| Quote: | TerminatorGamer |  | |
| I recently built my first desktop with the help of a neighbor that knows alot about computers. Anyways, I have an ASUS M2N-VM DVI motherboard, AMD Athlon 64 x2 6400 Dual-Core Processor, 4 GB Ram, 22" DCLCD LCD monitor, and a Geforce 8800 GTX graphics card and a 500 watt-power supply.
When ever I would try to play games that require alot of graphics, my computer would start to slow down in even repetitions and only when I played games. Even games like Sim City 4 and Command and Conquer Generals would slow down! I thought it could have been my power supply, because it requires at least 450 watts to use and I read that my processor uses about 125W. I then recently purchased an 800 Watt BFG power supply thinking it might help the problem, but it still slows down! Any suggestions? | |
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Turn off all that AERO crap and make sure that you have non essential services set to 'background' and not of a higher priority. Setting them to background will make sure that they're only active when your system isn't. I had dumb **** like my system trying to defrag one of my external hard drives during a game! Talk about slowing **** down considerably.