Having issues. Is my system just not up to par?

[entwineryche]

I currently have the following system.

Q6600 OC to 3.51
8 GB memory
2 GTX 275 1792 in SLI
EVGA 780i SLI MB

No matter what settings I use, I have problems with sound clipping ie. Xenoblade, or low frame rate in Super Mario Galaxy 2 despite having decent FPS. Which I find really odd. It doesn;t seems to matter what resolution I play at either which I find interesting as well. Still the same problems.

I have tried various things and nothing seems to work. Is my system just not up to par? I am about to upgrade to LGA 2011, but as it is not quite out yet I still try messing with what I have. I just bought two GTX 580 Classifieds, but have not received them. From what I gather it your CPU is really makes the most difference and this will not help at all?

Anyone else having more success with their Q6600s?

Thanks for the help.

[naoan]

Regarding Xenoblade, have you tried *searching* yet?

[entwineryche]

Regarding Xenoblade, have you tried *searching* yet?

Yeah I have for sure. I am also running Windows 7 Enterprise x64. I have tried numerous builds. I am currently running 3.0.

I know it isn;t mkuch to go on. I could go into more details, but it just seems no matter what settings I use it doesn't matter at all. So I'm guessing it is a CPU bottleneck more than anything else.

[NaturalViolence]

Sound clipping in xenoblade is a normal issue from what I hear (I don't actually have the game). Slowdowns in super mario galaxy 2 are normal for every cpu except overclocked sandy bridge cpus.

[naoan]

Regarding Xenoblade, have you tried *searching* yet?

Yeah I have for sure. I am also running Windows 7 Enterprise x64. I have tried numerous builds. I am currently running 3.0.

I know it isn;t mkuch to go on. I could go into more details, but it just seems no matter what settings I use it doesn't matter at all. So I'm guessing it is a CPU bottleneck more than anything else.

Use build with xenoblade patch, try changing to xaudio2.