- Mar 30, 2012
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I just finished formatting an old - but not that old - eMachines ET133 my friend gave me: she says the computer was painfully slow, to the point where it was nearly impossibile to use it. She was right!
The thing has 4 gigs of RAM, an integrated Nvidia GPU (GeForce 6150SE), a fairly decent 320GB 7300RMP WD hard drive and a CPU which I believe is the reason of the insane slowness: an AMD Athlon 2650e, single core processor clocked at 1.60 Ghz.
It is crap, like, real crap: Windows 8 - the OS I choose to replace Windows 7 - struggles even while launching the Control Panel, despite the fact that I spent hours tuning the system by disabling unused services and features. Still, it takes 5 seconds for Internet Explorer to start.
It seems like the CPU usage is always at 100%, no matter what I'm doing.
Do you guys think that this is driver related issue? Windows 8 is not officially supported on this computer according to the eMachines website, but the OS managed to find every driver for the hardware with no problem whatsoever...
Is it because I used a 32 bit version of Windows 8? I know that it has 4 gigs of RAM, but the CPU was so weak that I thought that being able to use 3.75GB out of 4 was a reasonable loss considering that a 64 bit installation would be even heavier on the processor...
Is there anything else I can try? Windows XP is not supported anymore, Linux is way too difficult for my friend and Windows 7 should not be faster then 8, at least in theory...
The thing has 4 gigs of RAM, an integrated Nvidia GPU (GeForce 6150SE), a fairly decent 320GB 7300RMP WD hard drive and a CPU which I believe is the reason of the insane slowness: an AMD Athlon 2650e, single core processor clocked at 1.60 Ghz.
It is crap, like, real crap: Windows 8 - the OS I choose to replace Windows 7 - struggles even while launching the Control Panel, despite the fact that I spent hours tuning the system by disabling unused services and features. Still, it takes 5 seconds for Internet Explorer to start.
It seems like the CPU usage is always at 100%, no matter what I'm doing.
Do you guys think that this is driver related issue? Windows 8 is not officially supported on this computer according to the eMachines website, but the OS managed to find every driver for the hardware with no problem whatsoever...
Is it because I used a 32 bit version of Windows 8? I know that it has 4 gigs of RAM, but the CPU was so weak that I thought that being able to use 3.75GB out of 4 was a reasonable loss considering that a 64 bit installation would be even heavier on the processor...
Is there anything else I can try? Windows XP is not supported anymore, Linux is way too difficult for my friend and Windows 7 should not be faster then 8, at least in theory...
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