computer underperforming

[lockmac]

I have an Asus A8V, Athlon 64 3500+, 512 HyperX RAM, 200gb Seagate HDD, Gigabyte 9600XT. Anyways, I believe my system is underperforming, or maybe I was expecting too much from it when I built it. I have done a clean install, and in many aspects my Pentium 2.4 beats it. It seems to be temperarily freezing for like a few seconds when doing something and overall it just seems very sluggish. No overclocking has been done, does not have any viruses or spyware as it hasnt even been connected to a LAN or internet. What programs can I use to test the performance? I know there are programs out their that test a computers performance, and I would like to do this and compare my score with others with similiar setup.

Any help would be much appreciated

 

[Duvie]

My P4 2.4 at 3.5ghz loses out to most things my A64 3000+@2.6-2.7ghz can do now...So I find this interesting....

The sluggishness and temporarily freezing isn't right defintely...

Try apps like

superpi 1mb or 2mb
sciencemark
winrar or winzip a block of files (same files for both will be needed)
povray rendering
cinebench2003 (single cpu only)
Take an avi file (same for both) and use TMPGenc (free demo) to convert to an mpeg2 file...


stay away from sandra and synthetic apps as they are not good cross platform...Also stay away from video intensive apps unless you have same vid card in each system....

Have you ran any apps to check HDD performance and health???

 

[Stormgiant]

Also, did you install all the drivers that came with the motherboard CD ???

 

[Edward Lee]

Your system now should smack that P4 system around like a rubber chicken.

I would take a look at your drivers. You probably have older versions running your system. I would definately upgrade ALL your drivers and try again.

 

[bobsmith1492]

DRIVERS

Did you do a clean install when you built it? Wait; yeah, you did. Make sure you have all drivers.

Oh, also check in BIOS to make sure RAM isn't running at 100MHz or anything wierd.

 

[sodcha0s]

Also, are you using SATA hard drives? I had similar problems with my Neo2 when I first got it, turned out I didn't have the drive set up properly in the BIOS. The drive worked like that, but performance was bad until I got it configured the right way.

 

[FlameDeer]

Also check your RAM for clock speed and timing that is supported.