Bad performance
 

I've got Gigabyte FX 5900XT, Athlon XP 2600+, Epox nForce2 Ultra400, 256Mb TakeMS, Quantum 20Gb 5400rpm and i get about 4900 in 3D Mark 2003 and 13700 in D3D Mark2001SE. I never overclocked.
I'm not very satisfied with my comp. In the newest games i get suttering and some moments with bad performance, the game freazes for a couple of seconds and i don't understand why!!!
The settings are not very high but the same thing in almost every game. What could be the cause?

what does this have to to with "webnews" ???


mod's, plz move

your hd is quite old and slow, that can be the reason for the freezes in the games

but the 3dmark score are quite normal

3dmark doesn't read from the HD, 5400rpm is the culprit, upgrade it to a nice 8mb cache 7200rpm drive, or if you have the money... the Western Digital Raptor @ 10000rpm

you will notice the difference right away, also upgrading the ram from 256 to 512 will speed up your system a lot!

what speed is the ram?
even if its pc 3700, i would think that 256 megs only would slow you down

i have a 5400 rpm hard drive, but its a maxtor fireball ata133, so its still marginally faster than a seagate 7200 /ata100 of the same size, in any case, getting a bigger/ faster hd would definately help

Hmmmm.....
Rotation is the key to a HD transfer, NOT it's labeled ATA speed.
There is a limit to the amount of data that passes the heads of the hard drive. Current hard drives barely reacht stable speeds of over 70MB/S.

Thx for the move (I really didn't know where to post)
The memory is at 400 but is working at 333 for sinq with the proc. (is this good or not?)
Another memory module and another hard are on the waiting list but I don't have any money now. Witch is most important?

go for the memory, an extra 256Mb will speed up games loading times for sure.

a new HD will speed up windows boot time and general disk intensive tasks.

but the memory will be your best bet.

running sync @ 333 is good

i have the fireball 3, freestyle, with only 1 40gb platter, whcih allows the 5400rpm speed to work well
with 2 or more platters, i could see a higher speed being needed, what i was basically saying is that my 5400 1 plat 40gb beat out a seagate 2 plat 7200rpm, but only by a little bit of the ransfer speed, i would take either