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Twitch is slow on desktop but is fine on my laptop. Help?

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  • Desktops
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  • twitch
September 23, 2014 2:13:54 AM

So when I watch streams on twitch on my desktop, the video buffers a LOT whether the quality is set to medium or high. On the other hand, when I watch on my laptop, my surface pro 2, the high quality works fine, as in it doesn't buffer at all.

When I watch on my desktop, I use a LAN cable and on my surface I just use regular wifi.

It's only noticeable on twitch, loading YouTube or playing online games, my connection is fine whether it's on my desktop or laptop.

MIGHT it be a hard drive issue? Like my desktop's HDD is slower than it was hence it buffers? Cuz the surface is on an SSD so it's blazing fast. Besides my HDD is 3 years old, it's a WD Blue 1TB.Or is it like a driver issue or something? Please help!

Note: I'm running TWO 1920x1080 monitors on my desktop. But I just have 2 browsers up, 1 browser to watch twitch, the other to browse and whatever.

Desktop Specs:
i5-3470
Mobo Gigabyte H77M-D3H
16 GB Ram
GTX 770
HDD WD Blue 1TB

Surface Pro 2 Specs:
i5-4200
4GB Ram
128 GB SSD

Thanks guys!!!

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