Okay I have another autobiography:
Masque:
I have one large connector to the motherboard, one small square connector to the mother board, one connector (the wire has two connectors on it) to the DVD drive, one connector (the wire has two connectors and one small connector) to the media card reader, one connector (the wire has two connectors on it) to the SATA hard-drive, and one square connector to the graphics card.
I have another wire similar to the one I used for the DVD drive (i.e. having two normal connectors on it) that goes no where.
In general:
I am concerned about whether or not I reconnected everything properly or not. I changed both the PSU and then the graphics card and I am experiencing some problems now.
First off the graphics card is doing its thing.
Secondly, whenever I connect headphones to the front bay audio connectors I sometimes get a weird noise (like a low-tone clicking or scraping). This usually happens (or is it my imagination) while playing 3D games. That is to say the headphones work fine for movies or music.
Finally, FEAR, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2 Lost Coast, and Oblivion all "lag" even though the reported frame rates are high (at minimum >30 for oblivion and >45 for the rest). I feel like this is due to the hard-drive hitching, so I tested it with SANDRA LITE and got it at 54mbps and 9ms seek time (SATA, 250GB). Is this hitching? Needless to say I used PerfectDisk 7.0 to defragment everything (including the page file and meta data).
I don't get this lagging problem for Half-Life 1, Blue Shift, Opposing Force, Doom 3, No One Lives Forever 2, Quake 4, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, The Chronicles of Riddick, or Counter Strike Source.
I think this may be due to the power wires coming too close to a certain wire that leads from the sound card to the front bay audio connectors. Does this sound like the problem? When I first opened my pc the SATA power wire, the wire connecting the SATA to the hard-drive, and the PCI-E power wire were all (carefully maybe?) wired on one side of the CPU heat-sink and this other wire (from the sound card to the front bay audio connectors) was on the other side of the CPU heat-sink. I forgot to re-wire it in the same way, and now I don't have a screwdriver (to remove the heat-sink) to do it on a whim. But does this sound like a problem? Are the power wires too powerful that they interfere with the sound wirte?
I am downloading 3DMark06 to test out my graphics card (to rule out the possibility that it alone is the culprit). Now I just need to find out what mark an ATI X1900XTX should get on it...
Take pity on a Newbie and help me out please (further I mean
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