I have this old laptop which I have been using for past 2 years. It works well except sometimes when I use programs like Photoshop and Eclipse, it takes a long time load. Also, there are some minor delays here and there as far as I can tell.
So, after researching a while, I thought upgrading it will be more economical than buying a new laptop. So, I went ahead with it. I have upgraded the RAM from 4GB to 8GB and install a Samsung Evo SSD to replace my old hitachi HDD.
After that, I can feel the faster boot time, loading etc. But the loading time for some of the programs hasn't improved much as I originally thought.
So, my question is is my CPU causing a bottleneck for the whole system?
Answer
Short answer is "most likely yes".
Long answer is:
You should be able to feel quite a big difference from the way it was before having upgraded the SSD and memory.
But seeing as you are having problems with some quite demanding programs specifically (Photoshop and Eclipse) I would guess the CPU could be a bottleneck here. However, loading programs is usually not all that CPU intensive, but more likely to put a strain on IO activity (memory and HDD/SSD).
I would suggest you run through the "optimizer" application that came with the SSD.
Alternatively at least check the following settings manually:
- Re-run the Windows Experience Index clasification (this also detects your new SSD and changes settings accordingly)
- Remove indexing from the C:\ drive (or whatever drive Windows is on)
- Make sure you have set virtual memory to the appripriate size (I would suggest a 8192 MB fixed swapfile)
But the i3 1.8 GHz CPU that's in your laptop is really not that fast, as you can clearly see on this chart and read in this article compared to other Intel CPUs of roughly same generation.
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