Computer is running very slow

[Jvass]

Intel i7-950
Sapphire Radeon 6970
CM HAF 932
ASUS P6X58D-E
Windows 7
CM 120mm Heatsink
Corsair 750w
Light on 24x DVD
1 TB Western Digital
6g Corsair DDR3

It's about 2 and a half years old, but it's running like it's 5 years old. I just reinstalled Windows to see if that would help, it didnt.

Any ideas on what it could be? I do a lot of multitasking, playing a few games and listening to music and watching a movie at once.

Thanks

 

[AMD Radeon]

can you be more specific about what slow?

if you do multitasking, open simultaneous files

try get an 120GB ssd

 

[daship]

Check temps it could be throttling from getting hot.

 

[Jvass]

Thanks for the quick replies. By slow I mean I tried to transfer 20 songs from my external harddrive to my desktop, it took an hour to do 5 songs then froze, then I tried to play a song and halfway through windows media player froze.

It seemed like netflix was having trouble playing by it's self, it just kept getting choppy

All 4 CPU core temperatures are 40 degrees Celsius

 

[AMD Radeon]

oh transfer file..... sure... are you using usb 2.0 or 3.0?

and make sure you transfer it only ONE simultaneous transfer, not 2 or more copy pasting

 

[cliffro]

Thanks for the quick replies. By slow I mean I tried to transfer 20 songs from my external harddrive to my desktop, it took an hour to do 5 songs then froze, then I tried to play a song and halfway through windows media player froze.

It seemed like netflix was having trouble playing by it's self, it just kept getting choppy

All 4 CPU core temperatures are 40 degrees Celsius

If it's freezing while playing them locally, you could have a bad cable or bad drive. The cable is the quickest/cheapest option so try replacing the cable first.

 

[Jvass]

It actually seems to be running smoother now - is it possible that it's because I didn't use it for a month and then started using it?

 

[WskOsc]

1TB and above drives, especially when a couple of years old can build up a LOT of clutter.

My advice is to defrag it intensively using something like UltraDefrag.