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Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works

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Anon's PC works (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 days ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 99 points 4 days ago (1 children)

[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 29 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Appreciate the meme but yea that is one way to probably improve performance. Or upgrade the RAM, clean the fans, reapply thermal compound, clear out temporary files, disable unused services or reinstall Windows if they really need it just to run Chrome and Zoom which is all they do.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 days ago

Even just blowing out all the dust from a passive cooler (under the CPU fan) can make your system run a good 10°C cooler.

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

hardware isn't as impactful to performance as software imo, just getting rid of bloat services can improve the perceived performance for every day tasks a ton.

btw I don't really get why increasing the amount of ram is thought of as the first step by most normie consumers, if you have enough it's enough and even my 2gb machine runs everything fine

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You'd be amazed at the startup and program opening time gains on older computers' when you change in the HDD that is stuck at read/write speeds of 5MB/s for a SSD

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

oh yeah SSDs are great, but RAM, thermals, etc don't matter much

[–] freebee@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If RAM upgradable to dual channel it could still make a big difference

[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

This. I don't know how many people's PCs I've looked at where they have ddr, but only one stick of RAM....