How to Identify the 'Bottleneck' on my PC

darren13

darren13

darren13

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Hello all,

Just wondered if anyone had any general advice on how to identify the thing that's slowing things up the worst on my PC?

At the moment I have Nvidia's System Monitor, All CPU Monitor, Speedfan and EVGA Precision.

The trouble is, I can't see any processor, or the RAM maxing out (say, while opening DW CS4, Premiere Pro CS4, Illustrator CS4 and Photoshop CS4 all at the same time), so I'm thinking the bottleneck might be my Hard Drive speed?

Nvidia shows Disk Write/Disk Read though, and they're really low percentages when I'm opening up the above programmes....

Even though the Ram usage only goes up to about 3Gb (6Gb installed) during opening the above, could the speed of the ram be a factor? I have 2 x 2Gb at 800Mhz, and 2 x 1Gb at 633Mhz, so I know it clocks down to the slowest.

Any advice gratefully received!
Thanks,
Darren.
 
Is your comp painfully slow? Do you dislike using it it's so slow? If not who cares!

I used to be all into that but i think it's just a waste of time. When your comp is getting a bit slow that's when you do that sorta thing! Think of it not having to use a lot of RAM as a good thing, more for other programs!
 
Hey Boscoe,

No, it's not painfully slow now, but I've been upgrading as I do a lot of work on it all day, every day - and if I can save a few minutes many times a day x week x month x year....= more work done, faster, more money in the pot for Tiny Tim's new crutches at Christmas!

So that's why I'm trying to identify the slowest performing parts of this machine at the moment ;-)

Thanks,
Darren.
 
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