Hello!
I just got a "new" computer (I say new because it is a hand-me-down) from my fiancé and It is so SLOW on boot up and opening programs for the first time (each time it is started up)
It is an AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual 4600+
2.41 GHz, 2GB Ram
The mother board is MSI K9A Platinum
I just formatted so there really isn't anything installed yet. Msconfig doesn't show anything booting up that shouldn't to slow it down, and the Bios has been reset to optiom setting. The computer acts like it can't do more then one thing at a time. Once a program loads it runs great, but loading the program takes forever.
My father came over to look at it and he can't find anything wrong. He went to PC pitstop and the computer test in the top 25% so we have no clue what is going on! Anything would be helpful!
It has always been a little slow, mostly with boot up, but never this extreme with opening programs. When Windows Xp home SP3 first opens, on my old computer I could instant click Firefox and it would load instantly. On this computer (same Windows specs) but it will NOT open the program until everything is fully loaded in about 31/2 mins later sometimes up to 5mins.
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1 cod1gamer_23 // May 13, 2008
alot of times, a slow hard drive can actually slow down a computer's performance (hard drives are both rated by how much information they can store GB and how fast they can operate) replacing a slower hard drive in a computer with a newer drive that runs or spins at 7200rpm or greater can yield better overall system performance
2 donyute13 // May 13, 2008
Cod has it right.
Startup speed mainly has to do with the hard drive speed. The fastest 7200RPM drive is the Samsung spinpoint….if you're interested. If that's too slow, you can always pop for a 10,000RPM or 15,000RPM drive.
As far as frequently used programs opening quickly, that has alot to do with the amount of cache you have on both the processor and hard drive.
Intel equivalent processors generally have roughly 4x the cache as an AMD chip…..depending on the chip.
Also if you're using, say, an 8MB cache hard drive. That's kinda small. So your processor is usually forced to access the hard drive instead of taking it directly from the cache (this slows down program load times).
3 hemppy // May 13, 2008
hi cindy, everybody likes eye candy and that is where a lot of power can be lost so lets try this it is cool. hit start>settings>control panel and hit display you will find resolutions that is how big everything is set your resolutions to 1280×1024 hit apply. then go to your desktop see how small everything is, hit tools and zoom and set your homepage to fit your screen and save. then go back to display and set your icon to the size you want them. then go to system icon and set dep to large. what you have done is set your system for top performance and your system score is now 5.0. but remember one thing 2.41GHz is a small processer and it will be a little slower than a faster machine but what it is doing is thinking or processing what order you gave it. your ram is memory and your dual 4600+ is good i am sure you will notice a diferience hope i was helpful good luck.
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