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razer.pcbg
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Core 2 Quad or Core i7 will solve the trick, I think. You have a multi-tasking problem and may even crash the SSD you want to buy.
Is this thing swapping all the time or what?
I occassionally have some odd behaviour from Vista on my wife's notebook. The thing is just dog slow. For some odd reason the temp folder is loaded with rubbish temp files. Cleaned them out and Vista starts running "speedier" again. Go figure.
She sends so many e-mails that Thunderbird leaves tons of temp files in there that it eventually pops up and says can't create another one.
You might be running 100 processes, but you don't say what CPU time they're doing. You probably got a happy one in there somewhere. Or that crap update that came out about a month ago which turned our financial director's SONY viao into pure rubbish because of some silly audio driver update.
I occassionally have some odd behaviour from Vista on my wife's notebook. The thing is just dog slow. For some odd reason the temp folder is loaded with rubbish temp files. Cleaned them out and Vista starts running "speedier" again. Go figure.
She sends so many e-mails that Thunderbird leaves tons of temp files in there that it eventually pops up and says can't create another one. You might be running 100 processes, but you don't say what CPU time they're doing. You probably got a happy one in there somewhere. Or that crap update that came out about a month ago which turned our financial director's SONY viao into pure rubbish because of some silly audio driver update.
killadoob
Honorary Master
Could be your hdd failing hey, damn even a normal sata or 5400rpm drive in a laptop won't lag as bad as your getting it.
An SSD may solve the problem but you may find your memory is busted so it still lags. If your pc is as bad as you say and you have reloaded i suggest getting it checked out for hardware failure or errors.
An SSD may solve the problem but you may find your memory is busted so it still lags. If your pc is as bad as you say and you have reloaded i suggest getting it checked out for hardware failure or errors.
Have you checked your disk queue, it should be <1 per physical disk. If it is higher download FileMon from www.sysinternals.com and see what is writing to the disk. Also check how much paging is your system doing. Your system should not be as slow as it is....
Robin Hood
Expert Member
...maby youre filled up with viruses...
I think those I/O writes for firefox included network traffic so it isn't an indicating that it is hammering the drive.
How about you switch off all those little productivity apps and see how the machine feels. If it is slow with nothing running then consider having it check for hardware faults.
If fast with nothing running then start enabling each app and see which one causes the issues.
How about you switch off all those little productivity apps and see how the machine feels. If it is slow with nothing running then consider having it check for hardware faults.
If fast with nothing running then start enabling each app and see which one causes the issues.
Robin hood, stfu
Conrad, i will try thanks, interesting site
it seems blazing fast now with safari beta 4, hovering around 30% cpu usage, i think that it was that darn firefox. x64 firefox works far faster, but it doesn't seem to load anymore, i am looking for a different build
Conrad, i will try thanks, interesting site
it seems blazing fast now with safari beta 4, hovering around 30% cpu usage, i think that it was that darn firefox. x64 firefox works far faster, but it doesn't seem to load anymore, i am looking for a different build
Robin hood, stfu
Conrad, i will try thanks, interesting site
it seems blazing fast now with safari beta 4, hovering around 30% cpu usage, i think that it was that darn firefox. x64 firefox works far faster, but it doesn't seem to load anymore, i am looking for a different build
Sysinternals is a truly awesome site. Anybody with an interest in IT should read Marks book; you will learn a LOT!!
30% for measurable periods seems a lot for a Web browser, whether Safari or Firefox. I think you may find there's some specific content that Safari is simply handling better than Firefox. What are the memory stats on these two ?
Am also surprised your Vista assessment is not higher. I've no idea how good an indication this is of what to expect from a machine (so please no rants from self-appointed experts) but my spec is not much different from yours (2.7 MHz AMD 7750 rather than your Intel) and I'm getting 5.6. What aspect of your machine is scoring 3.9 ? Are the other scores similar or is there a big gap to the next score ? If the latter then this may indicate where your problem lies.
Am also surprised your Vista assessment is not higher. I've no idea how good an indication this is of what to expect from a machine (so please no rants from self-appointed experts) but my spec is not much different from yours (2.7 MHz AMD 7750 rather than your Intel) and I'm getting 5.6. What aspect of your machine is scoring 3.9 ? Are the other scores similar or is there a big gap to the next score ? If the latter then this may indicate where your problem lies.
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