Bad Performance in Windows?

TwistedFury · Apr 28, 2014

My parents have a PC with an A6-5200 and integrated graphics and 6GB of DDR3, my PC has an Athlon II X4 with a GTX 650 and 6GB of DDR3, but their performance in regular tasks is much faster than mine, but gaming is faster than me of course, we are both running Windows 8, is the Athlon II X4 not good for Windows 8? Would the performance be better in Windows 7?

rgd1101 · Apr 28, 2014

which athlon II x4?

and are you comparing the same resolution?

TwistedFury · Apr 28, 2014

The Athlon II X4 630, theirs is clocked at 2.2GHz and mine is 2.8
They have a 1680 x 1050 resolution, mine is 1440 x 800 or something, it's the same aspect ratio though.

rgd1101 · Apr 28, 2014

don't see why that is happening, what regular task are you referring to?

TwistedFury · Apr 28, 2014

Google chrome gets a lot of lag, regular things like searching files is very slow unlike theirs, one thing that I might think is the cause is I am using RAID with 1 desktop hard drive and 1 Laptop hard drive, is that the problem?

rgd1101 · Apr 28, 2014

yeah a slow laptop hdd is going to slow down your raid 1 setup, sound like it make it even worst then without raid 1

Samat · Apr 28, 2014

rgd1101 :

Like he said. It's always best to run any raid system with identical drives for performance and stability.

TwistedFury · Apr 28, 2014

So if I unplug the drive, and that would mean reinstalling Windows because I am on Raid 0, it should ramp up the performance by quite a bit?

rgd1101 · Apr 28, 2014

raid 0, mean reinstall os, it just gonna go back to the performance it should have been.

TwistedFury · Apr 28, 2014

Yes, but if I do that, and make it on my single desktop drive without the laptop drive, the performance shouldn't be as bad as it is now? I already reinstalled it once thinking it'd fix it.

TwistedFury · Apr 28, 2014

Hello?

Loganrmcclellan · Apr 28, 2014

I can tell you for sure that a heterogeneous RAID 0 array will be substantially slower than a homogeneous RAID 0 array. Access times will be WAY worse with a heterogeneous setup, and read/write transfer rates will be slower as well. However I'm unsure whether your performance will improve by going to a single disk or JBOD set up instead of your current heterogeneous RAID. If your RAID drives are different enough, I suppose it is possible you could see better performance by going to a single drive.

TwistedFury · Apr 28, 2014

I have a Hitachi Deskstar as 1 and a WD Scorpio Blue as the second which is the laptop drive.

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