PC slowness "Virtual Memory"

[DRTDVL 0]

glenn i'll reply tomorrow

[crshbndct 0]

i would reccomend lots of ram and an ssd.

and, depending on what software you using, linux. but i a l33t hax0r and stuff.

i just built a computer for a guy who wants to do 3d graphics design.

amd 1090 6 core

nvidia gtx480 1.5gb

16gb ram

2x256gb ssd and 2tb 7200rpm

it was fast

[flyrat 0]

Hi Fuzyfrog,

your windows is only seeing 3gb because you are running a 32bit operating system. win7 64bit will see all of it.

You can do it using bootcamp. see here.

Glenn,

Your laptop has some awesome specs, it should be fine for your purposes.

When you say it's running slow, is that when you are using Photoshop?

if so, got to preferences - performance, and check the memory usage, also check if your 'enable OpenGL drawing under the GPU settings, this will allow Photoshop to use the hardware acceleration of the graphics card.

If it's slow generally, ctrl alt delete - start task manager, click processes and just make sure nothing else is hogging your cpu (click the cpu column and it will sort by usage) - you may have an overly active anti-virus app or malware on there.

I regularly run a few apps to keep my pc running well,

CCleaner

spybot search and destroy

and I just use AVG. some other apps like norton internet security can slow you right down.

just watch out if any of them want to install toolbars etc - untick the ask toolbar etc when you do the setup.

might pay to put the cpu / memory meter gadget on your desktop (win7) so you can see at a glance what your cpu and memory status is. You don't want to get over about 75% on your memory usage, so if it does, something is hogging it.

hope this helps

cheers

Andrew