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re: Windows processing speed revisited... Sunday, November 4, 2007 at 8:09 am Posted by jbmcmillan (672 messages posted) You should have just clarified your other post rather than start a new one.Download and run Orthos stress test and see if your quad gets all 4 cores 100% usage.You will have to copy it so you have 2 folders with orthos in it and run 2 instances to use all 4 cores as it only uses 2 per instance.I know it says for XP but it works in Vista. http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=200 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows processing speed revisited... Thursday, November 15, 2007 at 3:02 am Posted by skydaemon (1 messages posted) I guess there's a general answer for this. If your cpu is only at say 1%, it may well mean that cpu speed isn't your bottleneck. There are lots of things that can be a bottleneck for speed besides cpu. Your applications might be waiting for some task which is not cpu intensive to complete. As an example, disk access/io speed, networking speeds, whether it's loading a huge amount of memory (it only allocates memory so fast you know, if you're loading gigabytes into memory or something it's going to sit there a while), whether you're caching memory to disk because you don't have enough ram, or stuff like that. All of these sorts of things can slow you down. There are various solutions depending what is wrong, some of which have hardware solutions. If you are doing a lot of disk io, you can buy hard drives with faster rpm speeds. If you're caching memory to disk, you can put in more ram. If you don't have enough temporary space on your drive you can delete some files and make room. As a starting point, I'd suggest loading task manager, adding extra columns to display more stats like io etc, and just watching your applications to see what kind of numbers are moving. The goal is to find out what is pinned or heavily used, disk io, memory loading, cpu, whatever. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum