Windows 7 64 Bit
AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1090T Processor 3,20 GHz
AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
2x DIMM 4 GB DDR3-1333
GA-890GPA-UD3H
Sry guys haven't had time yesterday but here we go, Churchill ur up first but Mlekce a few things here will apply to you too:
A few basics:
windows updates - mandatory! - there is no arguing here, I can simply not stress this enough (
!!!) you can't expect a system to run smoothly if you don't make use of changes based on advanced knowledge, bugfixes, hotfixes and and so on, things change, a lot not only in terms of
security but also
efficiency and especially regarding gaming. It also can't hurt to manually run the DirectX Web Installer:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35Just think about it, these things need a lot of time and money to develope, if it would not make sense would businesses have their ppl spent time and money on making it happen?
There is a lot of flawed logic out there where some enduser picked up on "
never touch a running system" but that for one is not really good advice anymore in our world today where things go as fast as ur bitcoins get stolen or Apple drops support for another "
next gen" OS and two was never meant as to stay completly away from advancement and even less from security related updates.
[It might however be wise to not blindly change things you don't know anything about of course but that really is simply a matter of common sense]
You also gotta remember who might have said such a thing years ago, the old admin type mabye who wanted you to need them? Personally I'm a firm believer in sharing knowledge wherever I have some, it might not be much but what the hell I don't keep that stuff to me just for personal gain and some elitist laughing to myself in my mothers basement, and neither should you.
If you want to stay in the game even if new "top notch" hardware is not an option you gotta maintain your system properly to get the best out of the hardware you have. A friend of mine recently bought a second 400 Euro (about $500) graphic card, that's cool and as much as I would like to have one too I'm afraid it's just not in the cards anytime soon if ever, BUT as I said there is a lot you can do with what you have, within it's limitations of course but nevertheless a lot.
If you don't put effort into that I gotta assume it's not all that important to you and that's ok but it makes no sense to then wonder why and complain how bad things are running. - just a general "
mission statement" not addressed at someone in particular but something you might wanna think about -
- up to date drivers -Basically every little component has it's own driver, some service, many components are either outdated or not really needed (com port? modem?) so update what you can and disable everything else.
On your actual system:
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loginThis does not look good but it also is quite the typical scenario, while in theory IRQ/ int sharing shouldn't cause issues anymore it in fact does not work all that great most of the times but it's also less to blame on the OS managed part as rather on the limitations of some hardware, namely the available hardware Interrupt Lines and their sharing, which most of the time leaves you few choices to work around as the interrupts are limited based on the hardware architecture and the way a manufactor designs their mainboard layout.
If you understand how it all comes together you gain a better perspective on what your options are.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupt#Difficulty_with_sharing_interrupt_lines (english)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupt#Hardware-Beispiel_x86-Architektur (german, less informative entry)
Now that we got that covered take a good look at your setup,
do you really need that firewire port enabled? Did you ever even use it? Do you use USB? If not disable it, if possible at all via the BIOS and if not through windows (hardware manager), host controller by host controller, port by port as it cut's down on possible troublemakers and int sharing issues.
For example on my mainboard I could not use USB without it getting in the way with my AHCI controller and network card, it would cause all kinds of lag/ slow downs and affect the other components (
interrupt lines hardware design limitation). LatencyMon helps to pinpoint these and other issues.
Everybody uses USB nowadays, for your mouse, your keyboard, your printer, usb sticks and such... it's just so easy, so comfortable,... of course there are other ways to go about things and I can live perfectly fine with disabling USB alltogether in my BIOS and enable it as needed when I can't do without say an usb stick. So that's somethign you gotta think about.
My keyboard and mouse now work fine with PS/2 adapters (of course newer boards won't have that port anymore so their owners are outta luck and gotta hope their USB implementation/ mainboard layout is not flacky in that regard) without the strain USB would put on my system. The least one can do is to disable as many USB ports/ host controllers as possible if you can't live with it completly gone. Who really needs like 30 USB ports anyway, right?
To give you some ideas; unused, manually disabled components:
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power management, while in theory it works "
well enough" systems especially in gaming, sound and video editing (where low latencies are required) can gain a lot from disabling at least some power management/ energy saving mechanisms.
Mainly CPU related ones like PowerNow!/ speedstep/ EIST, C1 Halt states (via BIOS) and within windows core parking for example.
So look up your BIOS for these and also check if your board offers HPET (usually a 32 and 64 bit mode) and if it does enable it as it is part of a further step to optimize things on your system Churchill.
Some more settings to tinker with on the OS base, optimize your power/ energy plan
to fit ur usage scenario (eg. switch between "
high performance" and "
balanced" mode as needed):
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and check if an AHCI setting is available, if it is, carefull don't enable it just yet if it aint enabled currently as that could render ur system unbootable if the proper driver is not installed beforehand. [based on your screenshots AHCI is enabled and that is good, just need to update the drivers
]
Also you don't seem to use AMD
chipset drivers, which you should, so go get them NAOH!
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/12-4_vista_win7_32-64_sb.exeFor a general idea on the other components see GBs download page but do not use their drivers just use it to orientate as most of what ucan find there is outdated (even tho probably newer then what u got installed now if anything)
http://www.gigabyte.de/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3516#dlOh and do not forget ur BIOS can be updated as well (but careful now son don't mess things up, a power outage might ruin ur day).
For now I gotta go but this should help to cover a good base to look into.
