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So I've just finished school about a month ago and had been looking forward to getting back into gaming and mixing some music on Ableton. Let me take you through my pain.
In october, my 8600gts kicked the bucket. Gave a [long short short] beep code, and that was that. Checked the output voltages of the 6-pin PCI-E power connector, which were fine. I'm in the process of claiming it on warranty.
Propping my PC up with a friend's spare GPU, I then noticed one of my samsung SATA hard drives had started clicking, and would freeze up the entire system when I tried to access some files. I salvaged my music and took the drive out.
I reinstalled vista (Spare me it, I'm waiting for the warranty claim to upgrade to win7...) once I upgraded to a GTS 250, which is installed and runs *ok*. Trouble is, the system performance is more sluggish than I ever remember it, and performs quite badly in benchmarks (scored a measly 5476 on 3D Mark vantage, compared to 8280 by http://www.tweaktown.com/print/reviews/1789/index.html).
My specs are:
- AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+
- Total Physical Memory 3.48 GB (32-bit vista, 4gb physical memory)
- Samsung HD250HJ SCSI Hard Drive (had been running an additional 500gb of the same brand)
- Gigabyte M52S-S3P motherboard
- Gigabyte 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250
- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio sound card
- GTR 450w PSU
I'm worried there's a problem somewhere that's dragging everything down. Or is it as simple as 'get a bigger psu'?
In october, my 8600gts kicked the bucket. Gave a [long short short] beep code, and that was that. Checked the output voltages of the 6-pin PCI-E power connector, which were fine. I'm in the process of claiming it on warranty.
Propping my PC up with a friend's spare GPU, I then noticed one of my samsung SATA hard drives had started clicking, and would freeze up the entire system when I tried to access some files. I salvaged my music and took the drive out.
I reinstalled vista (Spare me it, I'm waiting for the warranty claim to upgrade to win7...) once I upgraded to a GTS 250, which is installed and runs *ok*. Trouble is, the system performance is more sluggish than I ever remember it, and performs quite badly in benchmarks (scored a measly 5476 on 3D Mark vantage, compared to 8280 by http://www.tweaktown.com/print/reviews/1789/index.html).
My specs are:
- AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+
- Total Physical Memory 3.48 GB (32-bit vista, 4gb physical memory)
- Samsung HD250HJ SCSI Hard Drive (had been running an additional 500gb of the same brand)
- Gigabyte M52S-S3P motherboard
- Gigabyte 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250
- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio sound card
- GTR 450w PSU
I'm worried there's a problem somewhere that's dragging everything down. Or is it as simple as 'get a bigger psu'?