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Quad Core....you what?

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I've just recently moved from:

1 (one) core 3400+ , 1.5Gb Ram, 6800U, 74Gb Raptor on XP 32

to:

quad core 6600, 4 GB Ram, 8800 GTX, 74Gb Raptor on Vista 64

What used to totally lock my system was when the DVD player spooled up. What used to slow my system down was when i flicked from WoW to desktop.

Now what totally locks my system (going from 1 to 4 cores) is when the DVD spools up and when the AV system updates (I've changed from one free AV to another one). What slows the system down is pretty much the same thing, with a complete rebuild from XP32 to Vista64. What a bargain eh, Windows can still get borked with vast amounts of free resources?

Can anyone explain why my system is only moderately more responsive than it was before (lol it's Windowzlolz is not necessarily a valid reason)? I was hoping that quad core + 4gb ram would have destroyed lockups, but it seems some things just aren't affected by extra resources.
 
im on dual core and i dont get any lock ups,

have you turned all unnecesseary features of vista off?

defender real time scanning
indexing
sidebar
etc

have you turned the Av's real time scanning off?

what make and model is your PSU?

what are your CPU temps when your system decides to lock up? maybe its being throttled?

is your cpu running at full power? (theres an option within advanced settings of screensaver to change the power states of your cpu, e.g. minimum 5% and max 50%)

run HDtack on your hard drive and compare it with the raptor in its database, it should be the exact same if its different your hard drive is the problem.
 
Sounds as though you have either carried a duff piece of hardware or software from your old rig to you new one, you shouldnt be seeing slow downs or lock ups like you mention.
 
mrthingyx said:
All of those bits and bobs accessing one single, poor, lonely, overworked hard drive...
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Could very well be something that simple.

If you've carried an old HDD from machine to machine it may be on its last legs.

If it isn't at least a 7K RPM drive, get a new one. Going from a 5K RPM Maxtor to a 7K RPM Baracuda many many years ago was a huge improvement for me.
 
sepulchre said:
Its a raptor so speed should be OK, but it could be about to snuff it
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Doubtful, unless the OP had stuck it in the microwave...

Bottom line: there's only so much stuff that a southbridge can deal with, in terms of data transfer, and you've got a quad-core CPU, DVD drive, games, etc. all clamouring for a piece of that.

But I could be completely wrong. :)
 
Check event viewer to see if there are any errors logged re hard drive or dvd drive.

Also check what mode the DVD drive is running in?
 
The DVD reader is an LG model and probably about 7-8 years old. Fortunately I don't use it too often so it's something I can live with, but trying to install some mobo software off it recently was an absolute pain in the chuff (pressing ctrl-shift-esc repeatedly and having task manager pop up after 5 minutes).

I've noticed that the HDD is churning quite a lot so I have a suspicion that it may be the AV software trying to do a check every time I boot up, or something equally resource intensive.

I'll do some more digging around; not really had much motivation to troubleshoot after the hassle of building it all. I'm new to Intel, new to CPUs with more than 1 core and new to Vista. I probably just need to do some tweaking.
 
mulpsmebeauty said:
The DVD reader is an LG model and probably about 7-8 years old. Fortunately I don't use it too often so it's something I can live with, but trying to install some mobo software off it recently was an absolute pain in the chuff (pressing ctrl-shift-esc repeatedly and having task manager pop up after 5 minutes).
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half of the problem solved.

I have had disc's lock my pc up when the dvd-rom wont read them.
 
Anything bashing the harddrive simultaneously in Vista can result in either lockups or extreme slowdowns, it wasn't like that in XP but i have been experiencing it all the time in Vista.

And oh yeah, disable ALL the unneeded services, that is Defender, UAC, Indexing, all that crap, it really helps!
 
You should be flying. I've got pretty much same spec as you and I can run 3 world of warcrafts at the same time all above 40-50 FPS and flick between them all fine :S
 
dude!! you have a 7-8 years old DVD reader and you’re wondering why accessing data from it sometimes slows down your pc :confused: :rolleyes:

bledd. said:
disable defender's real-time scanning, its in the options for it it

+ do you really need av?
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Agree,

AV = suckyness :D

Problems solved!
 
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