lawrence750
New Member
Hi all, I hope someone can help me with this, as it seems I have tried almost everything. Heres the setup:
MSI K9A2 Platinum
Akasa 850w power supply
2 x sapphire radeon 3870
4gb kingston value pc2-5300 667mhz
amd phenom 9850be
Samsung hd501lj 500GB sata
Samsung hd753lj 750gb sata
OCZ core SSD 64gb (using Promise controller for this drive - seems to be faster? the boot times using the SB600 controller is about 4 times longer!)
Maxtor stm3320820as 320GB sata.
running Vista Ultimate x64
and the problem:
The PC seems to be quite good for doing most things such as gaming, enocding videos, watching videos /music, streaming vids etc.
But when I try to install software, (normally from image files on my HD), the computer becomes really slow, and hangs when you try to do almost anything. Installing the software takes ages too, a lot longer than my friends laptop installs (the same game), and his specs are a lot lower than mine.
I would appreciate any help offered!
Thanks in advance!
MSI K9A2 Platinum
Akasa 850w power supply
2 x sapphire radeon 3870
4gb kingston value pc2-5300 667mhz
amd phenom 9850be
Samsung hd501lj 500GB sata
Samsung hd753lj 750gb sata
OCZ core SSD 64gb (using Promise controller for this drive - seems to be faster? the boot times using the SB600 controller is about 4 times longer!)
Maxtor stm3320820as 320GB sata.
running Vista Ultimate x64
and the problem:
The PC seems to be quite good for doing most things such as gaming, enocding videos, watching videos /music, streaming vids etc.
But when I try to install software, (normally from image files on my HD), the computer becomes really slow, and hangs when you try to do almost anything. Installing the software takes ages too, a lot longer than my friends laptop installs (the same game), and his specs are a lot lower than mine.
I would appreciate any help offered!
Thanks in advance!