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so ibuilt my self a computer about a year and a half ago and it is top of the line. It plays battlefield 2 and unreal and counterstrike/half life sources and everything better then most. But with vista the cpu usage some times (more often then not) is kinda high and slows the copmuter down. What do i need to fix that? more memory? what item does that fdall onto?

2007-03-16 03:07:03 · 4 answers · asked by lyd285 2 in Computers & Internet Hardware Other - Hardware

but if i put another 2 gig of memory in my computer is that going to help or is it my cpu?

2007-03-16 03:22:01 · update #1

i currently just upgraded to the amd thlon 64 x2 5500 cpu, 4 gig of ram, i currently have the nvidia 7800 GTX video card with 256 meg of memory. Is it worth upgrading to say like the 8800 GTX or is it going to perform the same and i just have to wait for windows to get that directx 10 out there for video games?

2007-03-19 02:47:29 · update #2

4 answers

Seems you are into video games, so I recommend you to increase your RAM, should be at least 1 GB. if you have 256 MB graphic card would be good to, the CPU is not an issue, but it shouldn't be less than 2000 HZ

2007-03-16 12:55:33 · answer #1 · answered by Xenophile 5 · 1 0

Vista is designed for tomorrow's hardware, not yesterday's. If you put XP on a machine designed for Windows 95, it would run slow. Same thing here.

Vista was designed for systems using dual core processing (mainly Intel Core 2 Duo's), at least 2GB of RAM, and a 128MB or 256MB graphics card. SATA harddrive wouldn't hurt, either.

Look at all the new PC's at Best Buy. They all come with these specs. The Pentium line is over...everything is moving to dual core...with "big" RAM. I put "big" in quotations because today's "big" will be tomorrow's "small".

I'm running Vista Ultimate on two big LCD displays with Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe, 3GB RAM, and 512MB ATI graphics card, and there isn't anything I could do to make it slow down or lag.

2007-03-19 09:19:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Vista is a resource hog and still has quite a few bugs in it. Try to isolate what process is causing your CPU usage to go so high and see if there is a patch to fix the problem.

2007-03-16 10:14:06 · answer #3 · answered by Yoi_55 7 · 0 0

Hi. Use 'Task manager' to stop un-needed programs and turn off Aero temporarily.

2007-03-16 10:25:59 · answer #4 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0 0

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