e6300 @ 2.94Ghz Feeling Extremely Sluggish

[BLOOP!]

If your memory is rated at 1066 5-5-5-15 just stick with the 4:5 divider. And give it 2.25v. You're fine there.

 

[Gomeler]

Honestly your memory isn't going to affect the speed at which you open programs, you could have the fastest set of D9 DDR3 sticks running at DDR3-2000 but if you are coupled with a fragmented and slow hard drive you'll feel like you have stepped back into the stoneage. I'd highly suggest doing a disk cleanup, disk defrag, and then seeing if you have any processes in the background. If you are running Vista it might be indexing your drive which I found really killed performance while it was sifting through the hard drive. In regards to your ram timings themselves, I'd say you are doing fine, I myself am running my 2x1GB D9GMH sticks at DDR2-940 5-5-5-15 @ 2.1v and never have a problem with "sluggish" performance. Hell back in the day when we barely had DDR-333 we had nice and snappy OSes.

edit: looks like you posted before I finished, all those processes look rather standard for a Windows install and you ram timings won't make a difference. Compare 32M SPi times between DDR2-1066 4-4-4-12 and DDR2-667 4-4-4-12 and you'll get a shock Try a defrag or check out HDTach to see if you are getting crappy transfer rates?

 

[anwar1337]

BLOOP could u run sisoft and tell me your memory readings? You have 5more mhz on your FSB and are at 1060 instead of 1050 like me. Please post up your numbers so I can compare. Im running tighter timings than you also.

 

[anwar1337]

How can memory bandwidth not affect the speed of programs opening and closing..
The fsb is what is transmitting the signal from the cpu to the hd and vice a versa. Therefore if it is being limited to half of its potential it is definitely aiding to the sluggishness.

 

[anwar1337]

Got some pretty bad scores with HDTach

 

[BLOOP!]

Here ya go:

5-5-5-15 4:5 | 1060 | 2.25v : 7531/7539


Your HD performance are kinda low. You should really consider reformatting or atleast cleaning up your drive. Do a Disk Cleanup, Defrag, and use ccleaner to delete other things.

 

[anwar1337]

kk, I guess im wrong and am just bugging out about my mem scores cause theyre kinda near yours. What the F__K is wrong with my hdd?! :[

These arent no raptors, theyre poodles.

 

[bing]

HDTach it self is not a very accurate to tell the "overall" drive's performance, although I admit that is abit slow.

Try run PCMark bench and post your ORB link here !

 

[anwar1337]

kk, will do

I also didnt add that the DAY i had to go wireless and put it in my computer feels slower, and web pages load pretty damn slow, even though im getting 1.6/1.7MB/s transfer rates from speed tests.

Anyone else feel like their computer got slower after they went wireless?

 

[Evilsizer]

kk, will do

I also didnt add that the DAY i had to go wireless and put it in my computer feels slower, and web pages load pretty damn slow, even though im getting 1.6/1.7MB/s transfer rates from speed tests.

Anyone else feel like their computer got slower after they went wireless?

i have many computers running wireless nic's. they feel the same when surfing and downloading. only a few online games feel a tad difference due to the encoder/decoders of wireless. if i would i would still be running at 100mbits to the router.