Well the main thing is that I used to be able to run fraps on dawn of war retribution, and pretty much every game on the highest settings with a constant 50-60fps, no drops or anything like that.
But my computer got the bsod, and I was forced to restore my c drive to factory settings, my d drive was left untouched and I scanned it after the reformat and nothing came up. But ever since that reformat I've noticed a considerable drop in my pcs performance, it's making more noise, I can hardly run fraps on dawn of war retribution with medium settings without it dropping to 20 fps sometimes. I've tried programs such as advanced system care 4, scanned my drives with norton, updated my graphics drivers and used ccleaner. By doing all this I should have effectively full scanned and cleaned my computer but the problem still persists, I have even tried cleaning out all the dust etc in my pc and checking all the connections, nothings wrong there.
If anyone can help me with this problem then I'll greatly appreciate it.

My comp specs are:
intel core i5 processor 650
nvidia geforce gt320 1gb graphics card
500 gb c and d drives
4gp DDR3 ram
windows 7 home premium 64 bit

Did you update Windows and all your drivers after the format?

Originally Posted by Digerati

Did you update Windows and all your drivers after the format?

yes i did, it was the thing I did straight after all the scanning had been completed.

it's making more noise

Please provide more detail.

Originally Posted by Digerati

Please provide more detail.

as in, a computer will generally make noise, allbeit its usually the fans, but my computer has begun to get much louder than normal, almost as if the fans were spinning out of control, highly unlikely thats the case but its the best analogy that comes to mind.

Well note that many fans, notably those plugged into the motherboard and the fan inside the PSU are often temperature controlled. And if they are running wild, perhaps that is because they are frantically trying to cool your system down. You say you cleaned it and that is good. But you still need adequate front to back flow through the case too.

What are your temperatures?

The uptimes a bit wierd, had only just turned my computer on.
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Well, I get nervous when my CPU temps touch 60°C, and yours are there.

am a semi novice but this might be something to look into. After windows boots and you system settles down. without loading any other additional programs besides the automatic tsr's. Start the task manager and click on processes tab see if anything is continuosly running at more than 5%. if anything clocks in above 24 % it maybe your problem. had an arrant program hitting 85% once bogging me down

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