Re:Intel Launches Intel Core 14th Gen Desktop Processors for...
by nashashmi on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @07:30PM
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I put 32 GB ram in a 6 year old 7th gen i5, with usb c for dock.
And just the windows explorer is slow. Hurts my pace. Can’t figure out what is happening.
Re:Intel Launches Intel Core 14th Gen Desktop Processors for...
by qingcharles on Thursday October 19, 2023 @04:51PM
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Something else is going on there. I did that to a friend's laptop that was running epic slow for no reason, about the same age. I never had a chance to get to the bottom of it as it was lost in a fire, but there is something causing a hang-up.
I have a 6 year old 7th gen i5 laptop here with 16GB + SSD in it and it is smooth as butter with stock Windows 10 and about a billion things going on. I have it running two screens and I use it for editing 4K video, doing livestreaming etc. In fact, I have a second identical one with only 8GB in it and it is perfectly fine as long as it doesn't go to swap.
The SSD I put in is a $10 job from Amazon.
I wonder how to get some sort of system-wide profiler that will show where the hang-up is?
But anything at all that runs Windows 11 will almost certainly do you fine. Just make sure it has at least 8GB of RAM. That is the minimum I would use Windows 11 with. And an SSD.
I'm working on an old 2012 Lenovo here that I put 16GB RAM and an SSD in and I'm editing 4K video. It's not quick, but it will do it. Certainly works with me having literally 200 tabs open in Chrome, Visual Studio, Photoshop etc.