Performence problems

Hello,
I built a computer and for the life of my i do not know why its acting like it is. I am getting overall poor performance. mainly its in graphics but the cpu is getting bested in most test i give it.

Western Digital Raptor WD740ADFD 74GB 10000 RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

XCLIO Godspeed Two Advanced Fully Black Finish 0.5 mm SECC / ABS Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

OCZ Platinum 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model (2 of these so 4 gigs total i set the timming namualy my board coulnd do it right)



SAPPHIRE 100251SR Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB 512-bit (256-bit x 2) GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire

EVGA 132-CK-NF79-TR LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 790i Ultra SLI ATX Intel Motherboard

Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 Wolfdale 3.33GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor (oced to about 3.89ghz)



SIGMA MONSTER SP850C 850W Continuous @ 40°C ATX12V 2.2V /

In performance 6.1 test of this computer come out to be 1000 roughly it seems to be lacking in graphics and cpu according to thee test.

I'll give you three reasons why performance might not be upto what you expect,

1) you have 2GB of ram, 4GB is recommended for ALL recent games.

2) you have one of the old Raptor's, these are known for poor performance and are easily beaten by the latest 7200rpm HDD's.

3) you're using an overpriced dual core when you could have gotten a Q9550 for the same price.


you should have came here before you bought, that 4870 X2 is a waste of money since the DX11 cards coming out in Q3 will make that card obselete, you also combined an nvidia chipset with an ATi card, used a raptor hard drive, a generic PSU, and 2GB of ram.