Why the performance difference?

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Hi all, just wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to why my computer loads into games a lot slower than a friend's similar system (everything is at standard clock speeds):

My system:

Core 2 Duo e6600
Gigabyte GA 965P DS3
2GB Geil 4-4-4-15
Western Digital 250GB SE16 (16MB cache)
8800 GTS 640MB


My mate's:

Core 2 Duo e6600
Asus P5B (P965)
2GB Corsair 5-5-5-18
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 17 160GB (8MB cache)
x1900xt 256MB


I have some ideas but I'll see what other people come up with first. When I bought my system I assumed it would be faster in terms of loading games but it seems not. TIA
 
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Glad to see some responses

About the 8800GTS taking longer to load textures etc, I also thought that but then we do have exactly the same settings in game so I'm not overly sure

we've both run 3Dmark 06, I got 2000 more points so it seems to be a problem purely with loading rather than graphics.

For example during loading of BF2 my hard drive makes a lot of noise, it isn't NCQ but then I don't think his is (although his ICH8R chip supports it)

what synthetic benchmarks are there out there that may simulate game loadings with respect to hard drive performance?
 
I've found out that my mate runs 2 hard drives. He has an 80GB hard drive with windows on and the 160 GB one for games

I have one 250GB hard drive with everything on atm
 
artaxerxes said:
You cheat!

You didn't tell us the true specs!

That seems like a resonable reason.
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could you maybe expand on that?

how exactly would that help? I haven't got a secondary hard drive atm (only an external USB 2 one)
 
that would seem to be the reason then

seems odd though as his 80GB one is an ancient SATA 1 drive. I may even try installing my games on my external USB 2 drive and running them

so if I were to get another drive what would you guys recommend? a smallish, say 80 or 160 GB NCQ drive?

oh and another thing, 16MB cache (apposed to 8) or NCQ?
 
well my budget will not stretch to a Raptor so the best 80 or 160GB drives (say under £50, although I'm open to all suggestions)
 
all great points guys

I've got rid of all unnecessary services and I do defrag quite regularly

so I'll get another 80GB hard drive I think and use the 250GB as a games / backup drive

if I do this should I set up another partition on the 80GB windows hard drive and use this for the pafegile or am I reading the above information wrong?
 
t31os said:
My raptor has the full use of its 74gb, creating partitions just splits the data more imo, so you don't necessarily get all your OS system files, boot files at the fastest area of the disk.

This is how i have mine....

C: Windows - Drive 1
D: Storage - Drive 2
E: Games - Drive 3
F: Aps - Drive 3 second partition

I keep everything i can off the windows drive, and have Diskeeper manage auto defrags everyday and also let diskeeper manage my pagefile.

I can confidently come onto the PC everyday and find it runs the same speed..... not noticed any slow downs as yet....

I've slipstreamed SP2 onto my XP install to, and believe this is also smoother then a plain XP install > patch with SP2.
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what are the sizes of the drives and partitions out of interest?

sorry about all the questions but the slipstream of sp2 bit, I have an official copy of xp but its an ancient one now and doesn't have sp2 included (or slipstreamed) is there a way of making it so that it installs both then without contacting MS for a new disk?
 
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