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Area-51m R1, way under performing?
Recently my 9 month old Area-51m R1 has been really slow. Like super slow. Its got a 2070 and an i9.
I ran a benchmark https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/38176327 and its in the 4th percentile.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
Also I have been capped at 50 kbps with a 10 mbps internet service.
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Posted January 10th, 2021 05:00
Welcome to the Dell Community @Broman96
Here are a few things you can try to increase system performance!!!
- In “System Properties” set Performance to “Adjust for Best Performance”
- Then adjust “Virtual Memory” as needed. “More is better but it uses Hard Drive space”
- Reboot.
- Do a “Disk Cleanup”
- Then a “Disk Defragmentation” (Skip if SSD is installed)
- Open an Administrative Command Prompt and Run chkdsk c:/f “Yes to run after reboot”
- Reboot.
Best regards,
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Posted January 10th, 2021 07:00
Hi @Broman96 welcome to this user to user forum.
Hopefully the Dell SupportAssist application has been installed and your version also has the option to troubleshoot slow performance, see following image.
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Posted January 9th, 2021 11:00
I dont have this model Alienware, but I think the reason why your pc is under-performing it's because you laptop is thermal throttling. If you havent replaced the stock thermal paste on the cpu and gpu I
higly recommand that you do. Get Thermal grizzly kryonaut or Noctua NT-H-2. Good luck.