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Processor bottleneck Windows 11?
Posted on 12/21/23 at 1:38 pm
Posted on 12/21/23 at 1:38 pm
A friend asked me to take a look at her laptop because it is incredibly slow, thought there might be something I could do to fix it.
It is a Lenovo IdeaPad 3 running Win11 My guess is it started off with 10 and was upgraded. It has a 1 TB HDD that is barely used (less than 100 GB used) and 12 GB of RAM. Nothing in the basic specs should be slowing it down. It had McAfee installed, and I removed that so it wouldn't conflict with Windows Defender - it helped some, but it is still not as fast as it should be.
The only thing that I am coming back to is the CPU - Intel i5-10210U @ 1.60 GHz. Given that this was a Win10 machine out of the box, is that processor or the lower end for what it takes to run 11? Could it be causing bottlenecks in performance that weren't seen under 10?
It is a Lenovo IdeaPad 3 running Win11 My guess is it started off with 10 and was upgraded. It has a 1 TB HDD that is barely used (less than 100 GB used) and 12 GB of RAM. Nothing in the basic specs should be slowing it down. It had McAfee installed, and I removed that so it wouldn't conflict with Windows Defender - it helped some, but it is still not as fast as it should be.
The only thing that I am coming back to is the CPU - Intel i5-10210U @ 1.60 GHz. Given that this was a Win10 machine out of the box, is that processor or the lower end for what it takes to run 11? Could it be causing bottlenecks in performance that weren't seen under 10?
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Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:56 pm to PJinAtl
If you open task manager, is the HDD running at 100%?
This is a known windows 10/11 issue for a non SSD or M2 drive. Will make the pc run very very slow.
If this is the case, I would look to replce the HDD with an SSD.
This is a known windows 10/11 issue for a non SSD or M2 drive. Will make the pc run very very slow.
If this is the case, I would look to replce the HDD with an SSD.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 3:54 pm to griddle
Yep, plenty of ram so upgrade to ssd to get best bang for buck on performance
Posted on 12/21/23 at 4:02 pm to griddle
Just took a look and it is maxing out. Thank you.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 5:40 pm to PJinAtl
Slap an SSD in that machine and it'll purr
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