Fking Posted April 20, 2012 Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 Well i got a i7, 3.3ghz, 500gb black western digitals on mirror raid, top shelf video card and 4GB of ram since i'm stuck with 32 bit windows 7 because of some software i need to use. I was expecting it to be blazing fast, especially considering that I come from dual core 2ghz laptop. It's nothing special and lately (the OS install is few months old now) is infact being pretty slow. (no viruses or stuff like that) Is there a way to analyze and find the bottle neck in the system? I guess most will say is the RAM but i'm using it mostly for web development, and none of the software is too heavy. Residently open apps are stuff like Chrome, Thunderbird and few other light ones.The ram usage is at about 70% and the cpu clock is jumping from 1 to 3 ghz with load most of the times at few %.When occasionally i need to open MS word, excel photoshop or dreamweaver they really take their time to load. And often even jumping between programs is laggish. Any advice? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted April 20, 2012 Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 Can you post details of the processes using your CPU + RAM ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bludgard Posted April 20, 2012 Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 Is there a way to analyze and find the bottle neck in the system?I run PS, DW and PR with 1GB Ram on Windows 7 X86 without any problems (although a bit sluggish on opening Adobe or graphics intensive programs such as VideoReDo to mux and/or de/re-mux TS recordings [once opened; no problems]). As your machine seems to be a hardware "beast"; it would appear to be software related or in need of configuration tweaks.Windows 7 comes with a tool named Resource Monitor. This can be very useful to track bottlenecking. Other tools such as Autoruns, Process Monitor and Process Explorer can also be of use when tracking down gremlins in a computing box. All these tools are FREE!Time, patience and tenacity will see it all trough. If there are any questions regarding the usage of monitoring programs; come on back and type in a few more words and there may be a soul willing to lend a hand.... :) Jobe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted April 20, 2012 Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 You can also use Crap Cleaner,http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleanerOnce installed, go to tools, start up, and disable all the crap that the manufacturer enabled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted April 21, 2012 Report Share Posted April 21, 2012 i'm stuck with 32 bit windows 7 because of some software i need to use.I am curious: what kind of software cannot run on 64-bit Windows??? Regarding the slowness of your 32-bit system; have you checked startup processes and running services? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bludgard Posted April 21, 2012 Report Share Posted April 21, 2012 i'm stuck with 32 bit windows 7 because of some software i need to use.I am curious: what kind of software cannot run on 64-bit Windows???All due respect:We are a 32-bit world living in a 64-bit environment.WoW can handle a lot of progs, but there have been posts (not just on this forum) where certain software just refuses to run on a 64-bit system.I have "downgraded" my X64 bit machines to x86. On a side not: I syill haven't seen any pix of your recent (within the last year) vist to Thailand. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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