Windows 7 Windows 7 performance hit on newly built pc

[yarano]

Hey all, thanks in advance for any advice you guys have.

Ok, so I had an old system with a 2.6 pentium D processor, 4 gigs of memory, running windows 7 pro 64 bit, and it was running fantastic. Well I decided to build a new system anyway and push the performance of windows 7 and the games I'd play, so I built a new system comprising of:

Asus P7P550D EVO motherboard
Core i7-860 2.8ghz
8 gigs pc3 8500 memory

Ok so my issue, is I built my new system, and installed windows 7 pro 64 bit on the new machine. When I got into windows, everything was SOOOO SLOW. It took avg 30-45 minutes to install, and that was the way it was with everything. Control panel took a while to come up, etc.

My question is, how does higher performing hardware run win7 worse than my old setup. Anyone know what's causing this, or how to fix it?

Side note, I updated the bios on my board and got updated drivers. Still no change. I've reinstalled win 7 3 times now on this current setup and doing the same thing each time.

 

[yarano]

Installing programs IS THE ISSUE that I am having. The only way to test it is to "install a program". Like I said before, aside from installing programs, the pc runs FLAWLESSLY.


UPDATE though:

I grabbed an 80gig Sata 3.0 from work, popped it in the drive, reinstalled the os, everything is now smooth sailing. I installed my antivirus and it did not take 30 minutes to do so this time, it was very fast. Same for my nvidia drivers. Instead of 20-30 minutes for that, it went flawlessly like it should. I took a look at my old drive and noticed it was only a standard sata, not sata 3.0 as i thought it was. So now, I propose a new question to get input on why the hell this happened: Why does a standard sata drive, which ran PERFECTLY FINE on my old system, none of these issues arising, perform like crap installing programs on my new system? (note: it wasn't sitting around for months waiting to be used, it was being used in my old pc, and that night I built the new one, popped in the drive, and installed win 7)