- Nov 27, 2014
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Hello everyone, I have been reading toms hardware for a few months now and i have to say i have never found a site as helpful as this. This time I needed to register because i wasn't sure how to best describe my problem..
I have a new PC setup which is very descent except the GPU which is an old gt 520 (1gb). I7 3930k, 16g ram, win7 64bit and also ubuntu.
Whenever I am on Linux I use libreoffice, Mozilla (I constantly have more than 30 tabs open) and chrome (at least as many tabs or more) and I have never encounter any problem.
But when I am on windows, there seem to be some lag spikes. I use the same browsers, with 2-3 tabs each and sometimes when I start the browser or a new tab I have to wait 2-3 mins during which time the browsers are not responding.
Example1:I start windows, I start Mozilla, seems to be loading, no response for 30seconds,then I start chrome, same thing. After a minute (with CPU load 1-2%) bam, both browsers pop up.
Ex2: I try to open some streaming links from chrome in new tabs. There is no response from browser, not even the mouse cursor changing when on a hyperlink. After 20+ seconds of no activity I SPAMED the link. After a minute and 10 secs 25+ tabs poped up, some of them completely loaded and running the stream perfectly. I can't explain it any better than that, it behaves as if CPU is over loaded even though it isn't and I get sudden random lag spikes, but only in windows environment. I don't really use any other applications/programs so I cant tell if this happens on browsers only, but I can say that eg I can't right click on desktop or open start menu during a lag spike. Happens to me like once every couple hours, rest of the time I have no problem.
Is there any chance this is GPU related? Also, is there any chance it is faulty hardware even though Ubuntu runs flawlessly? As a general purpose question I would like to ask, except for playing games/editing video, would my system benefit at all if I had a better GPU?
I apologize for my English, thank you all in advance!
I have a new PC setup which is very descent except the GPU which is an old gt 520 (1gb). I7 3930k, 16g ram, win7 64bit and also ubuntu.
Whenever I am on Linux I use libreoffice, Mozilla (I constantly have more than 30 tabs open) and chrome (at least as many tabs or more) and I have never encounter any problem.
But when I am on windows, there seem to be some lag spikes. I use the same browsers, with 2-3 tabs each and sometimes when I start the browser or a new tab I have to wait 2-3 mins during which time the browsers are not responding.
Example1:I start windows, I start Mozilla, seems to be loading, no response for 30seconds,then I start chrome, same thing. After a minute (with CPU load 1-2%) bam, both browsers pop up.
Ex2: I try to open some streaming links from chrome in new tabs. There is no response from browser, not even the mouse cursor changing when on a hyperlink. After 20+ seconds of no activity I SPAMED the link. After a minute and 10 secs 25+ tabs poped up, some of them completely loaded and running the stream perfectly. I can't explain it any better than that, it behaves as if CPU is over loaded even though it isn't and I get sudden random lag spikes, but only in windows environment. I don't really use any other applications/programs so I cant tell if this happens on browsers only, but I can say that eg I can't right click on desktop or open start menu during a lag spike. Happens to me like once every couple hours, rest of the time I have no problem.
Is there any chance this is GPU related? Also, is there any chance it is faulty hardware even though Ubuntu runs flawlessly? As a general purpose question I would like to ask, except for playing games/editing video, would my system benefit at all if I had a better GPU?
I apologize for my English, thank you all in advance!
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