Problem 1:
During any game that I play, such as COD4 or BF2, I get strange consistent lag. I would describe it as: every 10 minutes, the game stutters (or freezes) for 1 sec every 5 sec for 2 min (still with me?), then goes away for another 10 min. It's worse when a map is first loaded too, but then keeps coming back.
I have all recommended requirements, except for maybe my CPU which may be out of date. I didn't have this problem before though.
Tried restarting, reinstalling (before I realized it was for all games, not one), closing background tasks, but none helped.
The only thing that helped was a defrag, which reduced the length of each studder, but did not completely solve the problem.
I'm thinking maybe its my hard drive, because it's getting pretty full (50% of 250GB), but didn't think this would cause this big an issue.. Thoughts?
<-- specs.
Problem 2:
This is a problem with my brother's computer. He was complaining about a noise that would start up and stop afterwards. We looked inside and it was the inside fan on a 600W Ultra (I know... it came with a good barebone deal) PSU.
We checked temps, CPU activity, but nothing was out of the ordinary. His specs:
Q6600 @ 2.4 Ghz
XFX 8800 GT
XFX 680i LT
ULTRA 600w
2GB Corsair memory
Win XP 32
250GB seagate HDD
The fan (which is quite noisy) would start up randomly and stop shortly after. It happens at any time, whether the PC is running a game or just sitting on the desktop. The other PSU fan at the back is running normally, and is always on.
Any ideas on either problem?
During any game that I play, such as COD4 or BF2, I get strange consistent lag. I would describe it as: every 10 minutes, the game stutters (or freezes) for 1 sec every 5 sec for 2 min (still with me?), then goes away for another 10 min. It's worse when a map is first loaded too, but then keeps coming back.
I have all recommended requirements, except for maybe my CPU which may be out of date. I didn't have this problem before though.
Tried restarting, reinstalling (before I realized it was for all games, not one), closing background tasks, but none helped.
The only thing that helped was a defrag, which reduced the length of each studder, but did not completely solve the problem.
I'm thinking maybe its my hard drive, because it's getting pretty full (50% of 250GB), but didn't think this would cause this big an issue.. Thoughts?
<-- specs.
Problem 2:
This is a problem with my brother's computer. He was complaining about a noise that would start up and stop afterwards. We looked inside and it was the inside fan on a 600W Ultra (I know... it came with a good barebone deal) PSU.
We checked temps, CPU activity, but nothing was out of the ordinary. His specs:
Q6600 @ 2.4 Ghz
XFX 8800 GT
XFX 680i LT
ULTRA 600w
2GB Corsair memory
Win XP 32
250GB seagate HDD
The fan (which is quite noisy) would start up randomly and stop shortly after. It happens at any time, whether the PC is running a game or just sitting on the desktop. The other PSU fan at the back is running normally, and is always on.
Any ideas on either problem?
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