Performance?

by **(>Tool<)** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 11:37 am

I'm just wondering if I've overlooked anything obvious or if there is something easy I can do for my PC. But I'm not really pleased with the performance. I have a Pentium 4 2.4 ghz with 1gig pc2100 DDR ram. I've tried overclocking, but my motherboard only supports pc2100 and lower, so I set the ratio to 1.5 and overclocked it back up to 266mhz, making the host clock 177, but then my computer just sits there and finally reloads at 2.4 ghz and I have to go in and enable host clock settings again. The system runs great overall, I just think I should be seeing better results in my gaming for what I have here. o also I'm running a Geforce 4 Ti4800SE graphics card on a 90mhz agp slot. Any suggestions would be great, I'm up for just chit chat about it if you don't know what exactly to tell me. Thanks in advance to anyone who replies.

by **Agent-Commando** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 11:41 am

Is that P4 a 400mhz FSB or 533?

And what's exactly wrong with it? Not fast enough? Sometimes a software tune-up or format is all you need.

by **(>Tool<)** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 11:43 am

Its a 533, and it has a very clean 7200RPM harddrive thats defragmented regularly. Yeah a P4, and I'm pretty studied on my computer stuff too thats why I'm kinda messed up about it, I think I should see a bit better then I do. I think my framerates should be a bit better, and I've even messed with the settings on the video card, overclocking it doesn't do too much for me at all. maybe 200-300 points on the benchmark.

by **DocTrebor** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 7:36 pm

Is it the overall system that is giving you issues or does it also have to do with internet connections?

My one peice of advice would be to check any firewalls you have in place, I've seen instances where they slow the computer down drastically for what seems to be no reason at all.

by **(>Tool<)** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 7:59 pm

I have a firewall on, but I ping in the 50's usually. Still, I'll see what that does, cause I don't really want to leave my firewall off.

by **shockwave203** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 8:35 pm

Have you made sure that there are no old drivers still on your system? those can mess up performance if they're not removed sometimes....

I have a very similiar system to you, except I have a Radeon 9700. All games run very very smooth.

IF, and only IF you can't sort it out, I suggest a reformat. I know I know, it sucks to do that, but back everything up and start fresh. PC's and, atleast in my experience, games, always run much faster on a new disk. I usually reformat about twice a year to keep things running well.

oh, and are you using a soundcard or onboard? I know that I had some issues with my onboard sound that made my games kind of jittery

by **(>Tool<)** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 2:34 am

I use a sound card, and I will download as many drivers as I've replaced and delete the one there and replace them. Thanks for the idea.

by **Xenius** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 9:37 am

Just check your email, I get at least 10 spams about boosting performance a day.

by **DocTrebor** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 3:30 pm

GoOd LuCk ToOl!

by **SilverSurfer** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 6:10 pm

Originally posted by =DocTrebor=
GoOd LuCk ToOl!

lol dude tool is not gonna die you know
but anyway i wanna help ya out but i don't know **** about computers

by **(>Tool<)** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 6:45 pm

yeah, I dunno, games just seem a little more sluggish then I think they should, its not major or anything. Thanks guys for the posts but I think its just about hopeless. I even cleaned my registry with a special tool and all that, I did everything you can do to gain bits of performance.

by **Edogg** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 8:39 pm

well your ram is bottlenecking the rest of the system. I would say you really need pc 2700 at least. Also if you want better performance just turn down all of your graphics settings.

I have a p4 2.4b and 5900 fx, but I run Et in 800x600 with all the low graphics settings. I prefer the higher framerate over the pretty graphics and high resolutions. Thats just for multiplayer games though. Single player games i crank everything up.

edit: you also might want to try upgrading your motherboard's bios, and your ti4800's bios. Jut go to their respective manufacturers and see if they have any flash updates.

by **Rule of Wrist** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 9:06 pm

There was a few threads about this sort of thing a while back... it mentioned this one guy's site who specialized in tweaking the OS to turn off all of the extraneous services that are default turned on in the OS that aren't really necessary and hog resources... can't remember the name of the site... "Black" something or other was the guy's name, I think...

Agent-commando, you remember what I'm talking about? You were ivolved with the thread with some very helpful stuff...

But, figure out what processes are running in the background, and turn off the ones that you don't need... just be careful, as turning some off can make your system unstable...

by **Edogg** » Sat Aug 23, 2003 6:50 pm

Originally posted by Rule of Wrist
There was a few threads about this sort of thing a while back... it mentioned this one guy's site who specialized in tweaking the OS to turn off all of the extraneous services that are default turned on in the OS that aren't really necessary and hog resources... can't remember the name of the site... "Black" something or other was the guy's name, I think...

Agent-commando, you remember what I'm talking about? You were ivolved with the thread with some very helpful stuff...

But, figure out what processes are running in the background, and turn off the ones that you don't need... just be careful, as turning some off can make your system unstable...

here it is. http://blackviper.com/WinXP/supertweaks.htm

Itsl tweaks for Xp. i did most of them but I really havent noticed too much of a difference.

by **Rule of Wrist** » Sat Aug 23, 2003 6:55 pm

That's the one... thanks Edogg...

See? I'm not that crazy...

:beer:

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