AMD 3.4ghz new built pc running slow

[Steel12]

So it is the hard drive then? :O

[DarkTower87]

Originally Posted by Steel12

So it is the hard drive then? :O

Programs opening slow, slow start up, general system sluggishness? Probably. Your video card artifacting? No. But as you said in your other thread your replacing the card.

[nhan4]

click on health and error scan on HDtune too.

Hey, if it isnt harddrive, return it too!

[Steel12]

Can't return the HDD it's from my older factory PC. I ran a quick scan for the health, it all came out green


Alright cool, thank you very much I'll make another thread later when I am ready to purchase a new HDD.
I really hope my cpu isn't giving me any problems...

You guys are all seriously great, I've tried a bunch of forums, this is the best honestly

[Sparkey247]

yeah it looks like your HDD, if you didn't opay much for the 965 x4 hold onto it if your your mobo supports it dumb a B.D. in there later on.

personally i always swore by Western Digital HDD's, just about every seagate i ever owned went the way of the dodo on me and was replaced by a W.D. drive.

if your tight on the dough look at new egg they have some decent deals on refurb HDD's i have used them in the past for storage drives and even my first one i bought (5 years or so ago is still ticking today) but i have also had some fail. so its hit or miss.

really i think you pick up T.B. drives fairly cheap which should be alot better than what you have eggy has a good selection. personally with being your main drive i would go new but it depends on what you can fork over.

sheer speed, if your mobo has sata 3 they make some scorching SSD drives that are insanely fast even the sata 2 version are stupid fast

[Steel12]

I wish I could get one of those 1200 dollar SSDs D:

Max I want to spend is 100 on the HDD

[DarkTower87]

2 of these in RAID 0 would be good.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148701

1 of these would be nice
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148701

Additional Comment:

If you can swing it...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136296

[Steel12]

Originally Posted by DarkTower87

2 of these in RAID 0 would be good.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148701

1 of these would be nice
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148701

You accidently posted two of the same things,
I'm looking for 750gb plus though

and for the third link you posted, 150gb of storage?!

[nhan4]

Originally Posted by Steel12

I wish I could get one of those 1200 dollar SSDs D:

Max I want to spend is 100 on the HDD

When you hit 50 posts, go check the for sale section, I think someone was selling WD blacks for 40 shipped. Thats a very good HD if not the best for mechanical drives.

[DarkTower87]

Originally Posted by Steel12

You accidently posted two of the same things,
I'm looking for 750gb plus though

and for the third link you posted, 150gb of storage?!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136921
Sorry.

Additional Comment:

The 150GB of Storage is almost as fast as some SSD's. You could use that as your main drive with most of your programs installed on it and other games and programs installed on your slower current HDD.

[nhan4]

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digita...1735605&sr=8-3

1.5 tb for 78 bucks, cant beat that

1.5 tb, 64MB cache

[Steel12]

Originally Posted by DarkTower87

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136921
Sorry.

Additional Comment:

The 150GB of Storage is almost as fast as some SSD's. You could use that as your main drive with most of your programs installed on it and other games and programs installed on your slower current HDD.

Knowing my luck, everything would go wrong that could go wrong with that plan O:

Originally Posted by nhan4

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digita...1735605&sr=8-3

1.5 tb for 78 bucks, cant beat that

1.5 tb, 64MB cache

What's the catch?!

[Sparkey247]

Originally Posted by nhan4

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digita...1735605&sr=8-3

1.5 tb for 78 bucks, cant beat that

1.5 tb, 64MB cache

+1

there is no catch spinning drives are coming down especially since both companies are releasing 3 tb drives

[Steel12]

It gets 3gb/s this one gets 6gb/s a little less storage, but still enough

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digita...p_ob_e_title_1

[Sparkey247]

Originally Posted by Steel12

It gets 3gb/s this one gets 6gb/s a little less storage, but still enough

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digita...p_ob_e_title_1

if you got a sata 3 controller on board go with this if you only have sata 2 controllers your only going to get sata 2 speeds

[nhan4]

Originally Posted by Steel12

It gets 3gb/s this one gets 6gb/s a little less storage, but still enough

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digita...p_ob_e_title_1

Mechanical drives can't even fully utilize sata 3gb let alone sata 6gb

[maxgull]

That HDD isnt the whole problem, as a matter of fact, it isnt that bad, have you installed all of the motherboard drivers? True that the drive could be faster.

Is this a fresh install of windows? It looks to me that there is something accessing the drive.What does the Task manager show for CPU Useage?

[nhan4]

Heres a comparison of yours versus mine.

[maxgull]

I would be willing to bet that there is something else going on with his setup, his drive #s arent great, but they will NOT make a program take 87 minutes to install....

Originally Posted by nhan4

Heres a comparison of yours versus mine.

[maxgull]

Here you go...