Hey tom's hardware community! I have a serious problem with my home built computer that I hope you guys can help me with.
I'm at a loss on why my computer is running so slowly even when it's doing nothing. Here's the problem:
I get fluctuations of 1%-80% CPU load when I'm at my desktop. Also my RAM usage is hovering at 1.8 GB.
Consequently my mouse stops and starts and it's almost impossible to get anything done (let alone game!)
I have NO background programs running except for AVG which is turned off and my USB headphone driver and Razer Mouse driver.
What could this be??? I recently defragmented my hard drive and it's now 0% fragmented and it's still running slow.
What could it be?
Here are my system specs:
Windows 7
NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (at 2.81 GHz)
ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2
4 GB DDR2 RAM 666 MHz (linked with CPU FSB, not sure how fast it is right now)
1 TB HD
Thanks so much
I'm at a loss on why my computer is running so slowly even when it's doing nothing. Here's the problem:
I get fluctuations of 1%-80% CPU load when I'm at my desktop. Also my RAM usage is hovering at 1.8 GB.
Consequently my mouse stops and starts and it's almost impossible to get anything done (let alone game!)
I have NO background programs running except for AVG which is turned off and my USB headphone driver and Razer Mouse driver.
What could this be??? I recently defragmented my hard drive and it's now 0% fragmented and it's still running slow.
What could it be?
Here are my system specs:
Windows 7
NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (at 2.81 GHz)
ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2
4 GB DDR2 RAM 666 MHz (linked with CPU FSB, not sure how fast it is right now)
1 TB HD
Thanks so much