PC running slow! Need help!

Hello guys, last week I bought a new PC:
A Pentium D 820 2.8Ghz
1x 1Gb Kingston + 1x 1Gb generic Samsung
MoBo Asus P5VD2-X
Graphic by nVidia GeForce 6600
SB Audigy

The old one:
AMD64 3200+ @ 2000Mhz
2x 512 Corsair ValueSelect
MoBo MSI K8N-Neo4 Platinum
the same GeForce 6600
SB Audigy

After installed Windows and all needed drivers, when was working with Photoshop and Premiere I noticed that the new PC is running slower than my old one.

Firstly I though it was the new nVidia driver... Installed the old version and it's still slow, checked the processor clock at BIOS...

I was looking the CPU Chart, and it says that D820 is faster...
And I don't know what else can I do...


Sorry for my english, still sucks...

Thank you all for now.

One thing to note is that on single threaded applications the old system is faster since its cpu is faster. Its having 2 cpus that makes the 820 faster, but only of the app will use them both.

Photoshop is multi core ready but some filters are still single threaded so the old system may be faster.

You will notice that even a PD 950 is just about the same. as the A64 in that app when running some filters.
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_ [...] &chart=437

On Premiere, as long as its a newer version the 820 should run circles around the 3200+
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_ [...] &chart=432

In general your 820 should be faster, but some games and many photoshop filters will be slower.

There is nothing from stopping you from overclocking it

ohhh I see you have a Audigy card....are you running the creative software on that system?
If so
ctrl + alt + del
Under Processes look or CTSysVol.exe
Right click it and select Set Affinity
Only leave one cpu checked....

I have seen this cause problems on Audigy 2's but i think its the same software as the Audigy. This can cause a lag when opening windows and a delay when clicking items in explorer among other things(also makes the creative mixer load and close slow)....so if this help tell me and i will help you make that change permanent.

what board do you have? the core2 cpus(if the board is new enough) are extremely fast and use much less power.

Do you have the creative surround mixer running(i edited since i remember that causing slow downs on multi core systems)?

What windows did you install? Make sure your Samsung RAM is the same speed as the Kingston. Sometimes people like to buy newer and faster RAM but then leave in their older slower RAM not knowing that the faster RAM downclocks.

Mobo chipsets matter in the problem as well and I think that is your problem. I got a real crappy chipset once (I forget even what it was since I had it for a day but I do remember it was some VIA version). Basically I just swapped mobos and kept all of the same hardware and windows loaded and responded almost at half the speed than with my previous mobo (which was an Intel mobo). It was crazy. I was baffled since it was all on the same hardware. I actually thought that windows was freezing it was so slow. I sent that board back the next day and went with an ECS board that had an Intel chipset and it was back to normal! All that I remember is that it was indeed a VIA chipset. From your experience and mine...I think that VIA sucks big time compared to intel and nvidia (which was your MSI board) chipsets.

I bet that if you swap the mobo for an nvidia or Intel chipset mobo you will get your speed back.

Yes but if he doesn't address the chipset problem it will make the C2D a junker. I am 99% sure the VIA chipsets are the cause of your problem. You can get the fastest CPU on Earth but a crapola northbridge will choke it out.

Edit: the 1% uncertainty comes from the possibility that my chipsets were messed up to begin with and it wasn't just because they were VIA.

Yup you are right. I hated Via chipsets.

That makes me ask the question why Intel doesn't make chipsets for other CPU makers to make more money...

see ya mixed and matched your 2gigs of ram eh? not a big deal, but i would check to make sure you're in dual channel mode and not single as that would affect performance as well!

Single channel memory may also be an issue. while socket 754 AMD Athlon 64's used single channel memory. The IMC helped with performance allot.

Unless there is a typo from asus

As for the Creative mixer. Do you find it opens slow and does not go away right away when you close it? if so try the affinity thing...I did notice some other slowdowns with it too....