Hello everyone! Okay, I got this new computer (HP Pavilion a200m) from a friend, and since it had 2.4GHz I decided to replace my current desktop computer (Compaq Presario 6000, 1.4Ghz) with it. Since I had done many upgrades to my current one, I swapped some of said hardware to the new one. So, the output looks like this: New Computer: 2.4GHz Intel Celeron 512MB RAM (listed as 504? ?) 64MB video (built-in)80GB + 40GB hard drives Old Computer: 1.4GHz AMD Athlon XP 1600+ 256MB RAM 64MB video (ATI card on PCI slot) 40GB + 15GB hard drives I did this because I do a lot of video conversion (stupid Sony doesn't want us to watch AVIs on their PS3 and PSP systems... grr) so I needed something faster. Well, on the old one (before any hw swapping), it took 40 minutes to convert a ~20 minute file. On the new one (AFTER all of the hw swapping), it takes ~1:25 hours. Huh?! Any ideas of why this might be? Maybe Celeron is supposed to be slower than Athlon? Thanks in advance! P.S; another thing worth mentioning: since the one of the IDE cables wasn't long enough, I had to use one from an older machine... Maybe it's because I'm using an old cable? If I connect my microwave to my PC, will I be able to download food?

Did you install the motherboard drivers?

Uh, I used the System Recovery utility on the hard drive partition. This includes these drivers, right? Thanks! If I connect my microwave to my PC, will I be able to download food? I posted a question, haha

I don't know, maybe an HP expert will show up and tell us. Oops I misunderstood. A windows system recovery does not install any drivers.

If you used an old cable that is a 40 wire cable the transfer rate is limited to 33MB/sec. Change to a newer 80 wire cable. FYI, If you use Master/slave settings instead of cable select the location of the drive on the cable is of no importance. You can connect a Master in the middle if necessary.

It's not clear which hardware you swapped. I assume that you left the 80GB + 40GB hard drives in the HP, so that they would already have a lot of the drivers loaded, etc. Did you put the 64 MB video card in the HP ?The Athlon is generally a faster processor, though it depends on the precise speeds.

That's a Northwood Celeron, which has got to be one of the lowest IPC (instructions per clock) processors to roll out of Intel. The 128KB of cache really hurts performance in certain types of applications, and the fact that onboard video depends on the CPU for certain video operations does not help. I'm not surprised that the Athlon XP (which was an excellent CPU in its day) is faster, despite the lower clock speed. Thanks to its short data pipeline, the Athlon XP handled applications with "branchy" code much more efficiently than the Celeron did with its long, P4-derived data pipeline and tiny L2 cache. The IDE cable may be playing a role in the slow speed, but I doubt it. Video encoding is much less disk-intensive than many believe it to be. Perhaps the older IDE cable is slightly damaged, causing XP to run the disk in PIO mode instead of DMA in order to avoid errors? That would definitely slow things down. Check your ATAPI settings in the device manager. AMD Opteron 185 @ 3.0GHz 4.0GB of OCZ DDR400 RAM 8800GTS 640MB at 625/2000 core/mem, 1500 shader Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe X-Fi, Vista 64-bit, yada yada Completely owns the Super P3