New to AMD Processor and not impressed ,what could be wrong with this setup??

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I recently upgraded my system and decided to try out a Amd processor
instead of the Intel processor.

I will show you what is in my system below ,, but i upgraded from a
Celeron 1.7 processor and i find that this system is now much slower
since upgrading to the AMD. I use this system mainly for d/ling , movies
, music and decoding them for burning ,,nothing to do with gaming or
programming or the such. But trying to multitask slows the systme to a
crawl ,,, i used to be able to d/l , decode and even burn ,,, plus have
my email and other apps open and not have to much lag ,,now if i have a
virus scan and try to d/l or decode something plus email , it pretty well
slows to a stop.

Any suggestions???

Operating System System Model
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600)

Processor
2.00 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache

Board: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8VSEDX Rev 2.00
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 1007.003 06/17/2005

Drives c,d
282.00 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
128.08 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4120B [CD-ROM drive]
MITSUMI CR-48XGTE [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

512 Megabytes Installed Memory



RADEON 9100 SERIES [Display adapter]
Default Monitor
Samsung SyncMaster [Monitor] (17.1"vis, s/n H9NXA29333, October 2004)


Thanks Gord
 
I recently upgraded my system and decided to try out a Amd processor
instead of the Intel processor.

I will show you what is in my system below ,, but i upgraded from a
Celeron 1.7 processor and i find that this system is now much slower
since upgrading to the AMD. I use this system mainly for d/ling , movies
, music and decoding them for burning ,,nothing to do with gaming or
programming or the such. But trying to multitask slows the systme to a
crawl ,,, i used to be able to d/l , decode and even burn ,,, plus have
my email and other apps open and not have to much lag ,,now if i have a
virus scan and try to d/l or decode something plus email , it pretty well
slows to a stop.

Any suggestions???

Operating System System Model
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600)

Processor
2.00 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache

Board: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8VSEDX Rev 2.00
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 1007.003 06/17/2005

Drives c,d
282.00 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
128.08 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4120B [CD-ROM drive]
MITSUMI CR-48XGTE [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

512 Megabytes Installed Memory



RADEON 9100 SERIES [Display adapter]
Default Monitor
Samsung SyncMaster [Monitor] (17.1"vis, s/n H9NXA29333, October 2004)


Thanks Gord
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I bet you are running in a low power mode. I don't know Windoze very well
so I can't tell you the exact name of the control panel, but there is a
power mode control panel which will allow you to choose various settings.
Select desktop and that should put the processor in a fast mode. You might
have to go into your BIOS and turn Cool and Quiet on but chances are all
you have to do change the control panel setting. The clock on the A64 can
be changed over a wide range. On your CPU the lowest setting is probably
800MHz, the high setting is 2GHz. At 800MHz it runs very cool and the
performance is still adequate for most tasks, at 2GHz it should feel very
quick.
 
I recently upgraded my system and decided to try out a Amd processor
instead of the Intel processor.

I will show you what is in my system below ,, but i upgraded from a
Celeron 1.7 processor and i find that this system is now much slower
since upgrading to the AMD. I use this system mainly for d/ling , movies
, music and decoding them for burning ,,nothing to do with gaming or
programming or the such. But trying to multitask slows the systme to a
crawl ,,, i used to be able to d/l , decode and even burn ,,, plus have
my email and other apps open and not have to much lag ,,now if i have a
virus scan and try to d/l or decode something plus email , it pretty well
slows to a stop.

Any suggestions???

Operating System System Model
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600)

Processor
2.00 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache

Board: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8VSEDX Rev 2.00
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 1007.003 06/17/2005

Drives c,d
282.00 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
128.08 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4120B [CD-ROM drive]
MITSUMI CR-48XGTE [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

512 Megabytes Installed Memory



RADEON 9100 SERIES [Display adapter]
Default Monitor
Samsung SyncMaster [Monitor] (17.1"vis, s/n H9NXA29333, October 2004)


Thanks Gord
Click to expand...

I bet you are running in a low power mode. I don't know Windoze very well
so I can't tell you the exact name of the control panel, but there is a
power mode control panel which will allow you to choose various settings.
Select desktop and that should put the processor in a fast mode. You might
have to go into your BIOS and turn Cool and Quiet on but chances are all
you have to do change the control panel setting. The clock on the A64 can
be changed over a wide range. On your CPU the lowest setting is probably
800MHz, the high setting is 2GHz. At 800MHz it runs very cool and the
performance is still adequate for most tasks, at 2GHz it should feel very
quick.
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What you are talking about are settings in the BIOS.
 
I recently upgraded my system and decided to try out a Amd processor
instead of the Intel processor.

I will show you what is in my system below ,, but i upgraded from a
Celeron 1.7 processor and i find that this system is now much slower
since upgrading to the AMD. I use this system mainly for d/ling , movies
, music and decoding them for burning ,,nothing to do with gaming or
programming or the such. But trying to multitask slows the systme to a
crawl ,,, i used to be able to d/l , decode and even burn ,,, plus have
my email and other apps open and not have to much lag ,,now if i have a
virus scan and try to d/l or decode something plus email , it pretty well
slows to a stop.

Any suggestions???
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This looks so much like an Intel troll message, I hesitate to respond.
Will you really have use believe that you think the A64 Probably 3000+ or
3200+ which kills 3GHz P4's is slow compared to a 1700MHz Celeron, which
the cheapest old Duron 1600 Just wipes the floor with. The only thing I
can think of is that you have something grossly misconfigured. Did you
lock the CPU at the slowest CnQ setting (800MHz probably)? Did you do a
repair or new install of Windows XP? Are your drives and other IO items
set up properly? If you are indeed having these problems I'd suggest
double checking all drivers and testing the speed of your cpu, disk, etc.
 
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