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    PC acting Sluggish

    in Nerd's Chatter [/nerds]

    Posted

    Yeah agreed my last mobo was Via so when I bought this one (with a tight budget) I thought id try a gigabyte board, Teach me to do my homework in future the gigabyte board is based on Via KT266A chipset so got screwed again.

     

    Still these new 4in1 drivers seem a lot better.

    PC acting Sluggish

    in Nerd's Chatter [/nerds]

    Posted

    OK its sorted couldve been 1 of 3 things

    Not enough cooling (new case fan fitted)

    Wrong IDE drivers - bit of a weird one installed Via bus master drivers which crashed windows (whats new!) so used system restore and it leaves the main Via Bus Master one but rolls back to old Primary and secondary IDE (it works for me).

    or finally

    Out of Date Via 4in1 driver - although the problem didnt exist before a couple of weeks ago.

     

    Anyways thanks for the help, im off for some MoH

    100 quid for a graphics card.

    in Nerd's Chatter [/nerds]

    Posted

    sounds exactly like a Leadtek board reviewed at £150, good value for VIVO but games performance is not the best.

    The MSI board comes in much better at gaming, in UT2003 (the only direct comparison) it beat the VIVO card by 48.51 frames to 22.26

    However the review also points out that theres still no indication of which boards will run HL2 best

    So I guess it comes down to do you want VIVO?

    100 quid for a graphics card.

    in Nerd's Chatter [/nerds]

    Posted

    The best sub 100 card is

    MSI FX5200 TD128

    it can cope with DX9 up to a resolution of 1280x1024 and absolutely kicks the equivalent Radeons butt (it has equal performance to Ti 4800). Finally the best part is the price only 62 of your finest English quids.

    Im aving one as soon as I got the spare wad

     

    Just in case you cant find it, others that are close are

    Leadtek A340TDH

    £76

    Chaintek AG8X2

    £91

     

    Info comes courtesy of this months PCFormat

    PC acting Sluggish

    in Nerd's Chatter [/nerds]

    Posted

    here goes 256mb of which 150ish is available

    Programs are AVG anti Virus, Mouse Driver,Zone Alarm and styleXP (all low resources)

    Drive is half full (or empty if youre that type of person!) and defragged

    Ive noticed that the problem is worse if there are isos or bins or movies on the drive

    and just so you know its a 7200 rpm model

    PC acting Sluggish

    in Nerd's Chatter [/nerds]

    Posted

    Is ad-aware still the great prog it used to be - reason i ask is im getting random disk access and 1-2 sec lockups - the only things that could be doing it is adware averything else appears Ok and if i use internet lock on zonealarm the problem seems to ease

    Gamespy...

    in Gossip Café [/offtopic]

    Posted

    I agree the queues can get abysmal but if you can get there in the morning (GMT) then its usually quiet.

     

    On a similar note That other one Metripoliglobal or whatever its called (mamefans and elportal) though is great I paid for the fast download with a text message 500mb at top speed (72kbps dl for me) is great especially if you fancy a laserdisc or a larger saturn game

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