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| wafula |
Posted - Jul 24 2009 : 02:49:38 AM
Hullo,let some one help me out there.I have a pc running on win xp sp2
file ntfs.RAm512mb,3.0ghz
Initially this pc was fast given its spec bt now i dam slow.I have tried to scan for viruses and cleaned Amvo and some trojan horse.But still is slow,also disk spac is not used up what can i do?
wafula |
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| Yerboogieman |
Posted - Aug 31 2009 : 01:23:45 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Aaron Cake
512MB of RAM is your problem. 1 Gig is about the minimum. Bumping the RAM will double or triple the speed of the machine.
I have 256mb on my laptop. I used to use that as my main machine. I finally got tired of it and hooked up my desktop. Then my dad wanted his second LCD monitor back and bought me a wide-screen. |
| codingplanet |
Posted - Jul 30 2009 : 04:29:14 AM
Control Panel -> System -> Advanced System Settings -> Advanced Tab -> "Settings" Button under the "Performance" section -> Another Advanced Tab -> "Change" button under "Virtual Memory" -> Uncheck "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives" -> Select any drives containing paging files from the list -> With each drive Select the "No paging file" radio button -> Click the "Set" button -> When done all drives Click OK -> It'll ask for a restart
Hope that got it :) |
| pebe |
Posted - Jul 29 2009 : 5:38:57 PM
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Originally posted by jnewman
I have a gig of RAM in all my workstations now, and as I don't run many applications at the same time, I disabled virtual memory which has sped the machine up signficantly (and made the hard disk shut up a bit)
My hard disk is constantly thrashing about. How can I disable virtual memory (I have XP)? |
| codingplanet |
Posted - Jul 29 2009 : 5:00:23 PM
5.9 is highest. My HDD is what stops me getting 5.9s all the way. I'm thinking about an Intel X25-M G2, still a bit pricey though @ £180 for 80GB. |
| wasssup1990 |
Posted - Jul 29 2009 : 08:08:46 AM
Hey codingplanet do you know if it is possible to score a 6.0 on the windows vista performance benchmark? I've got 5.9 for everything. |
| wasssup1990 |
Posted - Jul 29 2009 : 08:01:33 AM
The quad core is great. Actually windows shows it as being an 8-core cpu because there are 2 threads per core.
The bottle neck with this computer, like most computers, is the hard drive since it is the only mechanical device that is used frequently. The SSDs for a good capacity are far too expensive now, but the prices are comming down slowwwwwwly.
I'm not sure but I think the CPU can do something like 250G FLOPS and my graphics card can do 1T FLOPS. The GC has 240 cores in one GPU but they are not designed and clocked like the general purpose processing cores in a CPU. |
| codingplanet |
Posted - Jul 29 2009 : 07:38:11 AM
I have 2GB but I can do anything I like without slowdowns, but I suppose the quad helps out a little there. |
| wasssup1990 |
Posted - Jul 29 2009 : 07:05:55 AM
I have 6GB of RAM and for some reason windows likes to let the usage hover around 50%. |
| jnewman |
Posted - Jul 29 2009 : 06:59:04 AM
I have a gig of RAM in all my workstations now, and as I don't run many applications at the same time, I disabled virtual memory which has sped the machine up signficantly (and made the hard disk shut up a bit) |
| Aaron Cake |
Posted - Jul 28 2009 : 10:22:53 AM
512MB of RAM is your problem. 1 Gig is about the minimum. Bumping the RAM will double or triple the speed of the machine. |
| codingplanet |
Posted - Jul 24 2009 : 4:30:37 PM
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Originally posted by wasssup1990
Hehe... Wouldn't make any difference on my computer. 
Same here  |
| wasssup1990 |
Posted - Jul 24 2009 : 07:58:43 AM
Hehe... Wouldn't make any difference on my computer. |
| pebe |
Posted - Jul 24 2009 : 07:50:28 AM
If a program is the problem, then a likely candidate is AVG Anti-virus. It contains a "Resident shield" which insists on checking an installed program for viruses, every time you use it.
A bit of a waste of time, considering those programs will have been checked when you downloded them. I disabled the feature and speeded up my machine considerably. |
| wasssup1990 |
Posted - Jul 24 2009 : 05:20:16 AM
Adding more RAM seems to be a common fix for this problem since it reduces page file usage on the hard disk. Or it could be a program you installed that is hogging system resources. |
