Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Voldemort

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Originally posted by blessedguy
computer case?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_case

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Yes. And I sure wouldn't use wikipedia to find a word that I don't remember. =P

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Originally posted by Chancer
Yes, gabinete = case. As Jesus said, check your temperatures.

What OS are you running, and what are your specs?

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To check temperature, is there a program or have to go to BIOS?

Windows Vista Ultimate, 32Bit
6.0.6000 Multiprocessor Free

Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz (no Overclock)

2046Mb RAM

One hard drive, 3 Partitions:
C: [NTFS] 50,000Mb Total, 19,357Mb Free (System)
D: [NTFS] 90,000Mb Total, 74,060Mb Free (Files)
E: [NTFS] 98,473Mb Total, 89,101Mb Free (Games)

nVidia GeForce 8500GT
1279Mb Total Video Memory
512Mb Dedicated Video Memory
767Mb Shared by System

Need any more info?

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Originally posted by Adeptus
Speed is relative and your computer does more than one thing.  What exactly is slow?  Try to answer that, with some possible answers being the startup time, opening all programs, using programs (non-Internet related, e.g. Word), using programs which access the Internet.

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In comparing my current speed with my old speed. Somethings are about 5x sower, while someotherthings are still the same.
Games are running pretty slowly, doesn't matter if they acess or not the internet.
Videos are slower sometimes. .wmv, .qqt or .mp4 and DVDs are running as before, but RealMedia formats are a bit slower, making audio stop for a really little while so that it is synced again with video (this happens about 1 time at each 2 minutes.)

YouTube is the weirdest of all: when the video hasn't been completed loaded, it almost doesn't play, no matter if 1% or 99.9% is loaded already. But if has been completely loaded, plays normally. Also, if I try to open more than one video at a time, the WebBrowser crashes. (Safari 3.2.1, Firefox 3, Firefox 2, Opera and IE7).

Office stuff open normally, but when typing in Word, for example, it seems to stop working sometimes, but starts working again, like if nothing had happened. (e.g., I'm writing a paragraph. In the middle of the paragraph, Word "stop working", but if I continue to type, everything will be there when it gets ok again, that's like about 2secs after that "stop")

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Originally posted by Adeptus
Next, open Task Manager (Alt-Ctrl-Delete or right click the task bar) and go to the Performance tab.  I am looking at XP at the moment, Vista may be a little different.  It's the tab with the CPU usage graphs and statistics.  Without any CPU-intensive programs open (you can leave various background things running, like Messenger), it should show a spike where you opened it, but stay fluctuating between 0 and less than 10% as you watch it over time. 

If it stays high or frequently spikes to 50% or more,  switch to the Processes tab, tick "Show processes from all users" box, and watch the list, specifically the CPU usage column.  Normally it will show 95+% going to the "System Idle Process", with zeros across the board briefly turning into occasional low numbers, as various processes running in the background do things.  If anything is using lots of your CPU, this is where you would usually see what.

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The peaks don't even reach 40% when I open a program, even games. CPU usage stays between 7%~0% when using iTunes+Safari+Firefox 3+Word+Messenger+Live Mail+System.
"System Idle Time" varies from 94% to 98%, going to 80%~60% when opening a program. I think it is normal, isn't it?

I'm still thinking of the possibility with something wrong with the RAM memory... I remeber having the same problems when I had 256Mb RAM on my old XP.

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Originally posted by Adeptus

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Originally posted by blessedguy
6Kb/sec download speed?

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If your "slowness" isn't your computer but actually your Internet connection, that will probably be something you will have to take up with your ISP.

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In fact, I called my ISP, and discovered they were with some problems at that time. They've already solved it.