Fastest responding Desktop computer ?
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| 1 | At present I have an ACER all in one desktop. It is so slow at responding. For example when I press an item on the task bar or home screen it takes 1/2 minutes sometimes to open. Run Kaspersky and Malaware Bytes. Tried Rebooting, incuding the wifi. coverworldnz - 2021-02-20 11:59:00 |
| 2 | youre missing all the specs of your pc tine0212 - 2021-02-20 12:11:00 |
| 3 | I have 4 pc's, including an old acer all in one(4g ram). Like yours it is so slow that i could almost brew a coffee while waiting for things to open. But my even older hp laptop is even worse still and actually could brew up when first waiting at startup(also 4g ram, tried putting both 4g sticks in either, made little if any difference to either). Edited by gpg58 at 12:30 pm, Sat 20 Feb gpg58 - 2021-02-20 12:17:00 |
| 4 | "You are missing all the specs of ypour pc" coverworldnz - 2021-02-20 12:20:00 |
| 5 | How long is a piece of string? A decent modern 4 or 6 core processor, 8GB of ram (16GB if opening a lot of programs/tabs at once), a fast m.2 SSD and keeping Windows trim and maintained - as in not having a million unnecessary programs running on startup. These basic specs are in my opinion the base of a really good performing desktop for all round use (assuming you aren't gaming). I am sure other opinions will differ. cube_guy - 2021-02-20 12:25:00 |
| 6 | coverworldnz wrote:
He means he wants you to list the specifications of your current AIO so maybe we can help determine why it is slow. cube_guy - 2021-02-20 12:26:00 |
| 7 | It also depends on what operating system one is running as to regard the responsiveness. tygertung - 2021-02-20 12:43:00 |
| 8 | They are running Malwarebytes on an Acer AIO, I am sure we can all be comfortable in saying it isn't Linux. cube_guy - 2021-02-20 12:54:00 |
| 9 | What's the exact make and model of the computer? What you've done is like staying: "Ib have a Ford car and it's slow can anyone tell me why" As you can imagine that's impossible as there are many many different models of ford. Edited by nice_lady at 1:24 pm, Sat 20 Feb nice_lady - 2021-02-20 13:23:00 |
| 10 | well for starters, if it's the paid version of malwarebytes then you have two security applications with real time scanning - guaranteed to slow down any PC... on top of that it could be... If it's a reasonably spec'd machine you might be wasting your money looking at a new pc. The number of times i see folks go buy new hardware and while transferring their data over, you can see almost instantly what was wrong with the old machine king1 - 2021-02-20 13:56:00 |
| 11 | cube_guy wrote: lol, gotta give him credit for trying I guess... Edited by king1 at 2:09 pm, Sat 20 Feb king1 - 2021-02-20 14:00:00 |
| 12 | king1 wrote:
We really don't. cube_guy - 2021-02-20 14:03:00 |
| 13 | Could be Windows XP, or Windows Vista, or Windows 8, or Windows 10? tygertung - 2021-02-20 14:20:00 |
| 14 | tygertung wrote:
Not on an AIO nice_lady - 2021-02-20 14:41:00 |
| 15 | coverworldnz wrote:
All in ones are , by design, a compromise. Much like a laptop and for the same reasons. They offer compactness and simplicity but as a result they pay in terms of available space, heat dissipation and therefore performance. They use comparatively lower energy parts than a stand alone desktop anbd they have more extreme thermal management in action in order for it to fit it in that small enclosure crammed up against other heat generators like the PSU, the monitor, the drives etc. This all comes at the cost of performance, both in terms of ability to process fast but also to process with out latency spikes, little glitches, smoothness is particularly affected by all that thermal management generating interrupts. My advice to anyone building or buying a pc for serious work is that size matters, the bigger the box the more breathing room you have for high performance. This is why for instance you can't buy a workstation class machine in a small form factor. So its a balancing act, how big can you accommodate vs what level of performance can you tolerate. At the end of the day thermodynamics is always the boss. Edited by ronaldo8 at 3:28 pm, Sat 20 Feb ronaldo8 - 2021-02-20 15:19:00 |
| 16 | That and not having a computer bloated with unneeded little background processes and running low on memory, storage and cpu cycles. Any and all of those will cripple even a decent machine. Lean and mean, which requires some cleaning, maintenance and discipline. I.E. not installing every little doodad to come along. A work computer should only have work critical software on it. ronaldo8 - 2021-02-20 15:26:00 |
