Upgrade not what I had hoped for... am I missing something?

voovegas

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I just built my 3rd computer today and was expecting a huge difference in speed and I am not really happy with the results...

I went from:

Athlon 64 3800+ to a Phenom x4 9550
Asus A8v Deluxe 939 pin Mobo to Asus M3N78 Pro AM2+ Mobo
1 gig ram to 4 gig PC6400 800 ram
ATI 800 pro 128mb AGP8 video card to ATI HD 4650 1gb ddr2 PCI-2.0 video card

I've flashed the bios, updated the video drivers, and updated windows and I'm just not getting a speed increase over my old setup. In some cases (like getting online) it's actually slower.

I thought I was getting pretty knowledgable by my 3rd build but this has me totally stumped...

am I missing something?
do I have a bottleneck I'm not seeing?
could this be a power issue? I'm only running a 420w ATX power supply.

Help!
 
Did you reformat Windows?

No... I re-used my old HDD and just re-installed windows on it without formatting it first. I asked the question on another site and someone else mentioned formatting also. It looks like I'll be formatting tonight.
 
Yeah, that's something you need to do. Windows installations are hardware specific, mainly being motherboards.
 
Big difference after formatting.

This is the first time I've re-used a HDD and didn't think it would make a difference but after starting from scratch everything is a ton quicker today.

Thanks for the advice.
 
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