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<blockquote data-quote="RejZoR" data-source="post: 812584" data-attributes="member: 57233"><p>I have a heavily overclocked 5820K with 32GB of RAM and very fast Samsung 850 Pro 2TB and it's still terrifyingly slow. Other AV's don't even make a blip on the performance, but with WD, I can actually sense how things get to an absolute halt when it's scanning them and then all pops up when that is over. It's unacceptable on such high end system and you can imagine what kind of toll it makes on lower spec'd systems or laptops, even if they have an SSD. I have such devices and it was pretty bad. Installing avast! on same systems and I basically can't sense any slowdown at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RejZoR, post: 812584, member: 57233"] I have a heavily overclocked 5820K with 32GB of RAM and very fast Samsung 850 Pro 2TB and it's still terrifyingly slow. Other AV's don't even make a blip on the performance, but with WD, I can actually sense how things get to an absolute halt when it's scanning them and then all pops up when that is over. It's unacceptable on such high end system and you can imagine what kind of toll it makes on lower spec'd systems or laptops, even if they have an SSD. I have such devices and it was pretty bad. Installing avast! on same systems and I basically can't sense any slowdown at all. [/QUOTE]
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