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try to update drivers! if not, just clean all unnecesary files from youre hdd, or reinstall (reinstall is the last option) ofcours you may need to buy a new hdd, cause these kinfs of slowdowns are happening cause of HDD or drivers, sometimes it maybe something like a soundcard, or overheating!
change the thermo paste on youre CPU, cause it might be overheating! its called autothrottling, you can disable that, just google it, but it maybe risky!

I would go for the 460/560/560Ti, depending on how much u are willing to spend

Your GFX is very bad for videogaming. Consider getting a new one. Also, 3 Gb RAM is a little low. Also, Win7 is much more ressource efficient than Vista. Switching to 7 would probably help too!

it could be really likely that your video card isn't on he right hertz my brother had something similar before

SSD, will give your computer a very noticable speed increase. It wont up your fps but you will notice yoru systm gets alot snappier

it may be overpriced, but it has better heatsink then the cheaper ones!

yeah, youre a man who talks though he knows nothing, you say that clocks mean nothing ha? if you have a ram with 400mhz or 800mhz which will run faster? 800!
and rams go to high temperatures! so you need good cooling for it, especially if hes doing video editing, cause rendering really brings the heat up!
and actually i would tell him to get AMD cause its cheaper and better, especially for editing, but hes probablly a intel whore just like you all!!!

Why overclock an i5? The performance increase will be negligible. It's not the computations that slow you down its things like cache misses, which will load from your 1333MHz memory.

They USED to be a lot slower than ram. But the fundamentals are no longer like this. You see, RAM bus is outside the chip, hence subject to abysmally slow speeds compared to intra-chip solutions. It also means that the speed growth of the connections is limited. And while harddrive read/write speeds are increasing EXPONENTIALLY, similarly how hard drive sizes are, the linear growth of ram speed cant keep up. So hard drives ultimately have come close to the speed of RAM read and write, only being limited by the same outside-chip fundamental problems.

On June 14 2011 07:28 stevarius wrote:


Save the money, you don't need backlighting.

I did not read this, so I am posting it.

Reformat your computer.

This as far as I know is "universally" known requirement with any new components.

Numbers really dont matter much.

Is your PC stable? (i.e. does not crash during stressPrime or similar tests)
If so, then the temperature is perfect.

Dont worry too much if the sensor says 30 or 60, who cares? What you want is a stable PC, not a cool or warm PC....right?

I'd say its much more dangerous to have blind faith in working temperature specified in the white papers (OR ON A FORUM DESIGNED FOR GAMING!?).

You think the specific temperature is important, i value stability of the system more.

tbh you are ok with a slightly damp cloth as long as you are gentle+careful and dont run any power through the cpu until its totally dry