Re: New Build(First time Builder) goes EXTREMELY SLOW
- From: Paul <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:09:53 -0500
zyzybalubah1 wrote:
So I made my first build and its extremely slow. I wanted it mainly for
general browsing, movie watching and some dvd burning(No pc gaming at
all) It takes about
3 minutes to load to the desktop. It goes slower than my mothers old
gateway from 2002(which was :pfff: even back then) Here are the
specs....
Rosewill R6A34-BK 0.8mm SECC 120mm Fan ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000 Brisbane 2.6GHz Socket AM2 65W Dual-Core
Processor Model ADO5000DOBOX
ASUS M2A-VM AM2 AMD 690G Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording
Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
LG 22X DVD±R DVD Burner Black SATA Model GH22NS30
Rosewill RV350 350W ATX 1.3 Power Supply
Kingston 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Dual
Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model
And I thought it was maybe the memory and I bought a Kingston®
KVR667D2/1GR DDR2 Memory Upgrade For Desktop Computers, 2GB today, threw
it in, but still slow as yesterday. My onboard sound skips. Which
component did I go wrong?? Did I go wrong on the set up?
Disable Cool N' Quiet. The processor should run at full speed.
Verify running properties of the hardware with CPUZ from cpuid.com .
Check for disk drives in PIO mode instead of DMA mode.
Using the Device Manager, check the Computer entry. When you
click the (+), it should read "ACPI Multiprocessor". The
Task Manager (control-alt-delete) should have two graphs,
one for each core.
It is unlikely to be a RAM problem, because even if
mis-adjusted, RAM is pretty fast.
My guess would be it is disk related. You can use HDTune V2.55
(hdtune.com) and its Info tab, to check the interface speed.
Benchmarking the disk, will also demonstrate whether performance is
limited by some issue. My SATA drive can manage somewhere around 90MB/sec
sustained, near the start of the disk. HDtune claims it is in
UDMA Mode 6 UltraATA 133. The actual hardware capability is faster
than that. Speed is actually limited by the read rate at the
media itself.
Also, when you're in the BIOS, check the CPU temperature
value. It should be below 65C, and preferable well below
that figure. Your 65W processor should be relatively easy
to cool.
If video updates are slow, you haven't installed the video
driver yet.
Paul
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