Hi, I'm encountering quite an odd problem with a new machine I just put together that is somewhat hard to explain. First, here our my specs:
Soltek SL-K8TPro-939 motherboard (VIA K8T800 Pro chipset)
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (venice core)
Leadtek Geforce 6600GT video card
Gig ram
Basically, I just recently upgraded the mobo and CPU to these current specs, before I had an nforce 2 mobo with AMD athlon XP 2500+ CPU.
Ever since the upgrade, the general performance of the video in typical windows desktop applications (like web browsing) is laggy. For example, when I'm web browsing, each page that loads up you can see the whole page being drawn on the screen slower than normal. And also, any time I close a window you can see the window itself slowly close, it's almost like things are in slow motion. It's similar to the effect that happens when no video drivers are installed on a system, but not quite that drastic.
But here's the kicker, all 3D games run perfectly fine- Doom 3, Half-life 2, Quake 4, they have no lag. I have all the latest video drivers and mobo drivers, just flashed my mobo bios, I can't think of anything else that could be causing this problem. It's not a serious problem, the overall stability of the machine is fine, it's just a major annoyance...and I never got this with my old specs, which leads me to believe it has something to do with the mobo (I actually built a machine for a friend a year ago with the same video card and a VIA chipset mobo and it had the same problem).
If anyone else has experienced anything similar to this, or has anything to offer, please help! Thanks!
Soltek SL-K8TPro-939 motherboard (VIA K8T800 Pro chipset)
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (venice core)
Leadtek Geforce 6600GT video card
Gig ram
Basically, I just recently upgraded the mobo and CPU to these current specs, before I had an nforce 2 mobo with AMD athlon XP 2500+ CPU.
Ever since the upgrade, the general performance of the video in typical windows desktop applications (like web browsing) is laggy. For example, when I'm web browsing, each page that loads up you can see the whole page being drawn on the screen slower than normal. And also, any time I close a window you can see the window itself slowly close, it's almost like things are in slow motion. It's similar to the effect that happens when no video drivers are installed on a system, but not quite that drastic.
But here's the kicker, all 3D games run perfectly fine- Doom 3, Half-life 2, Quake 4, they have no lag. I have all the latest video drivers and mobo drivers, just flashed my mobo bios, I can't think of anything else that could be causing this problem. It's not a serious problem, the overall stability of the machine is fine, it's just a major annoyance...and I never got this with my old specs, which leads me to believe it has something to do with the mobo (I actually built a machine for a friend a year ago with the same video card and a VIA chipset mobo and it had the same problem).
If anyone else has experienced anything similar to this, or has anything to offer, please help! Thanks!