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wafula
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Uganda
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Posted - Jul 24 2009 :  02:49:38 AM  Show Profile  Send wafula an AOL message  Reply with Quote
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?
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wasssup1990
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A Land Down Under
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Posted - Jul 24 2009 :  05:20:16 AM  Show Profile  Visit wasssup1990's Homepage  Reply with Quote
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.

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pebe
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United Kingdom
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Posted - Jul 24 2009 :  07:50:28 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
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.
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wasssup1990
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Posted - Jul 24 2009 :  07:58:43 AM  Show Profile  Visit wasssup1990's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Hehe... Wouldn't make any difference on my computer.

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codingplanet
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United Kingdom
195 Posts

Posted - Jul 24 2009 :  4:30:37 PM  Show Profile  Visit codingplanet's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by wasssup1990

Hehe... Wouldn't make any difference on my computer.


Same here
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Aaron Cake
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Canada
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Posted - Jul 28 2009 :  10:22:53 AM  Show Profile  Visit Aaron Cake's Homepage  Send Aaron Cake an ICQ Message  Send Aaron Cake a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
512MB of RAM is your problem. 1 Gig is about the minimum. Bumping the RAM will double or triple the speed of the machine.
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jnewman
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United Kingdom
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Posted - Jul 29 2009 :  06:59:04 AM  Show Profile  Visit jnewman's Homepage  Reply with Quote
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)

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wasssup1990
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Posted - Jul 29 2009 :  07:05:55 AM  Show Profile  Visit wasssup1990's Homepage  Reply with Quote
I have 6GB of RAM and for some reason windows likes to let the usage hover around 50%.

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codingplanet
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United Kingdom
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Posted - Jul 29 2009 :  07:38:11 AM  Show Profile  Visit codingplanet's Homepage  Reply with Quote
I have 2GB but I can do anything I like without slowdowns, but I suppose the quad helps out a little there.
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wasssup1990
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Posted - Jul 29 2009 :  08:01:33 AM  Show Profile  Visit wasssup1990's Homepage  Reply with Quote
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.

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.

Edited by - wasssup1990 on Jul 29 2009 08:02:10 AM
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wasssup1990
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Posted - Jul 29 2009 :  08:08:46 AM  Show Profile  Visit wasssup1990's Homepage  Reply with Quote
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.

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codingplanet
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United Kingdom
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Posted - Jul 29 2009 :  5:00:23 PM  Show Profile  Visit codingplanet's Homepage  Reply with Quote
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.
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pebe
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Posted - Jul 29 2009 :  5:38:57 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
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)?
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codingplanet
Mad Scientist

United Kingdom
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Posted - Jul 30 2009 :  04:29:14 AM  Show Profile  Visit codingplanet's Homepage  Reply with Quote
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 :)

Edited by - codingplanet on Jul 30 2009 04:30:29 AM
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Yerboogieman
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USA
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Posted - Aug 31 2009 :  01:23:45 AM  Show Profile  Send Yerboogieman a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
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.

If you don't have the time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?
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