These are my specs at the moment:
Motherboard: Asus Rampage Extreme
Processor: Intel Core2 Quad Q6600
Memory: 4x 1GB DDR3 Corsair XMS3 1066MHz
Graphics: XFX GeForce 9800GX2
Sound Card: Creative SB X-Fi XtremeMusic
PSU: Thermaltake Though Power 750W
HDD: WesternDigital 250GB SATA 16mb buffer
Actual OS: Windows Vista Ultimate x86 (SP1)
Nothing is over or down clocked.
Since some months ago I've been experiencing low performance in this machine in some games I play, specially Call of Duty 2. How do I notice this? Where I used to have 600-800 frames per second before, I now have below 300 or 200 fps and in a competition match, for example, 5 versus 5, one team starts at one side of the map, at spawn and before starting the match we are team killing, just for a warm up, my fps decrease to below 200, some times below 100. Well, in this game 125 locked is enough and 250 locked is the ideal for me but a hard fps drop causes mouse lag and becomes very difficult to me to aim correctly.
This is just an example. Now in Call of Duty World at War, a new game, I used to have more than 200 fps. I used to lock my FPS to 125 and they didn't move! Now it drops to 50 some times which is really annoying, it is impossible to aim like this...
I have ran 3dMark06 with the system listed above and got below 13000 marks. Is this normal? I think not... I've seen HD4850 do 14000! I have a 9800GX2 ffs! (I can be wrong...)
What have I done to try to solve this problem:
I know a pc store close to my home which lent me some hardware to test.
>> First they lent me a graphics card, an AMD Powercolor HD4890. I removed nVidia drivers, installed ATi latest drivers (9.5 or something like that) and tested the game. Same thing, low fps... So it's not the graphics card problem and I'm glad it isn't, the GX2 cost me 450€
>> I took my computer to the store and they mounted a Corsair TX-650W to test. Nothing's changed, same performance... I was kinda sad at this time, I wanted it to be the PSU problem and it wasn't.
>> It could only be a Motherboard or RAM problem. So I bought the Asus Rampage Extreme + 4GB DDR3... I had an Asus P5Q + 4GB DDR2 667MHz Kingston before. I installed it and the performance was the same!
>> Took a Core 2 Duo E6550 from my dad's computer and tried it on mine. (This was my old processor, I've already had good performance with it but then I bought a Q9450 which I sent back because it wont let me boot the computer). With the E6550 the performance was even a bit worse. I had the Q9450 working before, I've already had 1000 fps with this processor in Call of Duty 2 in DX9 (instead of default DX7, it's a game option). But then, for some reason after a Lanparty it wasn't the same but the problem isn't the processor as you can see. I've tested three other processors, the E6550, the Q6600 and a weak Pentium E5200.
>> I have also tested these motherboards: Asus Rampage Extreme, Asus P5Q, Asus P5QL Pro, Asus P5K.
And this RAMs: 2x (4GB DDR2 667MHz Kingston), 4GB DDR3 1066MHz Corsair (with Rampage motherboard)
>> I have also removed the sound card and used the one which came with the motherboard (Supreme X-Fi). Same thing.
>> I had tried Windows XP SP2/SP3, Windows XP x64, Windows Vista Ultimate SP1, Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 x64, Windows 7 x64. After installing windows, just installed nVidia drivers (tried 185.85, 182.50, 182.22, 178.24) and the game so I could check if it was a software problem, but it isn't.
The only thing left to test is the Hard Drive but I don't have any hard drive to test and I don't think a hard drive can affect the FPS in any game as the game data goes into memory, right?
What can I do?
Motherboard: Asus Rampage Extreme
Processor: Intel Core2 Quad Q6600
Memory: 4x 1GB DDR3 Corsair XMS3 1066MHz
Graphics: XFX GeForce 9800GX2
Sound Card: Creative SB X-Fi XtremeMusic
PSU: Thermaltake Though Power 750W
HDD: WesternDigital 250GB SATA 16mb buffer
Actual OS: Windows Vista Ultimate x86 (SP1)
Nothing is over or down clocked.
Since some months ago I've been experiencing low performance in this machine in some games I play, specially Call of Duty 2. How do I notice this? Where I used to have 600-800 frames per second before, I now have below 300 or 200 fps and in a competition match, for example, 5 versus 5, one team starts at one side of the map, at spawn and before starting the match we are team killing, just for a warm up, my fps decrease to below 200, some times below 100. Well, in this game 125 locked is enough and 250 locked is the ideal for me but a hard fps drop causes mouse lag and becomes very difficult to me to aim correctly.
This is just an example. Now in Call of Duty World at War, a new game, I used to have more than 200 fps. I used to lock my FPS to 125 and they didn't move! Now it drops to 50 some times which is really annoying, it is impossible to aim like this...
I have ran 3dMark06 with the system listed above and got below 13000 marks. Is this normal? I think not... I've seen HD4850 do 14000! I have a 9800GX2 ffs! (I can be wrong...)
What have I done to try to solve this problem:
I know a pc store close to my home which lent me some hardware to test.
>> First they lent me a graphics card, an AMD Powercolor HD4890. I removed nVidia drivers, installed ATi latest drivers (9.5 or something like that) and tested the game. Same thing, low fps... So it's not the graphics card problem and I'm glad it isn't, the GX2 cost me 450€
>> I took my computer to the store and they mounted a Corsair TX-650W to test. Nothing's changed, same performance... I was kinda sad at this time, I wanted it to be the PSU problem and it wasn't.
>> It could only be a Motherboard or RAM problem. So I bought the Asus Rampage Extreme + 4GB DDR3... I had an Asus P5Q + 4GB DDR2 667MHz Kingston before. I installed it and the performance was the same!
>> Took a Core 2 Duo E6550 from my dad's computer and tried it on mine. (This was my old processor, I've already had good performance with it but then I bought a Q9450 which I sent back because it wont let me boot the computer). With the E6550 the performance was even a bit worse. I had the Q9450 working before, I've already had 1000 fps with this processor in Call of Duty 2 in DX9 (instead of default DX7, it's a game option). But then, for some reason after a Lanparty it wasn't the same but the problem isn't the processor as you can see. I've tested three other processors, the E6550, the Q6600 and a weak Pentium E5200.
>> I have also tested these motherboards: Asus Rampage Extreme, Asus P5Q, Asus P5QL Pro, Asus P5K.
And this RAMs: 2x (4GB DDR2 667MHz Kingston), 4GB DDR3 1066MHz Corsair (with Rampage motherboard)
>> I have also removed the sound card and used the one which came with the motherboard (Supreme X-Fi). Same thing.
>> I had tried Windows XP SP2/SP3, Windows XP x64, Windows Vista Ultimate SP1, Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 x64, Windows 7 x64. After installing windows, just installed nVidia drivers (tried 185.85, 182.50, 182.22, 178.24) and the game so I could check if it was a software problem, but it isn't.
The only thing left to test is the Hard Drive but I don't have any hard drive to test and I don't think a hard drive can affect the FPS in any game as the game data goes into memory, right?
What can I do?
100% sounds like PB problem to me. Perhaps try checking drivers?
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