Occasional poor performance on new Sandybridge build

kissenger · 16 Feb 2012 at 23:26

My new system is great most of the time. Runs BF3 like a dream. However, it's weird because in some situations my old Q6600/780i build performed better, such as when I'm browsing the internet and I've got a lot of tabs open. Sometimes my browser freezes up and I have to restart it and in some really bad situations my whole system slows to a crawl. Does anyone know why this might be? It's kind of frustrating because I spent all this money on my new stuff so I feel like it should be faster all-round.

I'm running Windows 7 on a Asus Gene-Z Z68 board, a i5 2500k, 8GB G.Skill Ripjaws.X ram, and a GTX 570 GPU.

smithy83 · 16 Feb 2012 at 23:34

i would reinstall the browser or try another first firefox or chrome

also maybe do a test on your memory

kissenger · 16 Feb 2012 at 23:41

smithy83 said:
i would reinstall the browser or try another first firefox or chrome

also maybe do a test on your memory

Never tested my memory before. I take it Memtest is what I'll need?

smithy83 · 16 Feb 2012 at 23:58

kissenger said:
Never tested my memory before. I take it Memtest is what I'll need?

yep Memtest86 worth a shot

my pc performance in firefox always use to slow down i had a lot of tabs open chrome tho i don't have that problem (haven't used firefox in like 2 years)

edit also open up task manager and see if there is something hogging your system

reddev85 · 17 Feb 2012 at 00:03

Are you running an SSD or a mechanical drive? I've seen random slowness and freezing caused by a drive on its way out.

kissenger · 17 Feb 2012 at 00:07

reddev85 said:
Are you running an SSD or a mechanical drive? I've seen random slowness and freezing caused by a drive on its way out.

I'm running an SSD as primary and with an old HDD for storing movies, etc.

reddev85 · 17 Feb 2012 at 00:12

Ah, well there goes that theory, I think SSDs either work properly, or die completely.

Socrates470BC · 17 Feb 2012 at 00:21

Have you tried more than browser?

Is it just one browser that is giving you problems, if so which browser?

OptimaLnrg · 17 Feb 2012 at 00:39

You could try this:

control panel - system and security - power options

change balanced plan settings

change advanced power settings

hard disk turn off after [enter 0]

This fixed freezes and lockups/slow downs for me..

Not sure if it's reccomended, meh.

Martini1991 · 17 Feb 2012 at 00:45

Are you using firefox?

kissenger · 17 Feb 2012 at 03:05

Martini1991 said:
Are you using firefox?

Using Chrome.