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Win 7 - Core i7 but HD thrashing?
Hi All,
Weird situation and wondered what advice people might have. I recently upgraded this whole system to one that should scream - Core i7 920, 6 GB triple channel RAM, Nvidia GTS 250 and Gigabyte UD-3R m'board.
Anyway, it was running great but now, if I do ANY sort of large copy or use a prog that accesses the hard drive heavily, the entire system becomes near unusuable. I.e. say I'm copying a 2GB file - during that time, programs barely load, everything is very laggy and its hard to use anything.
The harddrive is fairly new - no more than a year old, Samsung HD103UJ (1TB 7200 RPM 32MB) so it shouldn't be so slow as to stop other stuff to such a degree.
Any ideas? Would appreciate any help!
Cheers
Andrew