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March 24th, 2006, 11:25 PM
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No More Ideas Left...(FPS)
Hi,
Since I bought WoW it has been laggy, but it has got a lot worse (FPS standing still around 20, when moving between 3 and 12.) First of all, i noticed on the WoW forums that they had encountered lots of problems with the GeForce FX series, and i have a FX 5500 so i went out and bought a GeForce 6 6600. That improved my FPS by about 2...sooo...next I did a SpeedFan check and posted...here. So i took out the CPU fan and heatsink and cleaned it all out. I connected it again and this happend... Later i thought of putting some CPU grease on and it worked. But then, when i tried playing world of warcraft, after about 5 mins, the pc just turned off. So i put in an old extractor fan and that did the trick and i played without a crash. BUT, my fps is still as said above, i have totally run out of ideas...PLEASE, can anyone help?? Specs Pentium4 3.4GHZ processor. GeForce 6 6600. 1GB Ram. 200GB HD. Motherboard is a Gigabyte but thats as far as i know.. 2mb Bband. Thanks, Tom
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March 25th, 2006, 12:50 AM
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Well your specs seem fine. How much stuff do you run in the background and have you checked for virusus/spyware?
As a regular here I assume you know the system hogs and how to check for virusus/spyware. Also do another test with speed fan, you havn't actually said if you got the temp down or not. I think Pentium4s get slower when they overheat
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March 25th, 2006, 12:53 AM
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No viruses or spyware. Only thing running in background is Norton AV.
Current temps with this window only one open: Temp1: 40c Temp2(i think is CPU): 62c (was 80c before extractor) Temp3: 31c HD0: 41c Temp1 (dont know why temp1 is repeated): 22c. Thanks for help, i am going to bed now i'll check for replies in the morning. 
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March 25th, 2006, 05:52 PM
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Does this mean my CPU is bust?
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March 26th, 2006, 01:29 PM
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Should i change my pentium to an athlon?
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March 29th, 2006, 07:46 PM
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WoW Problem
Hey i have a tracert of connecting to WoW, does this help in any way?
Tracing route to us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com [12.129.232.109] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.*.* 2 15 ms 14 ms 14 ms esr5.ilford5.broadband.bt.net [217.47.23.144] 3 13 ms 14 ms 14 ms 217.47.23.13 4 15 ms 14 ms 14 ms 213.123.78.1 5 16 ms 17 ms 16 ms 217.41.170.74 6 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms 217.41.170.42 7 15 ms 15 ms 14 ms 213.120.192.145 8 15 ms 14 ms 14 ms core1-pos8-2.ilford.ukcore.bt.net [194.72.20.97] 9 13 ms 14 ms 14 ms transit2-pos5-0.ilford.ukcore.bt.net [194.72.20.154] 10 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms t2c2-p1-0.uk-ilf.eu.bt.net [166.49.168.101] 11 82 ms 81 ms 79 ms t2c2-p4-1.us-nyb.eu.bt.net [166.49.208.114] 12 83 ms 81 ms 82 ms 12.126.124.37 13 142 ms 143 ms 144 ms tbr1-p014001.n54ny.ip.att.net [12.123.3.1] 14 162 ms 163 ms 163 ms tbr1-cl14.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.10.2] 15 146 ms 144 ms 143 ms tbr1-cl1.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.10.6] 16 142 ms 141 ms 141 ms gar3-p360.sffca.ip.att.net [12.123.13.157] 17 169 ms 167 ms 167 ms mdf1-gsr12-2-pos-7-0.lax1.attens.net [12.122.255.254] 18 510 ms 153 ms 150 ms mdf1-bi8k-1-eth-2-4.lax1.attens.net [12.129.192.62] 19 Cheers.
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March 31st, 2006, 12:40 PM
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That temp sounds very high for a P4. Try cleaning out all the dust, putting some arctic silver paste between processor and heat sink and buying a good cpu fan. If that still doesn't work it may be a prob with the processor.
Before you do that though get another program like everest home edition to double check the temps.
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March 31st, 2006, 08:13 PM
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ALready done that.
Problem now worse: gamne crashes and error message reads: Quote:
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March 31st, 2006, 09:51 PM
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Read this
Have you tried running mem test? I still think there is a prob with that temp IF it is accurate, but i would run memtest anyway. Download it from here and create a bootable cd or floppy.
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April 2nd, 2006, 01:10 AM
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It really sounds like your CPU is getting to hot and shutting down. Take the CPU out and use rubbing alcohol to clean the old paste off. Then apply arctic silver and reinstall your CPU just make sure to follow the instructions on applying the paste. You should get a better HSfan for your CPU too. What case fans do you have in your case? Plus when you installed your new Graphics card did you uninstall the old drivers from your other card before installing your new card?
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