Asus M5A88-M With AMD FX4100 Bad Performance

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1Vimal

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Hi Guys,
My System Detail
Board- Asus M5A88-m
Processor- AMD FX4100
RAM- Slot1- 4 GB DDR3 Corsair CMX4GX3M1A1600C11
Slot2- 4 GB DDR3 Corsair CMX4GX3M1A1600C11
Slot3- 4 GB DDR3 Transcend JM1333KLN-4G
Slot4- 4 GB DDR3 ADATA
Hard Disk- Drive1 - WDC WD5000AAKX-001CA0 (465 GB)
Drive2 - Hitachi HDS721010CLA630 (931 GB)
Drive3 - Hitachi HDS721010KLA330 (931 GB)
SMPS- Cooler Master 650 Watt
OS- Windows 10 64 bit Enterprise Edition
Softwares- Bitdefender total security
Ms Office 2016
VLC
Winamp
Firefox
Rmprep
Drivers
No high graphics softwares.

Now the problem is that it gives slow performance during copying hard disk to hard disk (Max 60 mbps) and hard disk to USB (max 6.5 mbps usb 2.0 and max 18 mbps usb 3.0). Some programmes also start slowly. on other hand my other system with dual core and g31 chipset mother board gives writing speed max 22 mbps on usb 2.0 with only 4 gb DDR2 RAM.
Please guide me how to solve the problem.
 
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The bottleneck isn't necessarily the FX4100, you can check it by how many processes are running or if all 4 cores are max'd out when copying data. As others mentioned check for memory hogs, and run Memtest86+. If you can, get a matched set of two 8GB ram sticks 1333 or 1600 and replace the RAM, install them in slot 1 & 3, or 2 & 4 - that board will handle 32GB RAM, the OEM specs say 16 is max, but I've been running 4x8GB G Skill 1600 RAM on my M5A88-M for about 2yrs now with all memory available/useable. You might need to replace the sata cables with newer - those too can bottleneck. Check to see what your SATA port speeds are set to. Are your drives set to AHCI?
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Check to make sure that your HDDs are not being over-utlised by a background program.

Open task manager and navigate to to the Performance tab. Under Disk 0,1 and 2, do you notice high utilisation percentages while the computer is not performing any tasks?

Another thing to check would be to run MEMTEST on the RAM, as I see you have three different brands of RAM, with the Transcend being 267MHz slower than the Corsair RAM. Your motherboard will be turning down the clock speed of the RAM to the frequency of the slowest RAM stick, but incompatible timings may still cause issues.

If this does not solve the problem, use a SMART checking tool to check the health of your Hard Drives. One or more may be on its way out.
 
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1Vimal

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Thank You Grantmacintosh1.
I checked the hdd while running only the firefox and it showed me 0% to 8% maximum. So I think no issues with utilization. But I think it has RAM Conflict. I will check it removing Transcend RAM.
 
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The bottleneck isn't necessarily the FX4100, you can check it by how many processes are running or if all 4 cores are max'd out when copying data. As others mentioned check for memory hogs, and run Memtest86+. If you can, get a matched set of two 8GB ram sticks 1333 or 1600 and replace the RAM, install them in slot 1 & 3, or 2 & 4 - that board will handle 32GB RAM, the OEM specs say 16 is max, but I've been running 4x8GB G Skill 1600 RAM on my M5A88-M for about 2yrs now with all memory available/useable. You might need to replace the sata cables with newer - those too can bottleneck. Check to see what your SATA port speeds are set to. Are your drives set to AHCI?
 
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