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January 12th, 2015 21:00
Very poor performance with more than one application running
I have to say this system BLOWS. Running only WOW and a browser and system pegs at 80-90% Disk I/O and 75% memory. So naturally game becomes unstable. locks, video freezes sound chopping. For the price I paid, I know Doghouse systems could do better.
Alienware Area 51 R2 8gb of mem. tb HD toshiba 7200 rpm.
I think I should have upgrade memory and HD rather than Video card. Because at best this is system can't handle basic gaming.
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edhensley
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January 15th, 2015 08:00
Prior to posting, I had already done the basic
Troubleshooting sets. System is well within all temps. Virus sCanning as well. Ran Alienware diags as well all returned system normal.
Now looking at applications gaming with wow is not high end graphics nor procession.
8gb of ram should be fIne. 7200rpm disk is basic.
Seeing high consumption of memory near 100% of the time and disk access at or near 100% randomly through the night leads me to think either swap/page file or disk I/o.
Milena M458
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January 15th, 2015 08:00
I will recommend you to check the system temperatures (CPU and video card) as well check if there are other heavy programs running in the background.
It will great to run a virus scan and if the issue persists perform a clean boot to see if there is a program that can be causing the system to be slow.
On this article you will find some other troubleshooting steps that you can follow.
laserman778
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January 15th, 2015 13:00
Look in task manager under processes. See if "Anti Malware Services Executable" or "Superfetch" is taking up high disk usage. This was a problem occurring on my XPS L502X and turning those off helped lower disk usage. You can turn those off by typing "services.msc" into the search bar, and then scrolling through the list of services until you find them. Once you find them, set them both to manual startup. Hope this helps!
-Brandon