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Problem with my girlfriends computer, it's the first time she has used it for gaming about 2-3 years, and we have started playing WoW again, but her system runs fine for a random but after 1-10 mins it starts stuttering and FPS drops for 2-3 seconds and then goes back to normal around 60fps (on high). it has been doing this for weeks and we have tried everything  I can think of, updating drivers, reseating graphics card, cleaning dust out, reseating GPU cooler and applying new paste, and formatting/ reinstalling windows, nothing we have tried has worked. any help would be greatly appreciated as she lives too far away for me to just pop around !(WE NEED OUR WOW)

 

update: The GPU doesn't run too hot hitting around 70°C

 

here system is as follows:

q6600

XFX nForce 750i SLI Motherboard

GTX260

4gb Corsair XMS2

windows 7 64bit

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Could definitely be the cpu bottlenecking. That thing is pretty ancient it greatly depends on what games are doing that. 

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Could definitely be the cpu bottlenecking. That thing is pretty ancient it greatly depends on what games are doing that. 

 

The system used to work fine, the GPU is only a GTX260 so I highly doubt bottlenecking and just World of warcraft.

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what games? what card?

GTX260

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if it's a 768 ram card it could be lack of vram.

could be newer games.

card be going bad.

did you do a motherboard driver refresh? ( slimdrivers should help ) you don't need to install everything but you should be able to see what's necessary that it finds. IT WORKS MIRACLES ON OLDER BOARDS. ( OR YOU COUKLD SEEK OUT DRIVERS FROM NVIDI OR FROM BOARD MANUFACTURERS SITE.

I had several of those cards (260's). they do die.

the 750 boards weren't exactly great by any means. it's kind of old and they used to get hot. did you check the dust on the heat sinks and on the cpu heat sink?

how's the air flow?

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if it's a 768 ram card it could be lack of vram.

could be newer games.

card be going bad.

did you do a motherboard driver refresh? ( slimdrivers should help ) you don't need to install everything but you should be able to see what's necessary that it finds. IT WORKS MIRACLES ON OLDER BOARDS. ( OR YOU COUKLD SEEK OUT DRIVERS FROM NVIDI OR FROM BOARD MANUFACTURERS SITE.

I had several of those cards (260's). they do die.

the 750 boards weren't exactly great by any means. it's kind of old and they used to get hot. did you check the dust on the heat sinks and on the cpu heat sink?

how's the air flow?

 

The only game played is World of Warcraft  (the systems passes the min spec)

and the pc was formatted, new drivers installed 

She removed all dust from the computer

and the airflow is okay. two 80mm intake fans and another two aimed on the GPU from the side panel, plus 3 80mm exhaust fans 

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giving it a try now :)

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Nope didn't work, same problem

 

 

 

74°C PCB board temp 50°C

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what wow game is it?

 

set afinity to 1core?

 

the nb and sb chipsets get really really hot on those boards.

 

did your GF  try another ram slot?

 

World of Warcraft, tried pretty much everything, and first thing she tried before asking me was trying other ram slot/removing a stick, trying both sticks on there own.

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malware scans?

 

what programs are running while trying to game?

 

Nothing, the computer has been formatted, no old hard drives used

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suggest putting in more cooling to the PC and the mobo esp

 

it sounds like the CPU or mobo is throttling down from the heat

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cpu throttling was the next suggestion. maybe even pull the heat sink and reapply new thermal paste after a clean up.

 

still, those motherboards were very very hot in themselves. I never used mine for very long. was troublesome.

 

what about a cmos reset? maybe the voltages are screwed up in some way.

 

if I remember correctly, back then the nvidia chipsets were disgraceful in heat output.

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