Hello,
I've had my 5680 for around a week now and I'm really having a problem with the load times with software. Heck even pressing the start button gives me a one or two second delay.
It has a 2.4C Processor and 512 of RAM. I'm assuming its the hard drive since it is only 4200 RPM. (40 Gig.)
Does anyone have any other suggestions before I spend more money speeding this computer up?
Should I get an internal drive or get an external one. (I don't mind the external drive, I can use the internal as a scratch/cache disk and use the external usb 2.0 drive to actually run the software.)
Or is it best to just get an internal 5400 RPM drive. I think an external 7200 RPM with 8mb cache would be better though in terms of performance.
I doubt the memory could be the problem, I ran some tests and it seems to give good results.
My desktop has the same processor, yet has raid and a gig of pc3500 memory and it flies. Even when this desktop had 512 of RAM it was way faster than the laptop.
Any ideas would be appreciated. I just can't work with it if every time I press a button in Dreamweaver or Photoshop I have to wait a couple of seconds for it to respond. I really hope this isn't a heat issue. (Overheating, thus the processor throttles to slower speeds.)
Is there any way to get a temperature reading from the CPU?
I've had my 5680 for around a week now and I'm really having a problem with the load times with software. Heck even pressing the start button gives me a one or two second delay.
It has a 2.4C Processor and 512 of RAM. I'm assuming its the hard drive since it is only 4200 RPM. (40 Gig.)
Does anyone have any other suggestions before I spend more money speeding this computer up?
Should I get an internal drive or get an external one. (I don't mind the external drive, I can use the internal as a scratch/cache disk and use the external usb 2.0 drive to actually run the software.)
Or is it best to just get an internal 5400 RPM drive. I think an external 7200 RPM with 8mb cache would be better though in terms of performance.
I doubt the memory could be the problem, I ran some tests and it seems to give good results.
My desktop has the same processor, yet has raid and a gig of pc3500 memory and it flies. Even when this desktop had 512 of RAM it was way faster than the laptop.
Any ideas would be appreciated. I just can't work with it if every time I press a button in Dreamweaver or Photoshop I have to wait a couple of seconds for it to respond. I really hope this isn't a heat issue. (Overheating, thus the processor throttles to slower speeds.)
Is there any way to get a temperature reading from the CPU?
