Bottlenecking WTF is going on here...

Start with the specs...

Intel Celeron D 3.2 stock Overclocked to 5.1ghz with watercooling
3 gigs of ram,
Geforce 9800GT 512
2.5TB's of space
Windows 7 32bit

I know I know, **** processer..

This system was running great a while ago, could run damn near anything on high and have 30+fps, Wolfenstein and unreal tournament 3 for exampleran flawlessly with all settings cranked all the way up,

But about 3 or 4 weeks ago my buddy starting messing around with it and ever since then it hasnt ran right, so I reformated. I havnt tried unreal tournament or wolfenstein again, But Command and Conquer Tiberium Wars is giving me troubles... I can run great with all the settings up, but usual after a while the game starts lagging for no reason, and dosent go away untill a system restart, after it starts lagging in the game the whole system will lag after I exit the game. I tried to play a game of Day of Deafeat Source and it ended up doing the same thing.

As for what my buddy did, he split my main 1tb hard drive into 2 500gb drives, installed boxee, and yammm, ever since that day I havnt been able to run games right again ~_~

Anyone have any idea whats going on here?Bottlenecking WTF is going on here...
get a new processor...since u overclocked it, it's lifespan is also decreased so ur processor may not be able to keep up anymoreBottlenecking WTF is going on here...
If that Celeron is really at 5.1 Ghz put the speed to 4ghz or stock speeds.
RTS games are heavily reliant on the CPU, and celerons have the least amount of cache out of Intel's entire lineup. The Netburst architecture was designed for overclocking, which is why the flaws were never fixed. The CPU needs to reprocess some data, but teh clock speeds more than make up for it. But anyway, the amount of cache that your CPU has does matter quite a bit. Are you sure that your friend is to blame?
LOL unstable OC also it's kinda pointless on such a sucky CPU.................
why would you waste money on watercooling a Celeron?If it's 775 socket buy a E8400/8500 and overclock that
[QUOTE=''eikast'']why would you waste money on watercooling a Celeron?If it's 775 socket buy a E8400/8500 and overclock that[/QUOTE]



some people like to squeeze every last drop of performance out of what they buy.
I know people who OCed those for kicks back in the day, but as a main system? You can have a cheap Pentium dual core for $60 and it will OC nicely and be a million times better.
[QUOTE=''-GeordiLaForge-'']RTS games are heavily reliant on the CPU, [/QUOTE]RAM too. Have you tried pulling up Task Manager to see where all your CPU utilization and RAM are going?