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I have a problem with hard drive performance on this computer. My new computer takes AGES to load games such as cs:source and bf2. My old computer done it in literally half the time. My new rig is as follows:

Amd Athlon64 3200+ (OC'd to 2400Mhz)
Akasa Evo-33 Cooler
MSI K8N Neo2 (1.B Bios)
1Gb Corsair XMS3200C2PT (2-3-2-7) (OC'd)
Windows XP Pro SP2
Galaxy Geforce 6800GT OC
160GB Maxtor DiamondMax9 SATA (System is on here in SATA port 3)
160Gb Maxtor IDE (used for storing mp3s etc)
Xaser-III Tower

My old computer used the same tower, same hard-drives (although obviously reformatted before installing for the new system), same video card. The differences were it had a pentium 4 2.6c with 1gb of ram (2x256 OCZ PC4000 gold & 2x256 Geil PC4400 Ultra). That PC was overclocked to about 3200Mhz.

As I say, my old system would load these games in literally half the time. Hard drive performance has been bad ever since I got the new motherboard, ram and processor. It was bad as soon as the system was put together and is bad now (even after defrags). I am currently using the nforce3 5.11 chipset drivers.

Does anyone have a clue why the system drive would be running slowly?