Bingo. You can have the faster PC on the planet and still be just as fast at downloading as the the next door neighbors $500 PC.

Internet speed depends on you provider and the host's speed you are downloading from. If you're downloading torrents/bitcomet, those are always slow cause you're downloading off of people's PC's, not severs.

 

if its just internet problems, then itsmost likelyISP problem....but....

If you only have one hard drive in the system, and your running multiple programs, then adding downloads it can slow your system down. The more things running and downloading at the same time, means the hard drive is all over the place reading and writing data. That in turn means the computer has to wait for the drive to do one thing before it can run something else. While yes, most programs run in RAM once loaded, they will still need to access the hard drive for data files, cache, incremental saves and such.

Also, if your running windows and you havent had to reinstall within a year, that will slow things down. Windows leave junk all over the place and slows itself down after time. That and all the remnants of junk you have installed, then uninstalled slow things down.

So here are some basic options to think about.

1. Get a data drive. Install all your programs on the system drive C, and store data on the data drive D, also set all downloads to go to drive D. I have 5 hard drives on my PC, all for different types of data and incoming stuff.

2. If your going to get a data drive, might as well reinstall windows to help things speed up.

3. If you dont want to do any of that defragment your drive....and I dont mean windows defrag, that one will report 100% defrag and it will be lying. The best one I have found is O & O defrager. It actually shows you details down to the data packs while it works. It also has options on how it defrags, in what order and such.

4. Study up and learn how to overclock. Its not just as simple as turning up the clock. You need to pay attention to overall effects and need to adjust voltages to make things work properly.

5. Research your motherboard and see if it supports any type of dual core cpu. May require a BIOS reflash.

6. download the free programs CCleaner and Spybot Search & Destroy. These will clean out abunch of leftover junk and spyware from your hard drive.

7. Go to pcpitstop.com and do the free full system test. At the end it will give results and recommendations to help speed youyr PC up.

 

Or if none of that works you could delete all your **** to speed it up...

 

Hey scruff dog. I have two hard drives, 300 & 500gig.

On the 300 I have 3 partitions. F: OS (30gig), W: games (134gig), X: programs (134gig)

The 500 has 3 partitions to just store movies/games/pics


Is that an ok setup? Whats the best way to set of RAID?

 

You could have spyware and crap running off of your internet connection. Download the software like Scrufdog said.


If you're gonna overclock, I'd recommend a better than stock heatsink. You can overclock witha stocker, but its not worth it since the temperature is gonna go up. Heat added to any PC equals bad performance and less life.


You have an Intel cpu so I'm sure the mulitplier is locked on the chip. So you'll just be able to up the FSB. The only problem with that is it will also increase the ram and video card fsb. Thats why I dont understand Intel is so **** about not unlocking the mulitplier like AMD does. It doesnt affect the FSB when you fart around with it.

 

Read up on overclocking and read read read. There is tons of info on the web, but everyone one is different on how they do it so look at mulitple sites. When you overclock you have a good chance you're gonna have to raise the voltage on some components. Go one increment at a time. You can easily fry something going to high.

 

Overclocking is really changing the multiplier of the frequency settings of your motherboard. This is only beneficial if you buy a mobo that has the tweaking features and will really take notice by having 800fsb speed or better because of the ability to synchronously transmit through the traces of the motherboard. Increasing the mutliplier changes the frequency speed of your processor. You can also do this with memory settings as well.

Raid setups are cool for home use but become "6 of 1 or a half dozen of the other" << a cliche' statement. Promise has an onboard raid controller that lets you run EIDE drives in a similar fashion but does not take advantage of a true raid, 0,1,5, or even 10 for that matter. And RAID is more along the lines of scalability and availability in a server environment whereas they can rebuild themselves. Home users are taking advantage of their mobo's capabilities by making large logical partitions on SATA drives.

 

It also depends on the CPU. If it doesnt have an unlocked multiplier than all you can do is increase the fsb.

 

i wouldnt bother with RAID, unless as stated your running a heavy server....

that said, multiple partitions wont help if your still working off of one physical hard drive. set your downloads to go to something on the 500g if you havent already. Your setup is a good one, maybe even an overkill, but shouldnthurt speed.

 

i think you all have the wrong idea.

if he's having problems running multible apps, my first thought is spyware.

1)

download adaware here: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/single/mi...hp?f=66h82We1r

2) install

3) update definitions

4) reboot computer IN SAFE MODE

5) run program

if that doesn't fix anything, and if your virus program is up to date in the hard drive is clean, then yeah, get some upgrades.

as far as overclocking, i wouldn't advise it unless you know EXACTLY what you're doing.

one wrong move and you could be out a hundred bucks or two.