A simple question - AMD systems slower to "explore"?

[gtd2000]

I have been using AMD based systems for the past 10 months or so.

The performance has been extremely good, however, I have noticed one area that my system seems to be "slower".

When I double click "My Computer" etc the speed of which the next screen is loaded seems to be much slower than with any Intel based systems I previously used/owned?

Is this simply due to having a larger HD or is this just a coincidence of my current systems?

Programs appear to load very quicky - it's just the "exploring" of the system that is slower than Intel based systems.

Any opinions on this?

 

[Migroo]

Its probably associated with hard drive speeds.

For a fair test, measure the time it takes to open my computer after a clean reboot. (on both types of system, to compare.)

You should also note the type/speed etc of the drives in those systems. There are a lot of variables that can affect hard disk performance (ATA speed, wether a drive is the slave or master of its IDE channel etc.)

 

[AMDPwred]

AMD = Suck

Hehe, kidding

 

[Migroo]

 

[CTho9305]

first, makesure both have the same model drive drive speed (rpm, etc) does in fact have a major effect

 

[Dean]

Having a CD Rom loaded into its bay but running idle will also slow down opening explorer as it or my computer will want to spool up the CD ROM to be able to read its contents.

 

[gtd2000]

I have an IBM Deskstar 7200rpm 30GB in my current system.

I know that if you have a disk in the CD/DVD ROM then you can expect a significant delay due to the reading time required. It's just that even if the drives are empty it still takes significantly longer to show the contents of "My Computer" etc etc.

For those of you using 30GB or larger disk drives when you double click "My Computer" is the next screen virtually instantaneous?
It's not on my last two AMD systems both using IBM 30GB's.

I should have mentioned that I am using Win ME and perhaps this may be having some effect on the speed?

I always used Win 98 previously, however, for me unlike many others - Win ME is the most reliable OS from Micro$oft that I have ever used. The only pain is the memory resources management - and I have 512MB of RAM!!!

 

[Journeyman]

<< For those of you using 30GB or larger disk drives when you double click "My Computer" is the next screen virtually instantaneous?
It's not on my last two AMD systems both using IBM 30GB's. >>



Totally instant. Double-click on it, it's there.

I've got a 30GB 7200RPM Maxtor and a 20GB 5400RPM Maxtor in this system. And several assigned network drives. I'm running Win2k Pro.

 

[gtd2000]

Journeyman - that exactly what I would expect - I'm not sure why it takes seconds to display the contents of "My Computer".

As you may imagine it is not really a problem - I'd just like to understand why it would behave like that?

Anybody else here using WinME with a larger (over 30GB HD?)

 

[Alex]

enable DMA on your HD...

 

[gtd2000]

I'm pretty certain all the tweaks that are possible have been enabled - but I'll double check later when I get home

 

[AA0]

mine usually instantly pops up, unless my CD or HDs have stopped spinning, then it takes 1-2 secs.

 

[S0me1X]

There really isn't any association between the slow exploring and the amd cpu. Its not like exploring your folders takes up much CPU power. Do an apple to apple comparison with clean installs of Windows and same hardware... and benchmark your folder load up speed with a stopwatch lol.

 

[sandorski]

I rarely use My Computer, but Explorer loads up instantly for me unless I have a disk in my DVD drive. Other things like the Control Panel also load instantly.

 

[Scootin159]

My computer takes about 1/2 second (slight delay) to load. The window & frame load instantaniously, but the drives appear a half second later.

System:
1.6ghz athlon
512mb ram
4x 10gb RAID 0 7200rpm drives
1x 20gb 7200rpm drive
1x 30gb 7200rpm drive
1x 40gb 7200rpm drive
3x cd-rom drives (each with a disk in them)
1x floppy (without a disk)
1x zip100 (with disk)
4x network drives

 

[JoPalm]

If you count...., "1 2" before I say 2 the window is open and fully loaded. I have the same HD as you, 30GB 75GXP on a cel500 and running win98se and winxp pro.

 

[gtd2000]

Scootin159



<< The window & frame load instantaniously, but the drives appear a half second later. >>



I have the frame load as per your experience then about a second or two to display the drive information.

It probably seems like I'm making a fuss about nothing here but looking at your system I would actaully expect it to be instantaneous. I know my old overclocked C300A@450 and PIII450@600 systems were virtually instantaneous. Half a second would be worst case scenario.

Even my laptop is virtually instantaneous and I regularly complain (to myself) about how slow it is compared to my home system in other tasks (It's a Dell Latitude PIII700)..

It must be something else that is causing it because everything else is very fast - no complaints anywhere else at all with my system other than the aforementioned system resources management with Windows ME