Hi,
With money being rather tight these days I have been unable to fix my bust intel box so I have gone back to my AMD rig (see sig for specs). I have updated the graphics card to the 4670, which I have to say is a great budget card. While this is not the worlds best box it still has some life left in it. However I am having FPS issues in games. Mainly UT3.
I have removed the HSF, cleaned and re-greased the CPU & HSF. I have also cleaned/re-greased the cooler on the 4670. The problem is when I am in game after about 5-10 minutes the FPS drop from 60 to around 5-10 for a good few minutes and then back up again, and this happens quite often. So as you can imagine this has an impact on my fragging.
My first port of call was to check the temps on CPU & GPU. My CPU's loads is never more than 55C and my GPU has peaked at 60C but 9 times out of 10 is in the low 50's. So this is not the issue.
I am powering the box with a noname 460w PSU, which should be more than adequate as the GPU doesn't require a PCI-E power connector.
My motherboard is only PCI-E 1.0 and the card is 2.0 but again this shouldnt be the problem as the card is backwards compatible with earlier standards.
I really am at a loss, I have defragged the drive, even a fresh install of XP but I am still having the same issues. I am also noticing this drop in other games like The Witcher & Left 4 Dead.
Any ideas?
With money being rather tight these days I have been unable to fix my bust intel box so I have gone back to my AMD rig (see sig for specs). I have updated the graphics card to the 4670, which I have to say is a great budget card. While this is not the worlds best box it still has some life left in it. However I am having FPS issues in games. Mainly UT3.
I have removed the HSF, cleaned and re-greased the CPU & HSF. I have also cleaned/re-greased the cooler on the 4670. The problem is when I am in game after about 5-10 minutes the FPS drop from 60 to around 5-10 for a good few minutes and then back up again, and this happens quite often. So as you can imagine this has an impact on my fragging.
My first port of call was to check the temps on CPU & GPU. My CPU's loads is never more than 55C and my GPU has peaked at 60C but 9 times out of 10 is in the low 50's. So this is not the issue.
I am powering the box with a noname 460w PSU, which should be more than adequate as the GPU doesn't require a PCI-E power connector.
My motherboard is only PCI-E 1.0 and the card is 2.0 but again this shouldnt be the problem as the card is backwards compatible with earlier standards.
I really am at a loss, I have defragged the drive, even a fresh install of XP but I am still having the same issues. I am also noticing this drop in other games like The Witcher & Left 4 Dead.
Any ideas?