Recent content by acolwill

Hence going back to the original query. The chassis is known to be reliable and has good cooling, yet with there being quite a number of machines out there that *do* have thermal issues which have either have had user replaced thermal paste or RMA's to do the same, and conversely a similar...

Done some benchmarks for Arkham City GOTY. Default settings, with DX11 enabled. Turbo Boost Disabled: TB Enabled: XTU Monitoring with Turbo Boost enabled: With TB enabled, it regularly power, EDP or thermal throttles *regardless* on what you're doing. XTU Monitoring with TB disabled...

I'm always open to other scenarios, have been using PC's for over 25 years - nothing is ever clear-cut, yet some things are as simple as turning it off and on again. If there's a "proper" way to do something, let me know. With regards to temperatures, there's also a probable equal amount of...

If this was a normal laptop CPU I would agree, however Intel flat-out lie by omission when it comes to the power consumption and thus thermals for their 'performance' laptop CPU's. The CPU in question has a TDP of 45w, except when under turbo boost it has free reign to draw 90w... I believe the...

Not sure if you've re-pasted your Recoil III, if not you could try what I did with mine. Enter BIOS and drop CPU voltage by 0.1v, iGFX voltage by 0.05v Install and run Intel XTU. Disable Turbo Boost. Disable Gaming Centre. Fans spin up as normal when playing games, but temps never usually go...

Inacessable boot device. The SSD either isn't marked as active or has different partition ID than what the BCD is expecting. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 Just download the media creation tool and install fresh...

Why would you want to modify the partition sizes when you perform the fresh install onto the SSD? There's no tangeable benefit to changing your partition sizes these days. Additionally, you're better off having a blank drive to install Windows onto instead of pre-creating partitions... having...

As previously suspected, the queue depths there indicate the drive is overwhelmed. My original suggestions to replace the HDD with an SSD and increase the sysem memory to 8GB still stand.

https://hdd.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/784/TOSHIBA-MQ01ABD100 User benchmarks of the drive show it's very capable at random I/O but utterly crap at sequential...

Just had a thought... If you want to stop windows from caching disk writes, turn it off. You won't need to use that cache purge task... p.s. I have write-cache disabled because I'm powered through a UPS :)

Purging the cached memory will inevitably dump it to page file, and given your hard disk is a major bottleneck then it's bound to hang the machine. I've just done the same thing you've done on my machine: Except this is a 17GB update. Disk active time spiked as it was starting the download...

For the sake of £35, I wouldn't be running a background task to purge cached ram every 30 seconds... just my personal opinion... I've just run a test on my rig here; unsuspended all of my chrome tabs Cached pool doubled.. Although not a real world test as I arguably have "too much" RAM.

Showed this article to a colleague at my old place of work as he believed that running a "memory defragmenter" on the servers we managed was a great idea. https://www.howtogeek.com/171424/why-memory-optimizers-and-ram-boosters-are-worse-than-useless/

My other half has a Lenovo Ideapad 120s, it's a Pentium N4200 with 4GB ram and a 64GB EMMC. Never has it had the kind of issues your machine has encountered... Arguably it's got a superior processor and storage however it's still got 4GB RAM. Screenies taken whilst checking for Windows updates.

I'll be honest. I don't think there's anything actually wrong with the machine. CPU is a dual core device with a TDP of ~10 watts, it's ultra low power. HDD is one of the slowest modern mechanical drives you can actually buy. Motherboard only has 1 memory slot and can only be upgraded to 8GB...