built my first complete system... MSI K8N Neo Platinum 754 AMD 64 2800 2x512 MB Micron pc-3200 DDR 400 MSI GeForce FX 5200 128MB 1 WD 120GB SATA Liteon CD/DVD ROM Mad Dog 8x dual layer DVDCDRW Planar PL190M 19" LCD Windows XP Pro, Current except for SP2 Coolermaster Centurion Case/350watt PS Now, after a couple of bad WD HDD'S no other problems, except for the fact that this system is slow. I did a 3Dmark benchmark2001 and got a score of 5415. What i notice is that applications are slow to load, I.E I double click on Firefox or IE and it takes up to several seconds to load. I honestly think these apps loaded on my 800 Celeron system The only piece that came out of my old system is the Graphics card, which I THOUGHT was decent, but I am finding out different. Could my current card be that detrimental the overall performance of this system? Some additional information. The system boots very quickly. All drivers have been updated, bios is current. I have run memtest86 to 2900% (+/-) with NO errors. Prime95 ran for 18 hours at priority 10 with no errors. I guess I really am looking for direction as to what I may look for. Any suggestions on where to start? Thanks Brandon |
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Hers the thing, I don't play games.
Will this card slow down just loading apps? FrontPage 2003 Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc Thanks for the replies. BTW what IS good benchmarking(overall system performance) program? "Anthony" wrote in message news:h2GLd.14960$PB.6644@okepread01... Yeah the comptuer only goes as fast as the slowest component. I upgraded from a 5600 ultra to a 6600 GT and DAMN everything is so much faster "BigJIm" wrote in message ... the 5200 is a slow card but should prove sufficient for 2d and some 3d games. it should not slow the system down that much. If I were running an amd 64 I would have at least a geforce 5900 or ati 9800. just my opinion I run a P4 2.6 with a ati 9600xt. "Brandon" wrote in message news:1IALd.11$Yu.2@fed1read01... I have built my first complete system... MSI K8N Neo Platinum 754 AMD 64 2800 2x512 MB Micron pc-3200 DDR 400 MSI GeForce FX 5200 128MB 1 WD 120GB SATA Liteon CD/DVD ROM Mad Dog 8x dual layer DVDCDRW Planar PL190M 19" LCD Windows XP Pro, Current except for SP2 Coolermaster Centurion Case/350watt PS Now, after a couple of bad WD HDD'S no other problems, except for the fact that this system is slow. I did a 3Dmark benchmark2001 and got a score of 5415. What i notice is that applications are slow to load, I.E I double click on Firefox or IE and it takes up to several seconds to load. I honestly think these apps loaded on my 800 Celeron system The only piece that came out of my old system is the Graphics card, which I THOUGHT was decent, but I am finding out different. Could my current card be that detrimental the overall performance of this system? Some additional information. The system boots very quickly. All drivers have been updated, bios is current. I have run memtest86 to 2900% (+/-) with NO errors. Prime95 ran for 18 hours at priority 10 with no errors. I guess I really am looking for direction as to what I may look for. Any suggestions on where to start? Thanks Brandon |
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its not your card itself...maybe the drivers for it could slow things,
if they fail to load properly. "Brandon" wrote in message news:GaGLd.32181$EG1.20180@lakeread04... Hers the thing, I don't play games. Will this card slow down just loading apps? FrontPage 2003 Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc Thanks for the replies. BTW what IS good benchmarking(overall system performance) program? "Anthony" wrote in message news:h2GLd.14960$PB.6644@okepread01... Yeah the comptuer only goes as fast as the slowest component. I upgraded from a 5600 ultra to a 6600 GT and DAMN everything is so much faster "BigJIm" wrote in message ... the 5200 is a slow card but should prove sufficient for 2d and some 3d games. it should not slow the system down that much. If I were running an amd 64 I would have at least a geforce 5900 or ati 9800. just my opinion I run a P4 2.6 with a ati 9600xt. "Brandon" wrote in message news:1IALd.11$Yu.2@fed1read01... I have built my first complete system... MSI K8N Neo Platinum 754 AMD 64 2800 2x512 MB Micron pc-3200 DDR 400 MSI GeForce FX 5200 128MB 1 WD 120GB SATA Liteon CD/DVD ROM Mad Dog 8x dual layer DVDCDRW Planar PL190M 19" LCD Windows XP Pro, Current except for SP2 Coolermaster Centurion Case/350watt PS Now, after a couple of bad WD HDD'S no other problems, except for the fact that this system is slow. I did a 3Dmark benchmark2001 and got a score of 5415. What i notice is that applications are slow to load, I.E I double click on Firefox or IE and it takes up to several seconds to load. I honestly think these apps loaded on my 800 Celeron system The only piece that came out of my old system is the Graphics card, which I THOUGHT was decent, but I am finding out different. Could my current card be that detrimental the overall performance of this system? Some additional information. The system boots very quickly. All drivers have been updated, bios is current. I have run memtest86 to 2900% (+/-) with NO errors. Prime95 ran for 18 hours at priority 10 with no errors. I guess I really am looking for direction as to what I may look for. Any suggestions on where to start? Thanks Brandon |
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