Multitasking on C2D..seems real poor

[nealh]

I have a e6600@3500 with ram at 500mhz on RD600..system in sig(working on establishing P95 blend stability at 3500)

when opening programs and doing many single tasks ..it is faster but not as fast as I expected over my opty170@2800 given new core and 700mhz of increased speed

However, it seems very slow if I try to open a new app, IE, Win Explorer etc if running another program like AV or AD Ware Pro

if running Office 2007 and surf..no issues but if the program is somewhat intensive it sure seems to slow my setup down....

anyone else experience this

FWIW..I am not and have never used RAID

 

[Shimmishim]

i've had zero problems with programs lagging on start up... weird...

 

[dguy6789]

If your hard drive is the limiting factor, no amount of processing power will help you. You should spread your workload over multiple hard drives, or perhaps invest in a raid array to help performance.

 

[postmortemIA]

Originally posted by: dguy6789
If your hard drive is the limiting factor, no amount of processing power will help you. You should spread your workload over multiple hard drives, or perhaps invest in a raid array to help performance.

Very true. For any ~2.0+GHz (non-P4) CPU, the bottleneck is going to be hard drive.

 

[Mogadon]

In this case I disagree that the hard drive is causing you problems. Maybe if you were burning a dvd or two and doing other stuff at the same time. On my C2D setup, which is similar to the OPs, I have none of the multitasking issues mentioned.

I would look elsewhere, maybe the 'working on establishing P95 blend stability at 3500' would be somewhere near the root of the issue, it's probably best to get a totally stable system before you start to troubleshoot multitasking issues.

 

[nealh]

Originally posted by: Mogadon
In this case I disagree that the hard drive is causing you problems. Maybe if you were burning a dvd or two and doing other stuff at the same time. On my C2D setup, which is similar to the OPs, I have none of the multitasking issues mentioned.

I would look elsewhere, maybe the 'working on establishing P95 blend stability at 3500' would be somewhere near the root of the issue, it's probably best to get a totally stable system before you start to troubleshoot multitasking issues.

sorry..hate to have implied I am maybe be stable at cpu...at last check 3500nhz and 500mhz on ram was 6hrs running blend

No my setup is 24hr blend stable at 3420 and I see the same issue

if I am running an AV or spyware...things really slowdown when opening anything else

running "reg apps" not an issue

BTW..the system has tested at a higher vcore 12hrs blend stable when stopped at 3500 with 1T..but tweaking vcore as low as possible

I really not sure what gives..maybe this is to be expected with AV software..I recall such lag on my opty ....maybe it is the RD600 latencies....

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: Mogadon
In this case I disagree that the hard drive is causing you problems. Maybe if you were burning a dvd or two and doing other stuff at the same time. On my C2D setup, which is similar to the OPs, I have none of the multitasking issues mentioned.

I would look elsewhere, maybe the 'working on establishing P95 blend stability at 3500' would be somewhere near the root of the issue, it's probably best to get a totally stable system before you start to troubleshoot multitasking issues.

Scanning every file on your hard drive for either a virus or for spyware is as disk-intensive as burning a DVD, but it adds a significant amount more processor and RAM usage. It's definitely his problem.

 

[nealh]

Originally posted by: myocardia

Originally posted by: Mogadon
In this case I disagree that the hard drive is causing you problems. Maybe if you were burning a dvd or two and doing other stuff at the same time. On my C2D setup, which is similar to the OPs, I have none of the multitasking issues mentioned.

I would look elsewhere, maybe the 'working on establishing P95 blend stability at 3500' would be somewhere near the root of the issue, it's probably best to get a totally stable system before you start to troubleshoot multitasking issues.

Scanning every file on your hard drive for either a virus or for spyware is as disk-intensive as burning a DVD, but it adds a significant amount more processor and RAM usage. It's definitely his problem.

ok but why did the opty not seem to so as much....I thought C2D was significantly faster...

 

[postmortemIA]

Originally posted by: nealh

Originally posted by: myocardia

Originally posted by: Mogadon
In this case I disagree that the hard drive is causing you problems. Maybe if you were burning a dvd or two and doing other stuff at the same time. On my C2D setup, which is similar to the OPs, I have none of the multitasking issues mentioned.

I would look elsewhere, maybe the 'working on establishing P95 blend stability at 3500' would be somewhere near the root of the issue, it's probably best to get a totally stable system before you start to troubleshoot multitasking issues.

Scanning every file on your hard drive for either a virus or for spyware is as disk-intensive as burning a DVD, but it adds a significant amount more processor and RAM usage. It's definitely his problem.

ok but why did the opty not seem to so as much....I thought C2D was significantly faster...

it doesn't make difference unless you are doing something very cpu intensive... most regular windows apps take lots of CPU during load time and never again.

 

[WoodButcher]

Is it possible your mobo has not recognized the dual core? I saw a thread here somewhere, check the device manager. Mine is snappy even with scans running, It won't slow down unless I'm stress testing, Orthos, Prime 95, CPU Stability Test Copyright 1999-2000 Jouni Vuorio, Real Time HDR IBL, all at the same time!
My HD is a sata 3.0 if it matters,

 

[Regs]

Crack open CPU-Z and make sure your memory settings are correct.

I saw a world of difference when I set my memory to tighter timmings after my mobo had them on auto.

I also was suprised when I noticed I didn't have one of my RAM dimms not locked in all the way.

Either that or you have something running the backround soaking up resources.

 

[Canai]

I have an E6600 @ 2.8, and currently am burning a lightscribe disc, am alt-tabbed out of cs:s, have rosetts@home running on both cores, have music going, and have three dl managers going.

I just opened office with no lag at all.

System in sig... no idea why you are having problems.

 

[postmortemIA]

Originally posted by: Canai
I have an E6600 @ 2.8, and currently am burning a lightscribe disc, am alt-tabbed out of cs:s, have rosetts@home running on both cores, have music going, and have three dl managers going.

I just opened office with no lag at all.

System in sig... no idea why you are having problems.

maybe because you have 7400rpm HD

 

[Canai]

Originally posted by: postmortemIA

Originally posted by: Canai
I have an E6600 @ 2.8, and currently am burning a lightscribe disc, am alt-tabbed out of cs:s, have rosetts@home running on both cores, have music going, and have three dl managers going.

I just opened office with no lag at all.

System in sig... no idea why you are having problems.

maybe because you have 7400rpm HD

haha yeah!

Oh man, I feel dumb now

 

[RichNY]

FWIW, I have a E6600 machine at stock speeds that I built back in November (right now, it's so fast that I don't think I'd notice benefits from overclocking so I'm saving it for later). Primary drive is a WD Raptor 150GB, 10,000RPM drive, so that might be helping, but ZoneAlarm can run a full scan without any noticible impact on typical front-end applications like Firefox, Excel, and even Photoshop Elements 5.0. I haven't tried video editing or gaming with Zone Alarm running.

One thing I did notice is that there seems to be some sort of prioritization happening. I didn't think XP was very good at this so maybe it's something else, but if I leave the machine for a while and return while it's scanning, it'll be sluggish for a few seconds. Seems to "transition" the scan to the background. After that, everything runs perfectly. This is a subjective observation...

Good luck!

 

[StopSign]

By "slow" do you mean it feels sluggish and there seems to be something hogging up CPU cycles? My system did that when it was unstable due to excessive undervolting. It was Orthos stable just like yours so maybe your machine isn't as stable as P95 led you to believe?

 

[hardwareking]

u should check ur hard disk for spyware,virus etc...anything that eats up cpu cycles.
If ur clean try a defrag of the HDD.
If that doesn't work back off ur OC a bit.
ANd if that doesn't work try a fresh install of windows.