Another Noob, Sorda

[Shooting Lucky]

Alrighty, I made the mistake of Buying a pre-built gaming rig from Gateway. So far I hate it. It lags like hell and I've had sound problems with it since I made the godforsaken purchase a year or two ago. And, I spent about $6,000.00 US. I deserve to be s***, I think. Anyways! The Specs are as follows, and, feel free to pass along any obvious tweaking to make this baby run better.

Gateway FX530XL
Intel Core 2 CPU
X6800 @ 2.93GHz
2.93 GHz, 2.99 GB of RAM (Plus anoth GB of RAM that doesn't register for some reason)

I've mo clue how to pull up more detailed information about the guts of the comp. Any pointers on that would also be appreciated. x.x;

[Google]

[Shooting Lucky]

Found out how to get detailed info. Woo.


OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name YOUR-B9737CDE2E
System Manufacturer Gateway
System Model FX530XL
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 6 GenuineIntel ~2933 Mhz
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 6 GenuineIntel ~2933 Mhz

Total Physical Memory 4,096.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 2.17 GB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.93 GB
Page File Space 4.84 GB



Name Creative X-Fi Audio Processor (WDM)
Manufacturer Creative Technology, Ltd.

Name Radeon X1950 Series
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_7240&SUBSYS_0D021002&REV_00\4&16020E22&0&0008
Adapter Type ATI Radeon Graphics Processor (0x7240), ATI Technologies Inc. compatible
Adapter Description Radeon X1950 Series
Adapter RAM 512.00 MB (536,870,912 bytes)
Installed Drivers ati2dvag.dll
Driver Version 6.14.10.6727
INF File oem27.inf (ati2mtag_R580 section)
Color Planes 1
Color Table Entries 4294967296
Resolution 1920 x 1200 x 60 hertz
Bits/Pixel 32
Memory Address 0xC0000000-0xF0000000
Memory Address 0xE8200000-0xE82FFFFF
I/O Port 0x00004000-0x00004FFF
IRQ Channel IRQ 16
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB
I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\ati2mtag.sys (6.14.10.6727, 2.34 MB (2,456,064 bytes), 1/4/2007 2:22 AM)

Name Radeon X1950 Series Secondary
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_7260&SUBSYS_0D031002&REV_00\4&16020E22&0&0108
Adapter Type ATI Radeon Graphics Processor (0x7260), ATI Technologies Inc. compatible
Adapter Description Radeon X1950 Series Secondary
Adapter RAM 512.00 MB (536,870,912 bytes)
Installed Drivers ati2dvag.dll
Driver Version 6.14.10.6727
INF File oem6.inf (ati2mtag_R580 section)
Color Planes Not Available
Color Table Entries Not Available
Resolution Not Available
Bits/Pixel Not Available
Memory Address 0xE8210000-0xE821FFFF
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\ati2mtag.sys (6.14.10.6727, 2.34 MB (2,456,064 bytes), 1/4/2007 2:22 AM)

Name Radeon X1950 Series
Adapter Type ATI Radeon Graphics Processor (0x7240), ATI Technologies Inc. compatible
Adapter Description Radeon X1950 Series
Adapter RAM 512.00 MB (536,870,912 bytes)

Name Radeon X1950 Series Secondary
Adapter Type ATI Radeon Graphics Processor (0x7260), ATI Technologies Inc. compatible
Adapter Description Radeon X1950 Series Secondary
Adapter RAM 512.00 MB (536,870,912 bytes)

Drive C:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System NTFS
Size 1.36 TB (1,493,562,789,888 bytes)
Free Space 1.26 TB (1,389,269,946,368 bytes)


Drive D:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 6.26 GB (6,723,321,856 bytes)
Free Space 1.72 GB (1,846,190,080 bytes)


Name Intel(R) 82801GR/GH SATA RAID Controller
Manufacturer Intel
Status OK

Name SCSI/RAID Host Controller

[[TN] Nathan]

Why do you say it is laggy as hell.

What is it doing? Have you scanned for spyware and viruses yet?

Do you have Norton Antivirus installed?
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[Shooting Lucky]

I scan the computer every friday with McAfee. I really have no clue as to why it lags. And, it doesn't really lag horridly bad, and when it does it's only momentarily. It tends to feeze up at startup and the screen goes blank for a few seconds. And an example of lag: Battlefield 2 skips frames quite a bit and gets really choppy. Am I expecting too much from my computer, or what?

[[TN] Nathan]