My chipset heat-sink fan stopped spinning on my motherboard (ASUS A8N-SLi) and the system started to bottleneck, I have bought a new motherboard and that wasn't the problem.
Anyone have an idea what might be causing the bottleneck, all my components seem to be working but the processor utilization will jump to 100% depending on the program I open. The physical memory usage is also resting at 45% when idol.
My initial impression is that the processor has been damaged but I can't be sure without testing each component separately.
Graphics : NVIDIA 6800 GT
RAM : Corsair 512MB XMS3200C2PT Platinum *4
Processor : AMD64 3000+
Motherboard : ASUS A8N32-SLi
PSU: ANTEC NEOPOWER 480W
Anyone have an idea what might be causing the bottleneck, all my components seem to be working but the processor utilization will jump to 100% depending on the program I open. The physical memory usage is also resting at 45% when idol.
My initial impression is that the processor has been damaged but I can't be sure without testing each component separately.
Graphics : NVIDIA 6800 GT
RAM : Corsair 512MB XMS3200C2PT Platinum *4
Processor : AMD64 3000+
Motherboard : ASUS A8N32-SLi
PSU: ANTEC NEOPOWER 480W