@§layerXT
Hm.. Lacking of HT function? AFAIK, i had been use S478 for almost 4yrs, i never faced this kind of problem before. What mobo are u using? Did u install the mobo chipset driver?

@§layerXT
P4 1.8GHzis quite hard to handle the heavy load due to lack of L2, no HT and low fsb(400). this will be quite noticeable when you running multiple tasks at the same time. like what you mentioned, torrenting and copying large size data. how much ram you having now??

driver may be some of the reason. like fylon said, install latest chipset driver will help to boost a bit the performance.

torrenting takes up lots of resources, make sure you have enough RAM. for file transfer, windows startup speed, normal torrenting, the P4 1.8 CPU should be able to handle the tasks just fine. Might be other components that is causing the slowdowns, such as faulty mobo chipset. Me & kabukiawie had encountered same issue on KT2 combo mobos, two same mobo with different HDD transfer speed due to faulty mobo (one very fast read/write, another very slow and take up huge CPU resources). Slow/dying HDD might be the problem also.

Yea. It might be faulty chipset on the mobo which causing the issues. By then, they might be some other reason also such like ram, harddisk perhaps?

Guys, do u guys face something like when u transfer the 1st file (large size files), the transfer speed is damn, but once it done and continue with 2nd file the transfer speed suddenly drop by alot become slow..

But ur case is weired.I never see this happen before even on notebook.Maybe ur labtop doesn't like odd numbers of files transferring.

@§layerXT ,your proc and mobo combination is fine but the torrent program won't eating up so much of resources when BTing. What Bt software you are using?