Can even the most powerful computer lag?

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Limp Gawd
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I've been using a Pentium 4 PC for about six years now and have been thirsting have a new system. Well yesterday I just built one. It's a Q6600 with 8GB of RAM running Vista 64. Good stuff!

...well, to my slight disappointment, I'm still getting some lag.
Like when you open the control panel, it takes about a second for all the icons to appear. And there is obvious lag in Photoshop. Etc, etc

So my question is, can even the most powerful computer still show signs of lag here and there?
 
that's not processor lag. you're reading from a physical medium, the hard drive, which has a delay.
 
If you're really wanting to lessen the delay, you could try either turning off your pagefile, which would force windows to keep everything in memory, instead of swapping lesser used information out to your hard drive. This wouldn't be good if you're doing large images in Photoshop, but it works well for me when I switch between clients in an MMO I play. Another option that would cost you about $350, would be get a pair of Western Digital Raptor X 10,000 RPM hard drives. The high speed leads to lower seek times, and putting them in Raid 0 would allow you to theoretically cut the amount of time it takes for something to load in half.
 
sounds like something needs a few pairs of m-tron SSD's in RAID and some quad sli. forget the raptors, waste of money these days with the new samsungs and seagates.

to answer your question: yeah sure, when running games at 2560x and full aa/af/hdr/etc. give it a try.
 
ahh, so it's a hard drive speed issue. Seems like SSD and RAID are the answers....expensive though.

Would multiple video cards really make a difference in OS operation? I thought that was just for games
 
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