Hello all, thanks for stopping by!
I built a computer earlier this Summer; the intent was to make a helluva game/multi-tasking platform.
For some odd reason, if I try and watch a DVD (In Media Player) AND Play a game (Eve Online) the CPU & Memory Widgets max out and the computer freezes up. Running either one or the other (Either Media Player or the game) keeps those meters at roughly 30%. So I'm not sure exactly what's going on here and/or how to make up for this (as part of my intent was to be able to play an MMO and watch a movie while doing so).
The pertinent nuts and bolts of what I'm running:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 Processor
Corsair Dual Channel TWINX PC6400 DDR2 800MHz [4 x 1024MB]
Two Seagate 320GB Hard Drives (RAID-0)
8800 GTS Superclocked 640MB GDDR3 (Intending to SLI in a second one for Christmas)
EVGA nForce 680i SLI NVIDIA Socket 775 ATX Motherboard (New A1 Version)
Vista Ultimate 64bit
Other bits that shouldn't really matter:
MATROX TRIPLEHEAD2GO ANALOG VIDEO EXTENDER
Three 19' Acer LCD's
DVDROM & a DVDRW
Is what I'm doing really THAT resource intensive?! Or might something odd be going on here? I've cleared out background applications (Security Suites and what not) without noticing anything difference.
Might this be a Threading issue? I know it's possible to dictate what runs on each core, but it's not something I've really looked into as yet (as in I'd need to learn how before I could)
I built a computer earlier this Summer; the intent was to make a helluva game/multi-tasking platform.
For some odd reason, if I try and watch a DVD (In Media Player) AND Play a game (Eve Online) the CPU & Memory Widgets max out and the computer freezes up. Running either one or the other (Either Media Player or the game) keeps those meters at roughly 30%. So I'm not sure exactly what's going on here and/or how to make up for this (as part of my intent was to be able to play an MMO and watch a movie while doing so).
The pertinent nuts and bolts of what I'm running:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 Processor
Corsair Dual Channel TWINX PC6400 DDR2 800MHz [4 x 1024MB]
Two Seagate 320GB Hard Drives (RAID-0)
8800 GTS Superclocked 640MB GDDR3 (Intending to SLI in a second one for Christmas)
EVGA nForce 680i SLI NVIDIA Socket 775 ATX Motherboard (New A1 Version)
Vista Ultimate 64bit
Other bits that shouldn't really matter:
MATROX TRIPLEHEAD2GO ANALOG VIDEO EXTENDER
Three 19' Acer LCD's
DVDROM & a DVDRW
Is what I'm doing really THAT resource intensive?! Or might something odd be going on here? I've cleared out background applications (Security Suites and what not) without noticing anything difference.
Might this be a Threading issue? I know it's possible to dictate what runs on each core, but it's not something I've really looked into as yet (as in I'd need to learn how before I could)