Might want to take a look on the powersupply too.
Why? It's not crashing. I'm getting increasingly tired of people suggesting Power supply for issues like this. Power supplies being underpowered do
not cause poor performance, they cause crashes, sudden power-offs, and reboots.
If the driveshaft in a car is too thin/brittle to transfer the power from the engine to the wheels, it'll
break, and
all power will be lost... It'll never just give reduced performance.
Poor PSUs are responsible for many things, but poor
performance isn't one of them. :roll:
Now, maybe his PSU will die relatively quickly due to the amount of load on it (I agree, it does look a little low for a scotty, but it's probably ok for a Northwood... His CPU could be either. If it's a Fortron then he'll probably be ok either way for a while..) but it's not the source of his immediate problem. If you can find a single verified situation where this is the case, then I'll gladly concede the point.
juanes287:
My thoughts on the problem? Either throttling, or some background process (Virus scan, messenger, etc) momentarily trying to grab system time for some reason. Make sure to shutdown everything in the background that you can, and do a spyware/Adware scan, just in case.