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levyte357- ![]() Old Croc ![]() ![]() Joined: 27 July 2012 Location: UK, South East Status: Offline Points: 8079 |
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Agreed... I broke my golden rule of "NEVER" opening FB games in FF, and that was a major culprit.. ![]() Will take a look at Waterfox x64. Built this machine approx 18 months ago, and only 2x Windows crashes I've had, were due to beta installs of FF x64.. ![]() |
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Global Depopulation - Alive and Killing.
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mini-mad ![]() Old Croc ![]() ![]() Joined: 13 July 2012 Location: london Status: Offline Points: 6903 |
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personallyi thought he was asking about upgrade path as appose to "fixing" the pauses....
but yes nothing a declutter and hoovering out wont solve. ..and do convert over to a SSD boot drive wen you can. it makes a huge difference. mine, my wifes and my 6 year olds laptop all running SSD's and it makes my life easier wen my girls dont complain about sluggish computers.
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If it sounds like a gorilla is trying to escape, turn it down.
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TENSiON ![]() Registered User ![]() ![]() Joined: 02 September 2012 Status: Offline Points: 279 |
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Deffo not your CPU that is at fault. Well, at least not if it isn't overheating (better check the temps, should be well bellow 60deg). The fan (or the heatsink itself) could be clogged up.
On another note, if it is mostly the browsers where you notice the pauses, then the cause might be javascript related processing in FF/Chrome. It's strange that it would happen with only so few tabs open, but still a possibility. The JS garbage collector & memory cycle collector are quite shite (especially in FF) and can cause such spikes in some situations. As a general advice, make sure to restart the browsers at least once a day, and allways keep them up to date (new versions tend to include performance/memory fixes). And seeing that you are running a 64bit OS, I would also advice to replace Firefox with its younger 64bit brother, Waterfox (google it). It is still firefox, but compiled for 64bit, and apart from that also includes various performance improovements. And if it's not the browsers, then use the task manager to find the culprit: CTRL+ALT+DEL -> Start Task Manager -> Processes -> CPU and check what process is eating the most CPU durring those spikes. But the bottom like still is, that your CPU should handle all those things you've listed without much trouble. |
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mini-mad ![]() Old Croc ![]() ![]() Joined: 13 July 2012 Location: london Status: Offline Points: 6903 |
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..or the Q8300-8400... and overclock that even... thas whats in my wifes (yes she gets the good stuff)
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mini-mad ![]() Old Croc ![]() ![]() Joined: 13 July 2012 Location: london Status: Offline Points: 6903 |
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theres not as much in it as people or test make out... overclock the Q66 and water cool it for now...
my 6320 is over clocked to 2.4G and runs 4gig on Win7-64 on a 128SSD.. quick as fcuk.
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levyte357- ![]() Old Croc ![]() ![]() Joined: 27 July 2012 Location: UK, South East Status: Offline Points: 8079 |
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Win 7x64, 16gb 1066 DDR3, 1TB main drive, El cheapo 250gb swap drive.
With FF (5x tabs), Chrome (5x tabs), Outlook, Windows Live Mail, Excel, Adobe, running, every now and then, unacceptable 1/2 a second pause, and all 4x cpu performance meters reaching 80-90%. ![]() Not ready for Core I5 21xx yet, is Q9xxx chip worth considering ? |
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