Slow Performance From Q9450, 6GB RAM

jamesfreddie

jamesfreddie

jamesfreddie

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Hi to forum members,

I have been experiencing quite slow PC performance it dosent seem very responsive it takes about 2 minutes for the machine to become usable after the logon screen. My specs are in my sig and here is a HD Tune picture.

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I think my HDD seems very slow.

I have run many different virus scans etc. and the machine still seems slow.

Could you please help me?

All help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Is the slow performance a new occurance?

You're correct about the HDD though. It is slow, but that's nothing new.

 
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jamesfreddie said:
I will not be reinstalling windows i really do not fancy copying all my stuff etc.

The machine has seemed slower ever since i put that hdd in it.
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Which HDD did you have before?

Did you do a fresh installation of Windows when you installed the new HDD or did you clone your old installation to the new HDD?

Using a HDD with Windows already installed from a different system is a no no.
 
jamesfreddie said:
I had a 320gb hitachi hdd sata 3.5".
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That doesn't help me much but I don't imagine there is much difference in speed.

The Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 320GB, for example, doesn't seem any quicker.

What about the other question I asked?

Surveyor said:
Did you do a fresh installation of Windows when you installed the new HDD or did you clone your old installation to the new HDD?

Using a HDD with Windows already installed from a different system is a no no.
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And have you installed any software you didn't have before?
 
Buchanan0204 said:
Sometimes you must wonder why you bother, :rolleyes:

I know I do!
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Too true.

I've lost count of the number of threads where I've replied to the original post and then the thread just drifts off into the mists of time without any further response from the OP.

Perhaps the third times a charm with this one.
 
Surveyor said:
Too true.

I've lost count of the number of threads where I've replied to the original post and then the thread just drifts off into the mists of time without any further response from the OP.

Perhaps the third times a charm with this one.
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haha. It would appear not. There's still time however.
 
You could try doing a Defrag of your HDD in case of back sectors or fragmented data. You'd get better performance if you added a 2nd drive and RAID 0 striped them, but you'd have to backup and restrore to do that. Personally, I'd get a better faster drive running at 7200rpm and 8ms access time as max. Also, you will also see performance issure if your data capacity increases above 70% on that disk. Delete or move old data to a secondary disk. You could also do a system clean and reg clean incase of system bloatedness.
 
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