Hey guys. I'm not sure completely sure if this is a hardware issue, but I figure I'll post up here anyway and get your ideas.
System is:
Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 mobo,
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 CPU (@ 2.45GHz),
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB S-ATAII HDD,
ATI Radeon x850XT 256MB PCI-E,
Asus DVD/RW RAM drive,
2 x 1024MB DDR2 800Mhz PC2 6400 Transcend Jetram Memory,
550W Task PSU.
I've having problems with this current system. After a while with any OS the system becomes sluggish and slows down. Recently I've been playing a lot of WoW on it. I have verticle sync on so my frames per second shouldn't really ever drop below 60 by much. And usually this is the case, but recently after a few days the system starts to lag a bit... and the frames jump around a bit. Upon first boot they'll just at about 60 for a few seconds then dip to about 30, and from there over a few minutes it just slows up a lot and then my frames never really get over 10 if i leave it long enough.
After each time I format the computer seems to go back to full speed again and everything is fine, I can play with my frames staying at about 60 and then thats all good, but the next day I might fire it up and Its running very poorly again. Also after leaving the game the system is slow to respond and a shadow of its former self.
I really don't understand why it would do this. In as much as straight after a format the computer runs perfectly it doesn't seem like a hadware issue and more of a software issue, but if it does the exact same thing after every fresh OS I install surely something must not be right?
I've tried setting all BIOS settings back to failsafe settings and I've checked all voltages etc and it is all fine.
Any ideas?
System is:
Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 mobo,
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 CPU (@ 2.45GHz),
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB S-ATAII HDD,
ATI Radeon x850XT 256MB PCI-E,
Asus DVD/RW RAM drive,
2 x 1024MB DDR2 800Mhz PC2 6400 Transcend Jetram Memory,
550W Task PSU.
I've having problems with this current system. After a while with any OS the system becomes sluggish and slows down. Recently I've been playing a lot of WoW on it. I have verticle sync on so my frames per second shouldn't really ever drop below 60 by much. And usually this is the case, but recently after a few days the system starts to lag a bit... and the frames jump around a bit. Upon first boot they'll just at about 60 for a few seconds then dip to about 30, and from there over a few minutes it just slows up a lot and then my frames never really get over 10 if i leave it long enough.
After each time I format the computer seems to go back to full speed again and everything is fine, I can play with my frames staying at about 60 and then thats all good, but the next day I might fire it up and Its running very poorly again. Also after leaving the game the system is slow to respond and a shadow of its former self.
I really don't understand why it would do this. In as much as straight after a format the computer runs perfectly it doesn't seem like a hadware issue and more of a software issue, but if it does the exact same thing after every fresh OS I install surely something must not be right?
I've tried setting all BIOS settings back to failsafe settings and I've checked all voltages etc and it is all fine.
Any ideas?