yeah so a mate of mine just upgraded his system to the following:
-Athlon X2-4800+ dual core
-7900GTX(evga i think)
-2gb ram
-ASUS A8n SLI 32 board

Heats are lowand he apparently pulls 6200 3dmarks in 06 oc'd/ XD/ but in windows standard navigation can take up to 2 seconds to change directories. He HAS reinstalled windows and the same thing is happening...so there's something wrong there. I said it would be his IDE hdd but its his old one and worked perfectly on his old system. Plus, his cpu spikes all over the place when this is happening... but with an X2-4800+....(confused fayce). Any help would be appreciated.


Thnx in advance,
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Tell him to right click the, My Computer Icon - properties - advanced - performance tab, settings - adjust for best performance.
He can tick, use visual style on windows and buttons, show tranlucent section rectangle, use common tasks in folders, if he wishes.

See how this speeds up windows.

You also might want to check the IDE drivers, Nvidia tends to have a problem with them, but if its the standard drivers from Microsoft, you might change to the Nvidia drivers or vise vesra. I had that problem on my A8N-E, so this could be a possible solution. I am using the Nvidia drivers, so its working fine now. If either of you have a sata drive, use that on the machine to check if it's IDE thats the problem......

yeah, it's probly some IDE issue... you can also check in device manager in which mode IDE is working, if PIO or UDMA4 or 5 or whatever

you can also check bios for IDE settings

If he doesn´t buy 2x SATA2 harddrives and put them into RAID0 (Striped), then all the stuff he just bought would feel much slower... Everything is loaded from the harddrive!!! It´s stupid not to buy a new harddrive if you upgrade your computer.

hmmmm actually, there's not much difference in performance from a SATA2 and IDE drive... they perform pretty much the same way. SATA has some theoretical advantages, obviously, but technically you dont see much difference. Now, if he's using some udma2 or pio drive, that's another story... but the fact of he's using an IDE drive does not means it has poor performance

hmmmm actually, there's not much difference in performance from a SATA2 and IDE drive... they perform pretty much the same way. SATA has some theoretical advantages, obviously, but technically you dont see much difference. Now, if he's using some udma2 or pio drive, that's another story... but the fact of he's using an IDE drive does not means it has poor performance

Yes but my meaning was that he would get 2X SATA2 and put them into RAID0. Then he would have seen a difference!

in opening menu's in windows, ye right. maybe in reading files of 200MB up otherwise i doubt it.

I got the Asus A8N32-SLI with an X2-4400.

My performance in windows sucked......then I noticed that the Asus AiBooster application was not showing correct numbers, or it was jumping all over the place.

So I went into the bios, set the numbers manuall.....suddenly AiBooster was not fluctuating anymore.

It was almost as if AiBooster was automatically changing setttings.

At one point it showed my X2-4400 running at 800Mhz.......

I have had no issues since then, and I never run AiBooster anymore. I think there must be something odd about that application.

You know that with cool & quiet enabled and installed it will drop to about 800MHz when you don´t use the CPU...

You know that with cool & quiet enabled and installed it will drop to about 800MHz when you don´t use the CPU...


That was the first thing I thought, that cool 'n quiet was on and that was causing the cycle-down. But the bios said it was not enabled. As soon as I went to the bios and basically typed over the default 11x220 settings, and "saved" it, upon reboot it seemed to "lock-it-in".

Not sure what was going on there.