How to figure out if hardware is slower than it should be?

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Published on 2010-03-26T20:36:37Z Indexed on 2010/03/26 20:43 UTC
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I'm pretty sure that my computer is slower than it should be and it has been that since a got it.

For instance it lags a lot in Counter Strike Source. And yes I've installed all the newest drivers.

And it doesn't matter what OS I uses. I've tried both Windows, Linux and FreeBSD and it's slow in all of them.

So what could this be? Is there something wrong with the hardware? And if, then what could it be?

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