New Build running slow

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ieatcrayonzs

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I just assembled a new build:

AMD FX6300
AMD A780-MB motherboard
8g ddr-3 1600 stick
1tb seagate barracuda (Os is running off this)
refurbished 4tb harddrive off ebay, a white label 4TB 3.5" 7200 WL4000GSA6472E
AMD Radeon HD 6670 1GB GDDR3
Fresh windows 8.1 install

I assembled everything with no problem. Both hard drives seem to be working well. The os is running fine, but the overall computer seems a bit slow to me. I was thinking that going from a dual core to a 6 core, and from 4g of ram to 8, that I would have way more speed. I would say it's actually slower than my old computer. I installed the motherboard drivers (although I think it was just sound) and the video card drivers. Everything else is showing up to date in hardware management. The only things I've installed are firefox and mutorrent. There is no virus software, nothing. Once I'm on a page it's fine, but opening firefox or opening new tabs is slow and sometimes I get "not responding" for a moment before it will let me click anything. That's with only firefox running and no other programs. (mutorrent isn't on in the background). Anything flash, or facebook seems to be the worst.

My old computer:
-AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ 3.01 GHz
-ECS MCP61PM-AM DUAL CORE AM2
-4g of RAM
-Windows 7
-1tb seagate Hard drive (moved to the new build)
-NVIDIA GeForce 96000 GT (went out and installed: AMD Radeon HD 6670 1GB GDDR3 - transferred to the new build)
 
I'd make sure everything is installed via Windows Update. You probably missed a few drivers that should auto install through that service. Also a bunch of security related patches before you zoom through the depths of the Internet more profusely.
 
Can you post the exact model number of the motherboard you have? The number you listed doesn't come up on a search. We need to verify that motherboard supports the processor.
 
When I first installed the os I checked for updates and nothing came up (which I thought was weird). I just ran it again and 77 came up. I installed them all, but it isn't running any faster. I ran window's error checks on both HD's and no errors came back. I'm doing a defrag and "optimize" on the drives now.

Here is the motherboard: http://portatech.com/products/product.cshtml?id=70311&o=74820

I bought them together as a combo, so I'm pretty sure they are compatable.
 
Windows is sluggish outta the box until it's totally updated normally. You might have several batches of updates that may have 50 or more in them each. Also your video card choice is not really a gaming card, if that's what you're after.
 
I'm not positive but thats an AM3 socket and you have an AM3+ processor, you can't do that. Plus the fact that I can't find any technical details on that board.

I would have gotten a gigabyte board.
 
I don't game anymore, so I'm not really worried about the video card as long as it will do basic things like stream movies. If one is am3 and one is am3+, would the motherboard and cpu be sold as a set if they aren't compatible?
 
Reading over your post again and you're only talking about issues with Firefox. Try Chrome or IE (try Chrome first! :P )
 
So are you saying you think they sold me a combo that wasn't fully compatible? I still have my old Mb and cpu :/

I installed chrome and it still seems laggy to me. Not terrible, but not great. I would still say slower than my old build. I pulled up the task manager and just started opening everything I could, media player, spotify, chrome, firefox and started opening a bunch of tabs to see what would happen. The cpu never went over 58%. but even when nothing is loading/opening/playing its running at about 45%
 
Something called windows driver foundation is taking up consistently about 30% everything else is minute. It never comes close to 100% though, so I'm not sure where the lag is coming from.
 
The model of the motherboard will be stamped on it somewhere either near the pci slots or memory slots. Can you verify what is stamped on it? If you really have the asrock board then the model number is stamped between the Pci express video card slot and the pci slot.
 
Pretty sure that number corresponds with the board. Does your board have the same number listed I circled in red in the following image?

 
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