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March 7th, 2008 01:00
High Idle Memory Usage
I have a brand spanking new 1520 with 3Gb of ram, 2.2Ghz CPU, 250Gb HDD and 6600M GT video card running external 24" 2407 LCD at 1920*1200 and internal (albeit off) LCD at 1680 * 1050. My concern is that when everything is loaded (minus Defender, Sec Centre and a few uneeded services BUT with Trend 2008 Internet/Virus Suite and Aero/Sidebar on) the Laptop uses abut 35% CPU at idle......that's over a 1Gb!!
Does this seem excessive? What is everyone else's idle usage?
Let's not even bring up the subject of the 68!!!! processes running.
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yarddog983
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March 7th, 2008 01:00
Yes, that's normal for Vista. As I type this mesage with nothing else going on I'm using 35% (1.38 gb) of the 4 gigs RAM I have. Good ol Vista!
E-520
E-6600 Core2Duo @ 2.40 ghz
Four gigs Kingston 667 mhz RAM
Two 150 gig WD Raptors
Dual Boot Win XP MCE 2005 & Vista Ultimate x64
Two Sony DVD RW Optical Drives
EVGA 8600 GTS 512 mb Video
Auzentech X-Fi Prelude 7.1 Audio
ae38cb5bb8b0410
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March 7th, 2008 02:00
30% usage just turning it on for me, it's pretty normal.
ty_ger
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March 9th, 2008 23:00
15% of 2GB for me.....
...in XP.
You guys have been had! I wish everyone would just tell Microsoft that we don't want Vista and that we could be given the option to buy new systems with XP installed again; and that Microsoft would restore full XP product support and software updates.
EDIT:
LOL! I just thought about it...
Offering only Vista with new products is like a marketing ploy by Microsoft to increase sales of retail XP copies!!
ae38cb5bb8b0410
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March 10th, 2008 02:00
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion ty_ger.
I don't think I've been "had" by using Vista.
In my opinion though, your looking at a possible future system performance issues with your clocks.
PCI-E bus o'cd from 100mhz to 115mhz
Your 8800GT memory clock (assuming you have a reference card)
1800mhz reference
2000mhz reference limit of card
2070mhz your clock
Just my opinion
ty_ger
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March 10th, 2008 03:00
Thanks for be concerned.
My specs below are really misleading. Those are just the best figures I could run stably on this system.
The specifications of what I actually run are:
3.44GHz CPU
1,720MHz FSB
1,032MHz memory (have to bump CPU up to 3.53 to achieve the rated 1066MHz but the performance diff is little)
115MHz PCI-E (is this an item for concern)
640MHz GPU clock
960MHz video memory clock
I get about low 12,000 3dmark06 with this setup as above