My Computer is so slooooow!

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estarkey7

estarkey7

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I built a new PC with a 8120-FX, Asus Evo, 16GB Ram, a 120 GB Crucial M4 boot drive and Segate Cuda Green 2TB 5400 data drive running SATA III and DVD burner running SATAI, with a few spare hard drives running off of a PCI IDE adapter. All of this on Win7 x64. My only deficient hardware is the old ATI 2600XT graphics card I have pushing 1920x1080 to my monitor, but I don't do much gaming right now so that is okay.

I swear this computer feels slow to the desktop, slow when starting programs, slow when bringing up the control panel, just damn slow.

I have a dual core Athlon system with 4GB ram an on board graphics that is snappier than this thing! Is it that Bulldozer is actually this bad? I've checked everything from power options to processor frequency and pc usage, and the only time this thing gets really going is when I do a virus scan and Norton lights up all eight cores and this things really flies through the scan.

Anybody have any ideas?
 
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bononos

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It shouldn't be that slow. You'll need to give more info on your tsr's that are running. As the previous poster noted Norton is notorious for sucking up resources, antivirus progs constantly scans almost every newly opened file and you might want to turn it off temporarily to see if it helps.
 
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bononos said:
It shouldn't be that slow. You'll need to give more info on your tsr's that are running. As the previous poster noted Norton is notorious for sucking up resources, antivirus progs constantly scans almost every newly opened file and you might want to turn it off temporarily to see if it helps.
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I had issues with my old laptop... McAfee was sucking up so much of the CPU it pretty much locked up. As soon as I uninstalled it... *foop!* it started to run better.

Maybe use Task Manager to see what all is running as well...
 
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When I run SSD test, they do very well. The biggest thing I see is when doing things like opening up photoshop takes longer on my Bulldozer than on my Intel Core2 laptop with a Vertex 2.

Another disappointment is blender. I thought it would be faster rendering than it is, although I know I need a new graphics card real bad - a 7950 is in my near future...
 
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richaron

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Have you monitored CPU usage whilst opening a big program like photoshop? Is photoshop installed on the ssd?

Apart from rendering speeds... I'm still assuming the storage is to blame, especially 'cos of your odd setup. I would unplug all hdds (not ssd) & the pci controller to see how that compares.
 
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Topweasel

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Ran into similar issue with a Turian X2 laptop I gave to my sister. I only want to bring up a Turian to get an idea of how old and slow it is. Probably comparable to a really slow Athlon 64 X2. Anyways, it has managed to run pretty well in Win 7. That was until a couple of months ago. The machine actually loads into windows pretty quick but then everything after that was extremely slow. Took a look at it a couple of weeks ago, turns out Kapaskerky was murdering it. Everything was taking 4-8x longer because the on access scan was malfunctioning.

When all else fails. Its the Antivirus's fault. That or your CPU is throttling down due to temp.
 
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If it's not the hard drive, the next thing to check would be the CPU. Is it running the right speed? It is overheating?
 
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bononos said:
It shouldn't be that slow. You'll need to give more info on your tsr's that are running. As the previous poster noted Norton is notorious for sucking up resources, antivirus progs constantly scans almost every newly opened file and you might want to turn it off temporarily to see if it helps.
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Wow, TSR is a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.
 
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mfenn

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Topweasel said:
Ran into similar issue with a Turian X2 laptop I gave to my sister. I only want to bring up a Turian to get an idea of how old and slow it is. Probably comparable to a really slow Athlon 64 X2. Anyways, it has managed to run pretty well in Win 7. That was until a couple of months ago. The machine actually loads into windows pretty quick but then everything after that was extremely slow. Took a look at it a couple of weeks ago, turns out Kapaskerky was murdering it. Everything was taking 4-8x longer because the on access scan was malfunctioning.

When all else fails. Its the Antivirus's fault. That or your CPU is throttling down due to temp.
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Turian == Crazy bony face guys in Mass Effect
Turion == Old AMD mobile processor
 
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I would expect the Bulldozer to be bad at rendering because it only has 1 floating point unit per every 2 "cores" and rendering is all floating point operations.

As for system slowness, try opening the Resource monitor and keeping an eye on the disk queue length while you're opening programs. Also try disconnecting from the Internet and seeing if that makes a difference.
 
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I checked my frequency with the Asus windows software that came with the motherboard, and it showed the CPU running at 1755Mhz or something. So I went into the BIOS and set the performance profile to maximum, and that fixed the problem.

I like the Asus software for controlling the fans on my system, but Now I have FOUR places to check for performance/power profile: Asus Bios, Asus Windows software, Windows power options, and ATI Overdrive!

Crazy, and that you for the help! Now it performs as I would expect it to.
 
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wirednuts

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i just had the ram in my netbook do that to me. everything was slow, and i thought it was just "its a netbook" syndrome.

then it wouldnt boot one day, and after a new hdd (didnt help) i got the hint the ram was bad. sure enough, memtest86 would show no errors for a few seconds then BAM DEEERRRRR it would show all errors on every count.

bought new ram, and this thing is screaming again. i know people make fun of atom chips, but theyre a lot worse on paper then they are in real life.
 
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