I recently upgraded my Dell XPS 410.. Yes, I know.. These systems are the least capable for being upgraded.. But anyways, I went from having:
3.5GB Ram to 8GB all 800mhz DDR2 for ram
E6300 Core 2 Duo to a Q6600 Quad Core
and
7900GTX to a 460GTX 768MB graphics card..
When I installed the graphics card alone I noticed a decent improvement in gaming..
BUT
After the new processor and new ram Im not really seeing any improvements.. Still seeing some of the same lag in games when in high resolutions.. and just overall performance is practically the same as it was before.. In fact, I noticed it took a little longer to load one of my games than it did prior to the RAM and CPU upgrade..
When I pull up CPU-Z it shows my processor core speed at 1594Mhz and the rated FSB at just under 1100Mhz... once in a while the core speed will jump up to about 2400 (which is what the processor should be at 2.4ghz) but then it jumps right back down to 1594 again...
Im not really sure how to read the ram figures but this is what it shows:
JEDEC#1:200Mhz
JEDEC#2:266Mhz
JEDEC#3:400Mhz
EPP#1:400Mhz
the ram speed I thought would show at 800Mhz...
Is there something Im missing? Just doesnt seem like everything is reading at the speeds that it should.. All the ratings went up in the windows experience index except for Disk data transfer rate.. what exactly does this affect ? If I get a faster hard drive would this help out any??
Any help would be appreciated.. thanks
3.5GB Ram to 8GB all 800mhz DDR2 for ram
E6300 Core 2 Duo to a Q6600 Quad Core
and
7900GTX to a 460GTX 768MB graphics card..
When I installed the graphics card alone I noticed a decent improvement in gaming..
BUT
After the new processor and new ram Im not really seeing any improvements.. Still seeing some of the same lag in games when in high resolutions.. and just overall performance is practically the same as it was before.. In fact, I noticed it took a little longer to load one of my games than it did prior to the RAM and CPU upgrade..
When I pull up CPU-Z it shows my processor core speed at 1594Mhz and the rated FSB at just under 1100Mhz... once in a while the core speed will jump up to about 2400 (which is what the processor should be at 2.4ghz) but then it jumps right back down to 1594 again...
Im not really sure how to read the ram figures but this is what it shows:
JEDEC#1:200Mhz
JEDEC#2:266Mhz
JEDEC#3:400Mhz
EPP#1:400Mhz
the ram speed I thought would show at 800Mhz...
Is there something Im missing? Just doesnt seem like everything is reading at the speeds that it should.. All the ratings went up in the windows experience index except for Disk data transfer rate.. what exactly does this affect ? If I get a faster hard drive would this help out any??
Any help would be appreciated.. thanks