Just Put New Computer Together, New System not running as well as old : ( Help

What is your HDD rpm ? Works fine for 7200, may have problem for 5400 (green drives may be of slower speed).
 
Check if the following tweak helps ?
- select my computer
- right click on the main drive sonar is storing audio files, select Properties
- below the disk capacity chart is an option to 'Allow files on this drive...' to be indexed. Uncheck this option.

Thanks for all of the informative feedback!

Unchecking the Files Index did help, a little.
However, It's still not right. My 5 year old system annihilated this one!

Tonight my project was very simple, I'm running True Pianos, EZ Drummer,
and 1 stereo audio track. When I hit play, for just a second, I actually get a
little hour glass before it plays? A couple times, NOT RESPONDING. So frustrating.
I tried to replace my 8GB Viper XTreme DDR3 1600MHZ Ram with 16GB G.Skills DDR3 1333MHZ Ram and no difference.

I'm going to try another video card tomorrow.

And what's this noise in my speakers now? I never had that? Noisy Hard Drive maybe?

I'm suspect to this WD Blue Drive. I think it may be the culprit. Or maybe it's Win 7 Ultimate,
or maybe this motherboard is meant to be, or maybe the 6 core processor isn't good for Sonar?
Ugggh, hahaha...

On the Western Digital Site it says
WD Blue - Solid Performance for Everyday Computing
WD BLACK - Maximum performance

One of the WD forms stated
Blacks perform the best of the WDs in day to day desktop use.
Greens are dogs. Blues don't really come close to Blacks. 
SSD performs even better.

I did not run DPCLAAT test. I'm not online at the studio and I don't feel comfortable installing more software.

I removed drivers from graphic card, reinstalled with just the drivers, none of the 3D stuff or additional add ons.
Helped a wee little.

I noticed when I am playing back, in the large transport view, only 4 of my six cores are actively working.
Here's a video. And it seems stange my CPU running so sparatic 20% then 37% etc. The project is very basic,
3 midi tracks, 3 audio tracks.
This forum will not let me post links to my YouTube video of this but you can search this title In YouTube and see
6 core AMD CPU and only 4 cores are working in Sonar

Here's what I used to do to enable all cores in my quadcore. Tried the same for this new 6 core and only 4 are working.
Even in a more demanding project file.

And in YouTube check this one out


Cakewalk Sonar Multi-Core, Quad-core CPU help

I am back in gear.
Not certain which of the following moves fixed EVERYTHING but I'm flying now.
*Bought a WD Black Drive.
*Clean Install Win7 and did all crucial updates
*Replaced the GEFORCE GT630 video card, which I thought would be great with 2048MB of DDR3?
However, it had some HD Audio device that showed up in device manager, even when disabled. It was really funky.
*Installed all software with right click as administrator. Why would this make a difference? Don't know but I was told to do it this way and can't remember if I did it that way with previous install?
*Installed insulation washers/rings on screws securing Motherboard to case. Previously I used the screws that came with the motherboard and there were no insulation washers. The laser gun noises in monitors are now gone. This could be a factor.
* I now upgraded to X3e Producer
* So re-registering all the serials and what not was a royal pain but I couldn't take it running, just ok.

Also, I didn't do much tweaking and It's flying with all 6 cores and plenty of room for processing. Woo Hoo!

Now the learning curve with X3. I like some of the new features with X3. But some of the little things I can't find like changing Sound On Sound(default, why is this default) to Overwrite. And it's not in the help files. The choice of Inserting Tempo or Changing tempo in a project, can't find ... Just that little tempo button at the top? Small little basics, I can't seem to figure out, but I'm digging in none the less.

P.S. I like EZ Drummer better than Addictive Drums. But I'm sure A.D. will come in handy for something down the line.



 

Thanks for the "insert tempo" help scook! How about Sound On Sound and Overwrite options?

I posted here initially because I was using Sonar 8.3 Producer.