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I've noticed a problem with my PC which is starting to annoy. It feels very
sluggish for certain tasks, yet seems fine for processor only tasks and
benchmarks. I'm hoping it's just a simple to fix problem, maybe the
harddrive.
Anway, I've googled for harddrive issues and I've checked DMA, checked for
spyware, defraged and made sure no unwanted processes are running with
'msconfig'. Still no joy (DMA is listed as "DMA if available" by the way)
I've downloaded and run HD Tach and to my very little knowledge it looks
very bad!
My Burst speed is 30.5 while the next one listed in the HD Tach benchmark,
ATA UltraDMA 6 is ~130MB/s
Seems to be a vast difference between the two? Is this expected from my
system, or should it be closer?
The other results were
CPU utilization 2%
Random Access 15.9ms
Average read 28.0MB/s
My PC
WIndows XP pro
AMD64 3000 764pin
MSI K8N neo (nForce3 250)
1GB PC3200
Western Digital 160GB IDE
Thanks
sluggish for certain tasks, yet seems fine for processor only tasks and
benchmarks. I'm hoping it's just a simple to fix problem, maybe the
harddrive.
Anway, I've googled for harddrive issues and I've checked DMA, checked for
spyware, defraged and made sure no unwanted processes are running with
'msconfig'. Still no joy (DMA is listed as "DMA if available" by the way)
I've downloaded and run HD Tach and to my very little knowledge it looks
very bad!
My Burst speed is 30.5 while the next one listed in the HD Tach benchmark,
ATA UltraDMA 6 is ~130MB/s
Seems to be a vast difference between the two? Is this expected from my
system, or should it be closer?
The other results were
CPU utilization 2%
Random Access 15.9ms
Average read 28.0MB/s
My PC
WIndows XP pro
AMD64 3000 764pin
MSI K8N neo (nForce3 250)
1GB PC3200
Western Digital 160GB IDE
Thanks