I have the following system:
Athlon XP 2500+ @ 3200+ (200*11)
Sapphire Atlantis ATI Radeon 9800 PRO
512MB Kingmax PC3200 SUPERram (200 Bus, 400MHz, c lat 2.5)
Leadtek K7NCR18D PRO II Deluxe Limited
Creative Live 5.1 Digital
2* Western Digital Cavair 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB cache.
Windows XP Pro sp1a
My performance in games such as Far Cry and Unreal Tournament 2004 is not what I would expect. A friend has a system with a 2100+, Radeon 9600XT and 768Mb PC100 SDR Ram and his performance in these games is far greater than mine. Also he has a huge number of background tasks running (over 25), and often has other programs running and still has better performance, and I only have 14 background tasks running (in the processes window of task manager). There is only a few things that I can think of that can cause this. Either his 768Mb RAM is responsible for the better performance; I have shut down a necessary task that would lead to detrimental performace (unlikely); I am not giving my processor enough juice for it's overclock (1.728 Vcore, read in windows); Don't like my memory timings (7 - 4 - 4 - 2.5). The strange thing is, 3D Mark 2001 SE gives me a score of 16329, and my mates system gets a score of 9500. My power supply is giving enough juice and I have no heat problems at all (processor at 38C idle, 49 Max load).
One other thing is my hard disk allocation, this is shown in the shot below:
The unknown file types are Linux Swap and System partitions. I have a swap file size of 512MB in all system partitions, is there a better way of organizing my hard disks?
So, does anyone have any ideas? I would be very grateful! Thanks for listening