So why would an old computer load faster than a new one?

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So, there are two computers.

One is an old X2 3800 running at stock with 2GB DDR400, Seagate 7200.10 250gb drive and a 4870.

The other is an I3 530 OCed to 4.2GHz, Samsung F3 500 GB drive, 4GB ddr3 and same 4870.

Now I have noticed when we are playing Star Trek Online together, that the X2 3800 is loading levels a fair bit faster than the I3 system. It's probably not twice as fast, but that computer always seems to get a map loaded a good 5 to 10 seconds faster.

Needless to say, this is annoying me. There is no reason the I3 should take longer to load. Any ideas?
 
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It's a new install of windows 7 on the I3 (Xp on the X2 3800), and has been defragged. The drive is nowhere near full either.

The F3's are supposed to be one of the fastest normal drives available. So there is absolutely no reason why this should be happening.

The game itself does run better on my machine, but the slower load times make me think something is wrong.
 
Have already tried setting my ingame settings to defaults where the XP machine has some extra settings enabled. Didn't make a diff.

Apart from both machines running an AV and steam, neither really has much running in background.

Is this really likely just a windows 7 "feature"? If anything, it should be far more able to take advantage of improved hard drives and their features?
 
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