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Stuttering in games: CPU at fault?
5 months ago build a "mid-range" pc:
GPU: Powercolor 6750 XT.
CPU: Ryzen 5 5600.
Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus Elite B550m.(Bios version is the latest FFc. I believe it's beta because naming ...
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Why are secure system, system setting and secureApp.exe using too much RAM (tried DIMC.exe and sfc)?
I have a 4yr old Asus ZenBook 13 with i7 16GB. secure system and searcchApp.exe using too much RAM. It slows down a lot when only few apps are running. When there's higher demand it can get stuck. The ...
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What does the SD Association's formatter do differently from normal formatting utilities in Windows, macOS and Linux?
According to the SD Association, it is strongly recommended for SD Cards to be formatted using their own formatting utility.
I had largely ignored this until I was able to recover two SD Cards that ...
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64GB Ram on Dell G5 5590
Does anyone knows if this is 'file explorer' problem or the RAM problem?
I bought two bar of 32GB RAM (64GB kit) from Crusial last week and just installed it Saturday. Bios recognizes the new RAM, ...
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Unsure why RAM usage in Firefox exceeded 32GB due to one specific tab
What had happened:
On Firefox (Version 132.0.2 (64-bit)), which is the latest update, opening a specific website link caused my RAM usage to go ballistic, exceeding the 32 GB of RAM I have available. ...
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Linux virtual machine boot taking way too long on refurbished windows 10 host
I have an Ubuntu VM that I mostly use as a Samba server. My host is a refurbished Dell laptop (Core I7) that seems to have seen heavy use , so I'm assuming portions of the SSD have been rendered ...
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my pc has become slow, it just gotten slower on its own
These are my computer's specs:
Intel core i5 3570
GT 710 DDR3
8GB ram
It may not be powerful by modern standards, but it can play some games , like Minecraft, kinda good. My pc can run it over ...
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How to prevent my computer from freezing after overnight training runs
In my spare time I train ML models on my computer overnight. I typically do this by just preventing the computer from going to sleep and turning off the screens before I go to bed. In the morning I'll ...
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High "System" CPU usage; unaccounted for Memory usage
I fresh reinstalled Windows 11 a couple months back, and for a while now it seems like there's some sort of memory leak (?) that causes high CPU usage by the "System" process, high memory ...
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Dedicated GPU memory of ryzen 5 5500u
I have a HP laptop (16GB DDR4 RAM) which has Ryzen 5 5500u processor (integrated GPU).
When I go to task manager, under performance section it shows the dedicated GPU memory is only 512 MB and the ...
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Can I force/request windows preemptively cache files to RAM?
I'm working with some computers with an unusual configuration, where they have mostly high-end components (including a 12th gen i9 CPU and 64GB of DDR5 RAM), but we're booting Windows 10 from old ...
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Dual rank or single rank?
I've seen multiple sources online stating that single or dual rank are faster than the other. I'm looking to upgrade my ram and due to 1x32GB stick and 2x16GB being virtually the same in price (~£3 ...
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What type of RAM use is affected by RAM sticks not being of the same exact type?
It's advised that all RAM sticks in a computer be of the exact same type (manufacturer, version, etc.). (e.g here) Assuming they are not, what performance will be lost (assuming XMP still manages to ...
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Memory performance on vintage 486 computers using SpeedSys
A seemingly large community of vintage Intel 486 computer enthusiasts use SpeedSys (among others) to check whether their newly acquired/repaired machine works as expected.
This is what such a test ...
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Why is faster pc i5:ram 4, ssd 256, core 4, then laptop i7: ram 16, ssd 500, core 10?
I have such a case and maybe you can help me, what is the reason?
I did a test, reading an excel file (310 MB) in python (pandas).
Laptop(IdeaPad Slim 5 16IRL8): i7, ram 16, ssd 500, core 10, 2.4 ghz, ...
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Expected results of a stream memory bandwidth benchmark
I recently built a Threadripper system and ran the stream memory bandwidth benchmark on it. The results are much lower than the theoretical bandwidth of the system, and I am not sure if these transfer ...
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Explorer.exe memory leak when miniatures' performance Options is checked
For the last few days, I've had a very weird problem where Explorer.exe starts eating all of my system memory (16GB) after opening an Explorer window. If I restart the process and don't open any ...
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Debian server on raspberry pi becomes slow after about 30 hours
I am running about 5 docker containers on a raspberry pi 4b+ (4gb ram version), and about after 30 hours, it will become painfully slow to use, in all aspects. This server does not use a desktop ...
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How to objectively measure RAM latency impact on performance
I'm already aware of these questions:
how to know if RAM is my bottleneck
How to determine if CPU or RAM or DISK is the bottleneck on Windows 7
How can I know if the speed of RAM is the bottleneck ...
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My PC is very slow, opening explorer takes 5-10 min to load properly
I have a laptop with the following specs: i5-6200U, 8GB LPDDR3L RAM, 240GB SATA SSD(Boot and C Drive without any partitions) + 1TB HDD.
My PC can't handle 3 programs at once right now. It always ...
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Low FPS while using Lumion on Windows
I use a windows laptop with these specs:
AMD Ryzen 7 5800H,
Nvidia GeForce 3050 Ti and
16 Gb RAM
500Gb SSD.
I’m trying to use Lumion, but the FPS is really low (1-5) making it impossible to work ...
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Why does my Windows install use over twice as much RAM as my open processes? (8+ GB used) [duplicate]
Something I've noticed on many completely different computers I've owned and across Windows 10 and 11 is that my RAM usage never seems to really add up to what's actually being used. It's never really ...
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Do you think 3200 MHz 16 GB master RAM plus 3200 MHz 4 GB slave RAM (20GB total) will cause any bottleneck?
Some genius product developers decided to put 8 GB of ram to RTX 3060 laptop. I know that Ryzen 5 5600h CPU of this laptop is good enough to not create any bottleneck for RTX 3060 but I am trying to ...
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should i create swap space in my laptop?
My Laptop has i7 10th gen + 8GB ram
NVIDIA GeForce MX230 2Gb graphic card
my daily usage inteliiJ (3-4 instance), chrome (15-20 tabs), postman (1 instance), VS code(2 instance),
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poor performance win10 and howto improve it
I have an HP laptop 4GB with intel core M5Y10c 0.80GHz 1.00GHz and windows 10 x64
The performance is really poor and also the UI is slow and unreliable.
I've tried to disable useless characteristics ...
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Why does Chrome's memory saver make Chrome faster?
I read in Chrome:
Why does Chrome's memory saver make Chrome faster? I thought it'd only free up some RAM.
Chrome version 108.0.5359.125 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Windows 10.
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Why cannot music files be deleted, moved or renamed if any software is playing them?
While rearranging my music collection, I keep running into the highly frustrating situation where Windows (10) refuses to let met delete, move or rename a file just because I'm having it playing at ...
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Memtest86 reports same read speed / different write speed with single and dual channel ram. How?
This is my old desktop pc with:
Intel i5-7400 / 16G+16G (Corsair CMK16GX4M1A2400C16 ) / GA-H110M-H mobo.
I did Passmark Memtest86 Ram Benchmark with single (16G) stick and double (16G+16G) sticks and ...
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How to switch between Docker related development and non-Docker related development?
This is a copy of my original question.
On my PC, I have a process "vmmem", eating up to 1.6Gb of RAM, and regularly using my entire CPU usage. After some investigation, based on several ...
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Vmmem process high memory usage makes Win10 very slow
I run WSL2 on my Win10 machine with 32GB RAM. I use it for Docker and WSL. Since some days back the computer extremely slow, it freezes every 10-15 seconds.
λ wsl -l -v
NAME STATE ...
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Excel performance declining over time (hundreds of thousand + loop iterations/millions of calculations)
I am currently using a workbook where I connect to a MySQL database, download a recordset and then loop through 100,000s of unique IDs. The workbook has 31 sheets. Excel is ran in AWS where we open 5 ...
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How can I know if the speed of RAM is the bottleneck rather than CPU speed?
I have a lot of RAM, 20GB to be precise. However they are not exactly high-end RAMs.Two of them are Kingston 8GB RAMs with 800MHz speed and the other two are some no name brand 2GB RAMs with just ...
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Is 3600MHZ RAM enough or 3200MHZ?
I'm adding 16 GB of RAM for my Windows 11 Desktop . Motherboard is Asus B550M-A
CPU is AMD Ryzen5950.
Per google Ryzen5950 has a base clock speed of 3.4 GHz and a max boost clock speed of 4.9 GHz.
I'm ...
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RAM usage is growing up to 96-98% for no reason?
Recently my computer has had an issue involving strange high RAM usage.
Right after starting up, the RAM usage is kind of high (about 48-50% of 16GB) but it's still usable.
After I open some apps for ...
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How to check which services are using too much memory
I have a Windows 10 laptop that constantly has high memory usage, even on idle. I did a selective startup with Microsoft and Intel services only, but the memory usage was only marginally lower than ...
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Android emulator performance is extremely unstable
First of all, hopefully this is the right place to post this type of question - if it isn't, do let me know.
I have a relatively new PC with 16 GB RAM, 10th Gen Core i3, 4 physical and 4 virtual cores ...
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50% of Ram used when Idle, Games run with massive performance issues
Recently, my computer started to use almost 50% of ram while idle. Not only this, but all of a sudden while multi-tasking programs slowed down, I had been able to run these programs simultaneously ...
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How to score RAM based on timings, frequency, and number of sticks?
Currently putting together a box for an Alder Lake processor, e.g. an i7-12700k or i9-12900k. I still need to select the memory (RAM) for it.
How can I compare different options to determine which ...
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RAM usage discrepancy - processes don't add up
Noticing issues with RAM usage on laptops. Windows 10 x64.
The RAM usage on the performance tab does not match that on the user tab of Task Manager.
If I add up all processes on process tab, they don'...
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Why OS(s) take so much memory. Are they fully optimised?
Mac Os eating more than 3.5 GB's of Ram:
I have seen windows and mac os taking about 3-4 GB of ram space even in cleaned PC with no apps opened.
Can't developers further optimise operating systems to ...
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ZRAM vs ZSWAP for lower end hardware?
I spent the last 2 days researching about these two features that allow saving a bit of memory.
Here's how I understood them:
ZRAM: Once the RAM reaches 100% usage (or the remaining
incompressible ...
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Do programs use less resources when run for longer?
Would a computer program or app use less resources the longer it is kept active? I understand that this might be true, because of caching and the likes, but it feels really odd to me that when running ...
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Using Different RAM brands, sizes and speeds
I have just purchased a Dell XPS desktop. It has four slots for RAM. Two slots already have 8 GB sticks of Dell DDR5 UDIMM 4400 MHz RAM. I have two sticks of Crucial 16 GB DDR5 UDIMM 4800 MHz. I've ...
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Why is my SATA 2 SSD dog slow?
I have an SSD drive (not NVME or M2, just the ordinary SATA type). Sorry, I cant tell the exact model but it is one of the well known brands, not some unknown origin. I am using it since 2016. ...
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Automate a periodical "Minimize Memory usage" on Firefox
During many years using Firefox and forks and I've realized that sometimes Firefox gets slow and sometimes unresponsive.
Workaround, going to about:memory, and clicking on "Measure" button ...
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Max CPU Memory MT/s VS MHz
I was looking at the Intel i9 12900k specifications stating that the memory types supported are DDR5 4800 MT/s and DDR4 at 3200 MT/s.
What is that translated to MHz?
And will a CPU with max memory ...
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Periodic drops in SSD writing speed down to 20 MB/sec
Before yesterday I had extremely slow writing speeds on my SSD.
My main SSD has capacity of 1.7 TB.
I have another SSD but with smaller capacity of 960 GB.
I decided to test the writing speed of both ...
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Nexpose consumes 16GB RAM and is slow with 3.3GHz quad core
Nexpose vulnerability scanner was using too much RAM to run locally on my laptop, so I got it a high performance VPS that well exceeds its requirements. The Debian 10 server has 18GB RAM, 3.3GHz CPU ...
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How to make the Windows GUI draw itself faster
I have a fairly powerful Windows 10 machine with multiple SATA SSDs, Core i7-3770K @3.90 GHz and 32 GB RAM. GPU is a GTX 950 powering three 4K monitors at 200% dpi setting.
However, I can basically ...
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Windows 10 - Can't view what's causing high memory usage [duplicate]
My PC is generally sitting towards 90% memory usage and often hitting 100%. If I look in the Task Manager I can see one app using roughly 20% but there rest of the processes don't add up to 90%.
I ...
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