Slow 4.0GHz

[Cashboxer]

You can read in my sig what I have in my system and I thought I was running pretty fast. I just built another system around a older E6400 chip that I took out of a wore out Dell. When I got it up and running, it does everything TWICE as fast as mine. He has a newer hard drive and 4 gigs of ram. I guess those 2 things put together makes a big difference. This is what I put in his system:

Thermaltake M9 VI1000BWS Black SECC Steel ATX Mid Tower

ASUS P5QL PRO LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX Intel Motherboard

G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb

Antec PSU 500W

ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler

His ASUS board is SO MUCH easier to understand the bios!!!!

 

[Maverick0984]

Your system should be plenty fast. My guess is some other outside factor is to blame. How recent was the install of Windows? (I assume?) Vista/XP ? Installed programs? Drivers?

btw, <3 Asus

 

[TheCheat]

If Im not mistaken, that hard drive is a single platter unit... which gave it a significant boost in speed compared to its older competitors. Also... I noticed a decent bump in speed and overall smoothness when I moved to 4 gigs of ram.

Its not a surprise you saw a such a significant boost in speed... in todays machines the Hard drive is the biggest bottleneck.

 

[jediman]

also something to think about
at one point I had my computer overclocked to a marginally stable state and it behaved more slowly/strangely than it would with moderately less OC. might be worth extensively double checking the current stability of the system.

 

[noegruts]

You can read in my sig what I have in my system and I thought I was running pretty fast. I just built another system around a older E6400 chip that I took out of a wore out Dell. When I got it up and running, it does everything TWICE as fast as mine. He has a newer hard drive and 4 gigs of ram. I guess those 2 things put together makes a big difference.

Yup. A lot of people seem to think that the CPU is what matters most for a "fast" system. The reality is that, unless you are performing tasks that are CPU-bound (such as video transcoding), making your CPU faster is going to have very little or no influence on your overall system speed.

The whole computer is like a chain. You can't make a chain stronger by reinforcing just one of the links.

 

[Mr.Guvernment]

ya the harddrive will make things appear to open faster, but for anything cpu intensive yours will beat the other easily.