I just upgraded after years of a pretty crappy temporary computer, and im loving my new rig but its not as explosive fast like i thought it would be...i was thinking lighting pages reloading and what not. Its fast....its just not like eye popping fast that i thought it would be. But then again maybe my expectations were way to high or something.
Now heres a few things though that i do know, vista 64 was/is a must....and its on its way hopefully tomorrow. So this rig is built with vista 32 currently, so maybe thats kind of holding it back a bit which i thought i did read before.
But the new tech is all so new to me, so im just not sure.
Heres what i got...and i7 920, gtx 295, 6gb of 1600 DDR3, a gigabyte extreme mobo and a 1 tb sammy HDD.
Now even without vista 64, i was able to fire up and ran crysis....i dont think it was on the highest settings but i thought i had it cranked a bit. But it ran smooth as silk.
I guess its just kind of like the web pages and what not, even pages ill be refreshing just sometimes doesnt feel like its firing them out there quick as possible....like being able to see a picture load bit by bit....not like it takes forever its just not a BAM right there like i thought it would.
Again maybe my expectations were too grand, its just i went from a sorry sack of crap to this and i was thinking id be blown out of my shoes.
What tests are best to do to check some performance numbers? If i see some numbers or benchmarks then i think i can just sit back and enjoy if i know that whats there is really running great comparitively speaking.
Any advice would be great.
Now heres a few things though that i do know, vista 64 was/is a must....and its on its way hopefully tomorrow. So this rig is built with vista 32 currently, so maybe thats kind of holding it back a bit which i thought i did read before.
But the new tech is all so new to me, so im just not sure.
Heres what i got...and i7 920, gtx 295, 6gb of 1600 DDR3, a gigabyte extreme mobo and a 1 tb sammy HDD.
Now even without vista 64, i was able to fire up and ran crysis....i dont think it was on the highest settings but i thought i had it cranked a bit. But it ran smooth as silk.
I guess its just kind of like the web pages and what not, even pages ill be refreshing just sometimes doesnt feel like its firing them out there quick as possible....like being able to see a picture load bit by bit....not like it takes forever its just not a BAM right there like i thought it would.
Again maybe my expectations were too grand, its just i went from a sorry sack of crap to this and i was thinking id be blown out of my shoes.
What tests are best to do to check some performance numbers? If i see some numbers or benchmarks then i think i can just sit back and enjoy if i know that whats there is really running great comparitively speaking.
Any advice would be great.