Athlon X2 5000 BE acting strangely, why?
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Athlon X2 5000 BE acting strangely, why?
I'm testing Windows 7 and loving it. But something CPU-related is up. My 2.6Ghz Athlon X2 Black Edition gets an Experience Index Score of 1.8, which seems awfully little.
Rest of the components all get 2.9 or more. I'm on an Asus M3A78-VM (Ati 780G) with 2GB ram and plenty of hdd. I have tried turning off or replacing anything I could, but nothing has changed.
Here's a Resource Monitor shot, showing usage while browsing (Opera) and chatting (Pidgin). What are interrupts?
I even tested with a Athlon LE-1620 I think it was. Please let it be a driver issue, because I have already sent one motherboard in for replacement (previous PSU fried the sound chip).
Help?
Rest of the components all get 2.9 or more. I'm on an Asus M3A78-VM (Ati 780G) with 2GB ram and plenty of hdd. I have tried turning off or replacing anything I could, but nothing has changed.
Here's a Resource Monitor shot, showing usage while browsing (Opera) and chatting (Pidgin). What are interrupts?
I even tested with a Athlon LE-1620 I think it was. Please let it be a driver issue, because I have already sent one motherboard in for replacement (previous PSU fried the sound chip).
Help?
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Well, Windows 7 is Beta. We'll see how things go in future. However there is different way to utilize CPU benchmarking, the Window's own is hardly.... a good one. Since it does benchmarking own its own methods which are not always compearable other "real" benchmarks.
However we have to remember Core i7 gains tremendously when it can run 8 strings at once...
However we have to remember Core i7 gains tremendously when it can run 8 strings at once...
It didn't seem to affect browsing or music listening much, but today I tried checking blender, and it was totally unusable, as the drop-down menus took several seconds to disappear. I could see the pixels disappearing line-by-line.
Slo-mo is cool but not when you're trying to actually do something..
I don't want to go back to XP..
According to data, the real score should really be around 5.2 so I definitely have a problem. I just don't know where to look.
Slo-mo is cool but not when you're trying to actually do something..
I don't want to go back to XP..
According to data, the real score should really be around 5.2 so I definitely have a problem. I just don't know where to look.