My laptop is not performing as desired, please help.

Christopher Mitchell-lay · Nov 19, 2014

I have a HP 625 laptop. Here is the system information:

OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name CHRIS-PC
System Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
System Model HP 625
System Type x64-based PC
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) II P360 Dual-Core Processor, 2300 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Hewlett-Packard 68DVA Ver. F.20, 15/09/2011
SMBIOS Version 2.6
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United Kingdom
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
User Name CHRIS-PC\CHRIS
Time Zone GMT Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 3.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 2.74 GB
Available Physical Memory 1.24 GB
Total Virtual Memory 5.49 GB
Available Virtual Memory 3.42 GB

Running this website and a youtube video, here is the HWMonitor diagnostics:

Hewlett-Packard 1475:
CPUZ Temp... 49 - 71

AMD K10:
Core#0... 49 - 71
Core#1... 49-71
Powers= 19.57W
Battery: Current Volatge... 12.615V

It is heating up crazily and often overheats, I plan to replace the RAM with 8GB and possibly buy a new fan. I sit it on top of a USB powered laptop cooling station. I run alot of DAWs such as Ableton Live and Reaper.

Wisecracker · Nov 19, 2014

More RAMs (and an SSD) will help.

You likely need to re-seat the sink/fan on the CPU with some new TIM, and blow out all the dust/dirt. That laptop has some age on it.

boosted1g · Nov 19, 2014

Have you taken canned air and cleaned out the heatsink?
Have you done any system maintenance on it?

Then there is the simple fact that it has an aging AMD cpu and 3gb of ram so yes it is going to seem sluggish compared to most other PCs you might use

Calculagator · Nov 19, 2014

Cleaning it out and/or replacing a fan could help, but that CPU is just underpowered for modern use. Your CPU and GPU are probably running at close to 100% to process the youtube video. If that's the case, there is not much you can do.
I doubt that the memory increase will help. Press control-shift-escape at the same time to open the task manger. Click on the "Performance" tab to see how much memory you are using. If the green bar for memory use is all the way at the top then adding more memory could help. If it's not then adding more memory will make little difference.
On that same tab, you can see how much your processor is being used. If that is high during normal use, there is little you can do to keep things from overheating and slowing down.

sanjib tec traker · Nov 19, 2014

The most annoying problems with the most amd cpu the grow so :fou:

.i.e. so hot .even though u spend a lot for a good processor than u have to spend more on its coolers .u mast chk for clean heatsink and fan .Most importantly don't spend on 8GB ram for now.if u see a lot of cpu and ram process is going on chk for background applications running without ur knowledge and close them down.If ur prb is solved sure to notify me .till then good luck

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