xBeyond Beliefx
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Hello everyone.
Over the years my computer has performed very well and it still has good hardware even though I got it in early 2008. Here are the specs.
Computer: Dell XPS Studio 435MT
Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium
CPU: 2.8ghz Intel Core i7, 2668 Mhz
Hard drive: Partitioned 1TB drive
Optical Drive: BD RW drive
GPU: 1GB Nvidia Geforce GTX 680 Ti
RAM: 8GB
Everything except the graphics card are from the factory and of course the power supply which I also switched out.
Anyways... I've been having really bad everyday slow performance especially on start up. Upon starting up now, it takes a very long time before you can even click on any icons or the start menu even after the desktop seems to have fully loaded. Even after waiting 10 minutes after the desktop loads, the action of simply clicking on anything such as Google Chrome for example takes awhile (appox 20-30 secs). The cursor stops sometimes completely and playback on streaming videos is jumpy almost like the computer can't keep up to a low detail 360p Youtube video.... not sure why? It can't be anything to due with the GPU because it plays games fine ones the application is open, it seems it only does it when you are multitasking even though multitasking in some cases is an understatement.
I'm fairly knowledgeable on computers and have done regular maintenance such as updating software/hardware, malware/virus scans, defrags, deleting unwanted programs, clearing cache files and disk cleanups, all that sort of stuff. I've gone through setting startup programs, services and looked through processes in task manager and nothing is out of the ordinary. The CPU says it runs at 1% even at the time of the jumpiness I guess I could say. That is of course at idol pretty much. But my desktop still is very slugish and frustrating at times when it can't even open a folder! It doesn't crash or freeze, it just can't seem to load things. Is there anything that can be done to maybe fix this because I've tried everything in my power that I know of to no prevail.
Thanks
Over the years my computer has performed very well and it still has good hardware even though I got it in early 2008. Here are the specs.
Computer: Dell XPS Studio 435MT
Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium
CPU: 2.8ghz Intel Core i7, 2668 Mhz
Hard drive: Partitioned 1TB drive
Optical Drive: BD RW drive
GPU: 1GB Nvidia Geforce GTX 680 Ti
RAM: 8GB
Everything except the graphics card are from the factory and of course the power supply which I also switched out.
Anyways... I've been having really bad everyday slow performance especially on start up. Upon starting up now, it takes a very long time before you can even click on any icons or the start menu even after the desktop seems to have fully loaded. Even after waiting 10 minutes after the desktop loads, the action of simply clicking on anything such as Google Chrome for example takes awhile (appox 20-30 secs). The cursor stops sometimes completely and playback on streaming videos is jumpy almost like the computer can't keep up to a low detail 360p Youtube video.... not sure why? It can't be anything to due with the GPU because it plays games fine ones the application is open, it seems it only does it when you are multitasking even though multitasking in some cases is an understatement.
I'm fairly knowledgeable on computers and have done regular maintenance such as updating software/hardware, malware/virus scans, defrags, deleting unwanted programs, clearing cache files and disk cleanups, all that sort of stuff. I've gone through setting startup programs, services and looked through processes in task manager and nothing is out of the ordinary. The CPU says it runs at 1% even at the time of the jumpiness I guess I could say. That is of course at idol pretty much. But my desktop still is very slugish and frustrating at times when it can't even open a folder! It doesn't crash or freeze, it just can't seem to load things. Is there anything that can be done to maybe fix this because I've tried everything in my power that I know of to no prevail.
Thanks
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