Something Is Making My Pc Extremely Slow (Help)

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Ever since it was made my pc has had unexpected lag spikes. I have had my system for a while and have been swapping out parts but nothing seems to do. I changed the video card but that didnt help and went back to xp and that didnt help and I tested my memory and no errors were found. My system is the following:
e6600 w/ coolermaster heatsink
msi p6n plat mobo
4x1gb
8800gts 512mb
Vista 64bit
enermax 535w psu

To give you an example of how my pc goes slow, I run crysis at 16x10 res and it is a clipshow at all medium settings, I had to play all low in order to finish the game and even that was only about 25-40fps (No AA or AF) and it is especially slow in areas with snow and smoke. Oblivion runs noticeably slow especially outdoors and tf2 and css dip into low fps every now and then. The witcher lags too especially in areas with many people like towns.
3DMark Score 10102 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score 4718 Marks
SM 3.0 Score 5204 Marks
CPU Score 1970 Marks
in superpi 1mil 21s 4mil 119s

I had a similar problem back when I had a 7950gt but simply blamed it on the video card. I believe it is either the psu, mobo, or cpu but dont know how to test. Any help would be much appreciated.
As stated I have tried xp and a different video card

This may help (idle of course and before you post I now run the voltage at 1.3v and it did nothing to the performance pro or con)
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Seems about right to me for dual core 2.4 ghz processor, my old system with Opteron @ 2.6ghz did 9500 something 3dmark 06 with 8800GT and only 10000 3dmark06 with SLi GT's. I think if you want better performance you will have to overclock that cpu because I think in the 2.4ghz range you are cpu bottlenecked to a max of 10,000 3dmarks as I was with my Opteron@ 2.6ghz.

My current Quad@3.6ghz jumped my scores up to 14,200 with a single 8800GT.
 
its less benchmarks as it is in game, i just gave those as a reference. Check what I posted about game speeds. I tested with a different hd and windows xp, same speed. It could be a problem with crysis as the speed drop is SIGNIFICANTLY more noticeable in that but I sense some slowdown in oblivion and the other games

Well I threw in a new psu and that seems to have fixed it (fingers crossed) I'll let you know if something new comes up.
 
bluehaze013 said:
Seems about right to me for dual core 2.4 ghz processor, my old system with Opteron @ 2.6ghz did 9500 something 3dmark 06 with 8800GT and only 10000 3dmark06 with SLi GT's. I think if you want better performance you will have to overclock that cpu because I think in the 2.4ghz range you are cpu bottlenecked to a max of 10,000 3dmarks as I was with my Opteron@ 2.6ghz.

My current Quad@3.6ghz jumped my scores up to 14,200 with a single 8800GT.
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I agree with bluehaze013, your benchmarks seem right on target with your rig.

Also, can you post your temps? Heat would be the only other suspect. You may have to re-seat your heat sinks.

But other than that, your benchmarks look fine.

If you are indeed experiencing in-game choppiness, then post FEAR and Crysis benchmarks. They have their own benchmark executables.
 
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