Upgrade not going well

[chookey]

Decided to upgrade to a reasonably high spec but am disappointed with the results. It must be me at fault but not sure what to do.

I use newsgroups a lot. A 13 episode series normally downloads in around 18 minutes and decodes almost instantly whilst still downloading. Just tried 6 episodes with my new setup, downloading naturally the same but took close on 2 hours to decode!!

Browsing whilst using Grabit is extremely slow as is trying to run any other program. I've attached a screenshot of my setup.

By the way, xp pro is a temporary measure. The solid state hard drive I ordered was faulty and is being returned to Corsair. Spent a few hours trying to install an os on it.

 

[little_pob]

Don't be so hard on yourself: on this month's buyers guide Bit-Tech have mentioned there are "issues" with the X58A-UD3R rev2, but are waiting on Gigabyte to verify/fix the issue before they'll state what the problem is.

From reading the comments apparently it can be flaky with 6GB installed, but I'm not sure if that's a 3x2Gb or 6x1Gb configuration and no mention was made of OS.

IIRC, XP can go a bit weird with more than 4Gb installed... not that the 32bit edition can 'see' more than 4Gb anyway.

 

[chookey]

Cheers little pob. So bloody frustrating, my standby pc in the other room beats this setup hands down and I paid more for this processor than it cost me to build that one.

 

[chookey]

My pc is flying now:Clap:

Problem is my C:/ drive. Must be on the way out, so I have changed the preferences to download all to another drive. I am downloading from Grabit now, browsing is unaffected and files are being decoded instantly.

 

[little_pob]

Glad you're sorted.

 

[chookey]

Cheers mate. In light of my C drive being shit I decided to try my "old" setup again. It comprises a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 motherboard, core 2 duo E8200, 4GB of OCZ PC2-6400 ram and a Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD3870 512MB graphics card.
Cost a fair bit when I built it close on 4 years ago.
Popped it into a shitty case with a shitty psu and a salvaged 80GB ide hard drive. The bloody thing is working sweet as a nut and the cpu temp is only 43° using a stock cooler!!
Thankfully I had it in mind to upgrade anyway as I have spent just over £800 where I could have been back up and running just by replacing the C drive.

My mate wants to buy it from me but don't know what to charge him, half what its' worth anyway