DELL M90 Window 7 -64bit (Slow?)

The video issues will only be issues if you wanted to use the Aero featured themes. They have to have Direct X 10 video cards. You should see similar performance.

The hard drive will make a difference. To over-generalize, you have 3 things going on with platter drives that affect performance - 1) rpm 2) data density 3) cache. 7200 rpm means 7200 reads around the disk a minute vs 5400 in slower drives. Data density means that a 750gb hard drive can read 3X the data per revolution as a 250gb drive when doing sequential reads and writes. Cache is how much data can be stored in faster ram. Smaller 8 and 16mb caches can help with delayed writes and maybe with small files that get read often. SSD hybrid drives with GB will be able to cache much more and that cache will survive reboots.

 

Before I change the hard drive I decided to re-paste the CPU also and clean and service the fans together with using I8kfanGUI. The system is now working between 30-60 C and runs great so far. I am going to try running some programs to give you guys further details.

Possible the hard drive is the next thing I will update.. maybe an SSD.

The problems seems to have been extensive over heating of the CPU/GPU and solidified Thermal-paste over the CPU and the GPU.

I would strongly suggest anyone who has a LAP-TOP of this age to open it re-paste the GPU/CPU and carefully clean the fans. The chances are that the Cooling paste would be solidified and the fans will be full of dust.

 

R ur drivers up to date? Or antivirus program slowing it down? Or Hard drive fragmented? Visual effects not set performance?