Optimize Windows 7 Under a Crappy CPU ?

[hellrazor]

I know I'm probably a bit late, but I'll have you know I've had 64-bit Windows 7 running on an Athlon64 3200+ with 4 GB of DDR400 (which may or may not have been running at DDR333 at the time due to one of the sticks existing in a state of full retardedness) and I never had any of the problems you are describing.

 

[kn00tcn]

why is taskhost.exe using up so much cpu? i suppose an actual gfx card should help

 

[thebluebumblebee]

This is an AMD system. Are there any specific AMD patches that the OS needs? I know there were for XP.

 

[Melvis]

Ill tell you right now Memory is a problem. Ive had one of my systems here that originally ran 2GB of memory running windows 7 pro with onboard GPU (4250) and it said it had free 1GB of that 2GB of memory. ish. But the system was SLOW. Upgraded it to 4GB of memory and the system is now TWICE as fast. Windows 7 loves memory, give it more and you will see an improvement for sure.

CPU wise the old single core is not realy up to the task these days, it would run better on XP though. I built a mate a system with a AMD 3700+ in it, upgraded the memory from 2GB to 4GB and is running a 8600GT. He complained all the time that his computer was slow on facebook. I checked it out and the CPU was spiking all the time at 100% when scrolling on facebook, it just couldn't keep up. Upgraded it to a X2 4600+ and I haven't heard from him since. Facebook now runs smooth etc.

This was all typed up on a Windows XP machine with a FX-57, 2GB of memory and a 9600GT and its just keeping up now, but still laggy in some areas on the net. The single core days are pretty much over unless your running a 4GHz Athlon lol

 

[Sempron Guy]

My sister's single core Atom based netbook with 2GB ram has been running Win 7 for 2 years w/o issues you've been describing. I'd assume your processor is faster than any single core first gen atom.

 

[Melvis]

This is an AMD system. Are there any specific AMD patches that the OS needs? I know there was for XP.

That was for the older socket A Athlon XP's and the very first Dual cores from socket 939 only.

 

[newtekie1]

You know, I noticed in the first pic that the nforce driver was an older version and labelled for Vista. What motherboard is in this computer, or at least what chipset and IGP(if it has one). This could be an issue of there just being a crappy driver for the chipset/IGP which is causing the lag.

 

[RoutedScripter]

It didn't had a GPU at all, it's all integrated. This was a 2006 PC so i had no idea, plus I never had Winforce mobos or Nvidia hardware at all, I had gigabyte and now Asus mobo, along with radeons.

Yes those are vista drivers, because they were the closest to win7. It was a desperate attemtp to keep the PC for some web stuff for a few months or years until it blows up.

Didn't see these messages, anyways, the PC continued to work for some weeks after the HDD basically was nearing death so it corrupted the boot, the boot was unfixable via recovery console so the friend who used this PC just occasionally when moving sometimes from another city here, decided to sell it in spare parts, not much but better than nothing, so that's the story.

I just came here to see my CPUz pic to actually describe what's being sold, i forgot what was the CPU model, since I'm not going to separate that from the mobo.