Could my settings be wrong?

[SexyGreyFox]

In July 2007 I built a new system based around this -

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600
Gigabyte GA_P35_DS3R
GeIL 4GB (4x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency

I came over from a P4 3.6 system and to be honest I was disappointed and I still am.
An example is that I've just been unraring and its going at a good speed.
I then load Microsoft Outlook and the unraring slows to a crawl and it takes Outlook ages to load in.
As soon as it loads in it goes back to speed.
I then click on Firefox and again it slows until Firefox is loaded.
I've put up with this for over a year but surely it can't be right!!!
My P4 3.6 definitely does multi-tasking waaaaay better.

Any suggestions?

 

[MarcLister]

What cooler are you using? And any idea what the temps for your system are?

What OS? Latest service pack and drivers etc?

 

[Ben M]

Make sure drivers are all setup properly.

Have you run any benchmarks to see if it performs as it should in them?

If you want it to always prioritise the rar, you could set the priority of the task in task manager to above normal, but you're right that it should multi-tast better than it seems to be doing. How much RAM do you have, and how good is your HDD? Is your RAM all being used when you try and open things whilst doing it? It may be that your cpu isn't the limiting factor.

 

[MarcLister]

How much RAM do you have.

GeIL 4GB (4x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency

 

[Ben M]

snip

I should re-read the OP half way through writing a post, to remind myself

 

[SexyGreyFox]

XP with SP2
Running chip at stock
WD Raptors
No problems in my System > Device Manager
Standard fan that came with CPU

Hmmmmm -

Temperatures:
Motherboard 66 °C (151 °F)
Aux 46 °C (115 °F)
GPU 95 °C (203 °F)
WDC WD800JD-00LSA0 31 °C (88 °F)
WDC WD4000KD-00NAB0 44 °C (111 °F)
WDC WD4000AAKS-00TMA0 46 °C (115 °F)

Cooling Fans:
CPU 3392 RPM

Voltage Values:
CPU Core 1.14 V
+2.5 V 2.00 V
+3.3 V 3.38 V
+5 V 5.03 V
+12 V 3.14 V

 

[MarcLister]

If that 66 is the motherboard that is quite hot. Could be the CPU? Which is still hot but better than the motherboard being 66. I reckon the 46 is the motherboard which is hot.

 

[Dingleberry88]

Download and install the latest drivers, particularly chipset.

Disable indexing.

Defrag.

Run Windows Update.

 

[EsaT]

I came over from a P4 3.6 system and to be honest I was disappointed and I still am.

Did you reinstall Windows when changing parts?

Are you running any (bloated) security software packages?

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Did you reinstall Windows when changing parts?

Are you running any (bloated) security software packages?

Of course.
I had Vista, then XP, then Vista, then XP, then dual booting, then down to just XP.

Esat I'm using Eset.

 

[subzero]

Voltage Values:
CPU Core 1.14 V
+2.5 V 2.00 V
+3.3 V 3.38 V
+5 V 5.03 V
+12 V 3.14 V

Does your 12 volt line actually read 3.14 thats extremely low..

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Does your 12 volt line actually read 3.14 thats extremely low..

Thats the first thing I saw.
How do you suggest I check it?

 

[subzero]

What did you use to take that reading,what does your bios say it is.The only accurate way of taking a foolproof reading is with a multimeter.

But if you use a few different ways of checking ie in the bios,whatever software gigabyte provides,everest and they all say that 12volt line is low then you have got problems with you PSU

 

[semi-pro waster]

Thats the first thing I saw.
How do you suggest I check it?

If the 12V line was anywhere near 3V you simply wouldn't be able to boot. That doesn't mean it is ok, I'm just pointing out that software readings are hopelessly unreliable at times.