Am I crazy? 930D better than E8500?

[DougDeVore]

Hey all-

I just switched offices and also computers, but my new computer (E8500\4 gigs) seems more "jittery" when multitasking. Both were\are running XP and very similar software.

I work mostly with office applications such as visio, word, etc.. However I do find a decent amount of time behind visual studio\C.

I notice it mostly when quickly switching between apps - Firefox to Visual studio to outlook. It seems like there is a split second delay when doing this that was not there with my old computer (930 processor). I also seem to be able to hang this machine a little easier than the old one. Does this have to do with cache?

Am I crazy? I've checked to make sure there is no scanning, disk processing, etc. going on in the background. Ideas?

 

[WT]

Different antivirus installed ?? That can make a difference in a PC that feels sluggish but should not be.

 

[pauldun170]

I run a laptop with an i7 620 + 7200 drives + 4gb ram elitebook at work.
It runs slower than the old Core 2 T7700 + 2gb ram laptop running at home because of the crap my job has running on it (the i7).

I hate McAfee with a passion.

 

[blckgrffn]

I run a laptop with an i7 620 + 7200 drives + 4gb ram elitebook at work.
It runs slower than the old Core 2 T7700 + 2gb ram laptop running at home because of the crap my job has running on it (the i7).

I hate McAfee with a passion.

I do too - same type of experience.

For the OP - how about video cards? Did the old one have one whereas the new one has onboard video? These desktop compositing (sp?) things seem to be at least somewhat influenced by the video resources available...

 

[Concillian]

My work PC takes seven minutes (no joke, not exaggerating, I measured it with the MS boot tracking software) to boot because of all the garbage macafee does on boot. I talk to friends who work in IT and they tell me it's not only the most intrusive of the various brands, it's also the worst at actually finding stuff too.

They must have an excellent sales department.

 

[dbcooper1]

Might be worth it to defrag the drive?

 

[trollolo]

tell your company to start using MSE, if that fails, slap your boss for me

 

[DougDeVore]

I've killed everything I can think of. We use Norton here and I even killed it. Over the next couple of days I will add stuff back on and see what happens. It seems better at the moment so it's gotta be something in the back that keeps junking this thing up.

Not sure I want to slap the boss D: but that would make for an interesting day!

 

[sm625]

McAfee slow? Well hey it takes time to mine through all your data and prepare a manifest to report to Intel.

 

[SlowSpyder]

I help build our images where I work. Even with the same OS and antivirus there can be a lot of differences between a newer build and older one, not to mention different hardware/drivers.