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kingy53

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OK I am having major issues with my computer.

Recently my computer died so I took it to be fixed and they said the power supply has shorted out. They replaced it with a new 350W AcBel Intelligent Powersupply. I take it home and my computer turns on fine and loads up but everything is going MUCH slower.

I did a PC checkup at pcpitstop and it said my CPU and GPU were running at 40% of similar systems which is alot slower than scores i got before which were usually around 100% give or take afew. I updated some drivers and defragged my HD which improved things very mildy bringing the scores upto about 43%

I have run out of ideas why it would be running so slow, the only thing i can think of is that the power supply they gave me isn't strong enough.

My system is:

2.8GHz P4 800Mhz FBS
Geforce 6600 256MB PCI-e
512MB DDR2 RAM
80GB IDE Seagate Harddrive
About 3 extra USB/Firewire port devices attatched
Samsung DVD RW drive
This is on a Gigabyte 915P GA-8I915P Duo Pro Motherboard

So is it a powersupply problem?
Or anything else?
Anyhelp is greatly appreciated
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There's something else what needed to be done.

You need more RAM for your computer. If that's not the issue, then it's the hard drive.
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it is definitely not a RAM issue, i've had that setup for about a year now and it was running perfectly fine and then suddenly after the powersupply was changed it now runs incredibly slower than before, even when i turn down settings in games far below what they were at before it is still incredibly slow and laggy compared to what it used to be.
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