Zonnza
10-24-09, 08:09 PM
I been using my old computer recently till I can get the ram for my new computer. It has 2 harddrives in it, the OS drive is 250gb size and the other is 320gb. The OS drive is more then 3 years old, maybe almost as old as 4-5 years possibly. The other drive is 2-3 years old.
I noticed a month ago that after I defraged both harddrives on the computer, that everything was much slower. I used something called MyDefrag (formally JKDefrag). I let it defrag and optimize my drives and it ran for a majority of one day, and overnight till the afternoon of the next day. Now to be perfectly honest, I never ran a defrag before that one EVER. My brother was just bragging about how much faster his computer got after he used JKdefrag and I decided to read up on it and was impressed with the reviews. So knowing the last time I reformated that drive was 3 years ago and never defraged in those 3 years afterwords, I decided to give it a shot. After the defrag, everything was really slow.
By slow I mean that:
Sometimes the first time I try to load up skype, it freezes/crashes and I have to end process and restart it.
Seeing horrible drops in frame rate in any and all video games. In WoW my fps went to under 30 in environments that previoously gave me 90+. In and stream or CS game, my FPS went from ridiculous high FPS to 9-13fps. In this simple game called Subspace Continuum, my fps droped from 60+ to 18-20.
I tryed lowering all graphics settings since they were mostly maxed out. No change. Even in counter strike, my fps was still 8-13 after I had minimall gfx settings.
Im almost dead set that it is the hard drive but I need some feedback to know if Im right or just fooling myself.
System Specs:
Intel Core 2 duo e6600 cpu, 8800gts msi gpu, 850w ocz gamextreme psu, some evga mobo - cant remember exactly (never gave me issues), 2gb ddr2 ocz platinum revision dual channel ram, those 2 above mentioned HD (both WD drives).
I noticed a month ago that after I defraged both harddrives on the computer, that everything was much slower. I used something called MyDefrag (formally JKDefrag). I let it defrag and optimize my drives and it ran for a majority of one day, and overnight till the afternoon of the next day. Now to be perfectly honest, I never ran a defrag before that one EVER. My brother was just bragging about how much faster his computer got after he used JKdefrag and I decided to read up on it and was impressed with the reviews. So knowing the last time I reformated that drive was 3 years ago and never defraged in those 3 years afterwords, I decided to give it a shot. After the defrag, everything was really slow.
By slow I mean that:
Sometimes the first time I try to load up skype, it freezes/crashes and I have to end process and restart it.
Seeing horrible drops in frame rate in any and all video games. In WoW my fps went to under 30 in environments that previoously gave me 90+. In and stream or CS game, my FPS went from ridiculous high FPS to 9-13fps. In this simple game called Subspace Continuum, my fps droped from 60+ to 18-20.
I tryed lowering all graphics settings since they were mostly maxed out. No change. Even in counter strike, my fps was still 8-13 after I had minimall gfx settings.
Im almost dead set that it is the hard drive but I need some feedback to know if Im right or just fooling myself.
System Specs:
Intel Core 2 duo e6600 cpu, 8800gts msi gpu, 850w ocz gamextreme psu, some evga mobo - cant remember exactly (never gave me issues), 2gb ddr2 ocz platinum revision dual channel ram, those 2 above mentioned HD (both WD drives).