i7 build: Windows has detected that your computer's performance is slow...

Mr.Bon · 4 Jul 2009 at 02:18

This popped up and I laughed, a £900 build and its telling me its slow? LOL
At the same time I'm also a little annoyed at this....

Spec;
i7 @ stock
GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD3R
6GB DDR3 1333MHz CORSAIR XMS3
XFX ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB
CORSAIR TX 650W
SAMSUNG SPINPOINT F1 320GB
SAMSUNG SPINPOINT F1 1TB
Silverstone Fortress FT01B

Please discuss...

Craig321 · 4 Jul 2009 at 02:29

Seems to me like Microsoft just haven't put your hardware in their database of 'decent' components yet.

Sem · 4 Jul 2009 at 02:35

ive had that happen a couple of times its probably a bug

mmj_uk · 4 Jul 2009 at 09:02

Probably just a Windows 7/graphics driver related bug I imagine.

snakefood · 4 Jul 2009 at 09:38

try refreshing your score, it may tell you which component itthinks is slow?

JeremyW · 4 Jul 2009 at 21:31

I wish my PC was as "slow" as yours

Blackhorse · 4 Jul 2009 at 21:37

I see the problem!!!

Your running the i7 at stock!!!!
Pah! Unacceptable! Needs to be overclocked for windows to considder it any good!!

Dauthi · 4 Jul 2009 at 21:39

what the hell surely a bug unless some driver issues.

Mr.Bon · 5 Jul 2009 at 03:30

snakefood said:
try refreshing your score, it may tell you which component itthinks is slow?

Hi,
I just did it, and the RAM has improved by 0.2 :confused:

Destination · 5 Jul 2009 at 08:44

Well RAM isn't your issue, hard disk is the slowest component, but its a little odd, as 5.9 was the fastest score available under vista, so why it thinks a 5.9 HD is slow is beyond me.

Morfik · 5 Jul 2009 at 11:27

I get this too, on my XPS M1530 laptop. No where near as fast as your rig but easily fast enough to handle MSN and Firefox, heh, when this randomly pops up.

Annoying thing is I can't find anywhere to disable the popup.

SuBByDew · 25 Oct 2010 at 11:08

Stupid reason for the 5.9

Hikari Kisugi said:
Well RAM isn't your issue, hard disk is the slowest component, but its a little odd, as 5.9 was the fastest score available under vista, so why it thinks a 5.9 HD is slow is beyond me.

The reason for this of that i read on another forum on tom's hardware is that if the hard drive doesn't support the TRIM feature, the score is limited to 5.9 and if it does have TRIM and can go to the max 7.9 It is kinda stupid but its how it works, so yer.

Liampope · 25 Oct 2010 at 11:34

Dont worry your computer isn't slow

Mine throws this up sometimes too. Normally if it pops up it's after some period of heavy load where the rig might have gotten a bit unresponsive. Crashing out of a game when fiddling with GPU overclocking is a good one

. Ignore it - it lies. You wont get a decent score for Hard disk without an SSD.

JonJ678 · 25 Oct 2010 at 17:37

You laugh, but you're the one who bought it off m$ despite all its exciting little quirks.

RandomNoob · 25 Oct 2010 at 22:51

that happens to me normally after playing bfbc2, i always laugh it off.

_lecro_ · 25 Oct 2010 at 23:25

RandomNoob said:
that happens to me normally after playing bfbc2, i always laugh it off.

Same here .. even though i score 7.1 on the MS test BS
I wouldnt worry about it TBH m8

ThomasTheTankEngine · 26 Oct 2010 at 18:36

Liampope said:
Dont worry your computer isn't slow Mine throws this up sometimes too. Normally if it pops up it's after some period of heavy load where the rig might have gotten a bit unresponsive. Crashing out of a game when fiddling with GPU overclocking is a good one . Ignore it - it lies. You wont get a decent score for Hard disk without an SSD.

Yeah same here.

setter · 26 Oct 2010 at 18:41

SuBByDew said:
The reason for this of that i read on another forum on tom's hardware is that if the hard drive doesn't support the TRIM feature, the score is limited to 5.9 and if it does have TRIM and can go to the max 7.9 It is kinda stupid but its how it works, so yer.

No mechanical hdd scores higher than 5.9, not even raptors/velociraptors. Only an ssd will show an increase.

reilly · 26 Oct 2010 at 21:23

Also if you have a a mixture of SSD and storage drives like I do then windows screws up and with the SSD only i get 7.8 but when and mixture is installed i only get 5.9.

Another windows bug, but I don't really pay much attention to WEI as it is only there to make you spend money when you don't need to for unsuspecting victims.

NZXT30 · 26 Oct 2010 at 22:57

it was happening to me constantly when gaming so I turned off Aero and problem solved.