kevvyb
New Member
Hi
Am just getting around to tackling this having upgraded my old machine from an Athlon XP 3200 (2.2GHz) and an Intel i7 2.66GHz overclocked to 3.2GHz.
There is no doubting that this processor runs stuff like Photoshop CS2 and Lightroom etc much faster, just how they should be. My old Athlon used to struggle.
However, with everyday computing tasks there can be noticable lag. Examples are opening an excel spreadsheet, opening Outlook, add/remove programs population, applying changes to display settings etc. All usually just okay but not quite as instant as my old Athlon. There can be processing delays with basic tasks that just were not present with the Athlon. Task manager never really shows much activity. In fact I have never seen any core above 17% with the i7. These issues are always worse at start up when I can see disk activity but I am not sure what is going on.
I have been experimenting with Windows Desktop search which was certainly implicated. I have uninstalled this. I have also changed the settings on my backup application (Mirror folder) so that it does not run whilst the machine is starting up. These have definitely improved the situation but I still don't see much if nay improvement with these basic tasks.
Maybe I am just running into a hard disk bottleneck....?
Can anyone shed any light for me on what I am seeing?
Rest of the set up is as follows:
Case: Coolermaster Cosmos S
PSU: Corsair HX1000w
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5R
Processor: Intel i7 2.66GHz o/c 3.6GHz
Cooling: Zalman CNPS 9700 LED
RAM: 3GB Corsair PC10600 1333Mhz DDR3
Hard Drives: Samsung F1 1TB x2
Graphics: 1GB nVidia GTX 280
Sound Card: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Audio 7.1
Optical: LG / Pioneer 116
Monitor: NEC 2470WNX
Operating System: XP Home and Pro
Am just getting around to tackling this having upgraded my old machine from an Athlon XP 3200 (2.2GHz) and an Intel i7 2.66GHz overclocked to 3.2GHz.
There is no doubting that this processor runs stuff like Photoshop CS2 and Lightroom etc much faster, just how they should be. My old Athlon used to struggle.
However, with everyday computing tasks there can be noticable lag. Examples are opening an excel spreadsheet, opening Outlook, add/remove programs population, applying changes to display settings etc. All usually just okay but not quite as instant as my old Athlon. There can be processing delays with basic tasks that just were not present with the Athlon. Task manager never really shows much activity. In fact I have never seen any core above 17% with the i7. These issues are always worse at start up when I can see disk activity but I am not sure what is going on.
I have been experimenting with Windows Desktop search which was certainly implicated. I have uninstalled this. I have also changed the settings on my backup application (Mirror folder) so that it does not run whilst the machine is starting up. These have definitely improved the situation but I still don't see much if nay improvement with these basic tasks.
Maybe I am just running into a hard disk bottleneck....?
Can anyone shed any light for me on what I am seeing?
Rest of the set up is as follows:
Case: Coolermaster Cosmos S
PSU: Corsair HX1000w
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5R
Processor: Intel i7 2.66GHz o/c 3.6GHz
Cooling: Zalman CNPS 9700 LED
RAM: 3GB Corsair PC10600 1333Mhz DDR3
Hard Drives: Samsung F1 1TB x2
Graphics: 1GB nVidia GTX 280
Sound Card: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Audio 7.1
Optical: LG / Pioneer 116
Monitor: NEC 2470WNX
Operating System: XP Home and Pro
