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Performance Issue on new Gear, Help?
Hello everyone, Im hoping someone here has some advice on a performance issue...
i recently upgraded my computer, however for some reason im constantly seeing this message appear more fequently then it ever did before the upgrade..
Its asking me to disable my win 7 aero theme to improve performance, that recources are low etc.. however i recenltly upgrade from 4gb of ram to 8, and to a new video card..
System Specs:
HD Radeon 6870 Vapor-X (this is new just installed)
AMD Phenom II 955 black edition 3.2 Ghz quad core processor
Ripjaw Series 4 sticks of 2gb ram total 8GB (Recently installed two 4gb sticks)
ASUS M4A79XTD EVO AM3 AMD 790X ATX AMD Motherboard
no idea why i would even have this trouble...
under my Catalyst control center i unlocked the overdrive to do some overclocking but i never overclocked anything... when im not doing anything the GPU clock is 100mhz and the memory clock is 150mhz.. i just recently got off a game, Shogun2 took a quick look at it and the gpu clock was at about 900mhz and the memory clock was about 1000mhz if i remember correctly, i dont know if this helps anyone...
a friend told me i may have an issue where directx 9 was conflicting with directx 11.. because i just came off a dx9 card which was the hd radeon 4850 and just installed the new card 6870.. like dx9 and 11 are running at the same time or something...
can anyone offer any advice?
by the way, the only thing on the PC thats pretty old is the power source, i believe its 450watts, not sure if that could cause this issue however.