Gigabyte SATA and seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB

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Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB)
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case - 450W Smart Power PSU
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit Scythe Ninja Plus Rev.B Heatpipe CPU Cooler
HIS ATI Radeon X1900 XT ICEQ 3 SILENT Heatpipe 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI

When starting my pc (windows xp home) it seems so sluggish and i only built the system 2 weeks ago. I serriously expected a massive jump in performance compared to my old celeron 2.4ghz 512ram but i honestly would say that the windows performance is just the same!!! But on the other hand im getting 100+fps in css with everything high and im getting 5500 in 3d marks 06.

im sure its something to do with my harddrive because every time i have a slow down the HDD light on the case is on clicking away. and the cpu speed is at like 5-10% when viewing it in task manager!


Ive tried installing the SATA controller drivers off the mboard website (gigabyte) but with no differance in performance...

any ideas guys!?


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It's performing a tad under my 7200.10 (68Mb/s) but that is better by about 7MB/s than other normal 7200rpm drives (longitudinal). Your access is a bit high - mine is about 12.9-13.1ms other than that, it really looks to be performing fine.

In fairness, it should be a bit better but not leaps and bounds better than a Celery 2.4. The DC will help with multi app openings etc and you say gaming seems fine so try the normal things like a defrag of the disk, perhaps change SATA cable, make sure you are not using a stupid AV like Norton (dirty resource hog).
 
If nothing else, your 7200.10 is operating in SATA-I mode, I have the same Hard Drive and my burst speed is 247.3 MB/S. Provided your motherboard supports SATA-II, you should totally remove the jumper from the back of your HD. Not sure that doing that will give you better results in terms of access time etc though.
 
As El Jimben says, take the jumper off the drive. I've just had a similar problem with my 7200.10s on a DS4 mobo and HD Tach reported a 50% performance increase after I took the jumpers off.

You may also get better performance if you use the Intel SATA controller rather than the Gigabyte.

Jonathan
 
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Tried installing the intel sata controller and it wouldnt leave me install it, sure its the correct controller. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Removed the jumper and its just as slow!!!

this is the hd tach... are the drops normal??

 
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I noticed drops like that when let windows use disk cache ( cant quite remember what it was called ) - but it was unticked under device manger your hard drive properties.

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Looks like a classic "freeze spike", possibly due to an IRQ sharing conflict or hardware failure. Try moving the mouse during the test, if the mouse freezes with the spikes, you're looking in the wrong place.

Also, fire up Performance Monitor and track the CPU and a few other items at the same time.

My hunch is that isn't a HD caused dropout your seeing...
 
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