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I had that problem too with an nvidia geforce 7600gt back when i was using windows xp. The thing that worked for me was updating my video driver, hope this works for you too.

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you can also try to defrag the hdd, maybe it will help in some way

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1. If you really don`t like Intel, then you should change your processor, although I like Intel more than AMD 2. A pretty decent motherboard could be [url]http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3610#sp[/url]

Have you tried a different install or a different version of windows 7? Maybe that particular install has a problem

I totally agree with what Agilemind posted

On motherboard spec it says "1 x PCI-E x16 Slot". If the slot is PCI-E x16 2.0 your video card will have no problem, but if it`s PCI-E x16 1.0 your video card will not be able to work at top performance.

I would go for Norton Internet Security

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From your given info it seems like not much of a big difference except the L2 cache. In my opinion, I wouldn`t make the change.

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It would be of a good use if we would know your motherboard name.

I would go for Biostar. What exactly are you refering to by "the process for swapping a hard drive" ?