Hardware

[Brandy1123]

a lot of people ask, wonder or proclaim things about thier hardware. Will it run, can it run, or it wont run a game or application. Reading the label on the box is not always the best indicator. Not all DDR3/DDR5 modules are created equal. Not all power supplies, Motherboards or Graphic adatpers are either. Each one has a standard it must meet to obtain the rating it does. Sometimes, that standard is just a configuration of the hardware and not the actual hardware specifications. All 550TI cards are not going to give you the same output. Not all memory rated at 1333 mhz speed is going to process and allow data to be usable at the same rate.

 

Posting that you have an AMD quad core, 6GB MB with a 550TI and win7 -64 , really says little of your system.

 

What is the architecture of your MB and the manufacturer?

What is the latency and speed of your DDR's, is it over clocked?

How much available physical memory do you have?

Are you overclocking your MB or GPU?

What type of hard drives do you run and what configuration are they in?

Is your Power supply capable of supporting all you run and not be peaked out

Do you have compatible drivers for all your hardware

 

By todays standard, a typical puchased plug and play computer will be a fully functioning box. You will not know, in most cases, who manufactured each item or what the specific specs of anything will be. You will find FRU numbers, ISO codes, and if your lucky, a MAC code that at least points you towards the manufacturer. Doping and clean room activities at the manufacturing level can dictate how well your system can possibly be. This is not to be a lecture on technology practices, but a document to open the eyes of the uninformed. a lot goes into making a system compatible and operational. Discrete components can have adverse effects if not tuned to each other properly.

 

No one here wants to trouble shoot your system for you. At least not for free. I help as often as I can, but what you have as your system is more then just 60 letters of mumbo jumbo. It has a lot to do with software installed, removed, defragmentation, HD failures, spyware, malware, firewalls, routers, proper installation and removal of any form of the latter. It also has to do with page files, avaiable memory and shared memory. There's device interfaces, cable type and lengths, bus frequencies and more. There can even be bottle necks with your monitor/TV as far as native and forced resolutions, vertical refresh rates and over all refresh of the monitor being used. Onboard (integrated) sound takes up valuable bus clock cycles and causes a loss in CPU preformance for other activities.

 

There's a lot going on to get the pixels, OLEDs, LEDs, or Photons to illuminate on your monitor to form the images. I hope this at least gives some understanding as to why you may never get a reply when you post "here's my system, my game wont run". It takes a lot of time and effort to troubleshoot a system. Adding software makes it even worse

Edited March 22, 2012 by Brandy_123