Solved Performance Indicators and % ???

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EXOTICA

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Hi guys, This might sound like a silly questions but dont burn the newbie to Vista!
I have just set up my two Vista systems and would like to know what the rest of you get as far as your CPU and RAM% are concerned.

On my small Benq joybook it hovers at 55%cpu and 50%ram.

On my Dragon it hovers at 2%cpu and 55% ram at idle.

Any help and info would be great. Ide like to try and reduce the cpu on the Benq obviously as well as the ram on both machines.

Both machine are quite fresh, not really loaded with software. Running N360 on both machines.

Look forward to some help and ideas.

thank you.
 

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can you tell us how much ram you have on both systems and what cpu's your running too?

for the benq you might want to look at what apps are running to take up that much of your cpu at idle as well as the ram. in task manager

for your dragon same thing and are you running dream scene? that chews ram with that on my ram hovers at 50% off it goes to around 30%
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    me
    CPU
    intel Q6600 @3.0Ghz
    Motherboard
    gigabyte EP35C DS3R
    Memory
    8 GB OCZ 1066 HPC REAPER
    Graphics Card(s)
    Sapphire 4870 HD 1024mb gddr5
    Monitor(s) Displays
    lg flatron 20.1
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    western digital 350gb
    samsung spinpoint 120gb
    PSU
    900w
    Case
    thermaltake aguila
    Cooling
    2x 120mm 2x 10cm
...thanks for the reply mate. On the Benq im funning the Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 1.66ghz and 1.5gig ram on the Dragon Intel Extreme X9000 with 4gig ram.

Not running Dream /scene and yes mines about 30% also.


gazz496 said:
can you tell us how much ram you have on both systems and what cpu's your running too?

for the benq you might want to look at what apps are running to take up that much of your cpu at idle as well as the ram. in task manager

for your dragon same thing and are you running dream scene? that chews ram with that on my ram hovers at 50% off it goes to around 30%
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Vista operates best with at least 2GB RAM. I have 4GB in my machine and it idles around 0% or 1% CPU with Quad Core and about 21% on RAM.

you should add ram to the benQ
 

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  • CPU
    Q9650 E0 4.0 GHz @1.304v
    Motherboard
    eVGA 750i FTW
    Memory
    2x2GB Corsair Dominator PC2-8500C5D
    Graphics Card(s)
    eVGA/MSI GTX 260 SLI
    Sound Card
    X-Fi XtremeGamer
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung T240 & 226BW
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1200 & 1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    Seagate Cuda 500GB 32mb Cache SATA 7200.(11) + 500GB Seagate Cuda External eSATA, USB, FW400
    PSU
    PC P&C 750w Silencer PSU
    Case
    CoolerMaster HAF 932 (Water-Cooled)
    Cooling
    Plenty of Fans, and a few 230mm Fans
    Keyboard
    Logitech G11
    Mouse
    Logitech MX-518
    Other Info
    ASUS 20x Optical, Bose Companion 3, ATH-AD500 Cans :), Patriot Xporter 16GB Flash Drive (Very Fast), & Sandisk Micro 8GB.

    Nikon D40 DSLR with 18-105mm VR & 55-200mm VR
gunther's right.....

my machine idles @ 5-10% with dream scene enabled
your benq joybook has a problem....

its either a lac of ram causing the CPU to work far harder....
or as gazz496 stated you may want to check the task manager for a rouge process swallowing power..??

my machine currently has 3gb (1 stick died) & its super responsive
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i still maintain low spec laptops should NEVER run vista...;)
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    ME.....
    CPU
    Q9450 @ 3.6ghz
    Motherboard
    P5K PREMIUM
    Memory
    8GB 1066mhz buffalo firestix
    Graphics Card(s)
    HD 5970
    Monitor(s) Displays
    20'' syncmaster
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    160GB 7200RPM SEAGATE BARRACUDA IDE
    160GB 7200RPM SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA 2
    PSU
    XCILIO 850w
    Case
    unknown ATX
    Cooling
    Arctic cooler pro 775
    Keyboard
    logitech EX110
    Mouse
    logitech cordless optical
    Internet Speed
    2mb
go with gunthers recomendation for the benq for more ram.

as for the dragon i would be looking at what apps you've got running at startup see if there are apps you don't need that are running.
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    me
    CPU
    intel Q6600 @3.0Ghz
    Motherboard
    gigabyte EP35C DS3R
    Memory
    8 GB OCZ 1066 HPC REAPER
    Graphics Card(s)
    Sapphire 4870 HD 1024mb gddr5
    Monitor(s) Displays
    lg flatron 20.1
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    western digital 350gb
    samsung spinpoint 120gb
    PSU
    900w
    Case
    thermaltake aguila
    Cooling
    2x 120mm 2x 10cm
I have 4GB of RAM and vista is currently using 1% CPU and 30% RAM. This leads me to believe it takes a little more than 1GB for itself. So if you only had 1GB...>_>.
 

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  • CPU
    Intel QX6600
    Motherboard
    EVGA 122-CK-NF68-A1
    Memory
    4GB Crucial Ballistx PC26400
    Graphics Card(s)
    8800GTX 768MB
    Hard Drives
    WD Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS
    Raptor X 150GB
your welcome. glad you fixed it. might wanna add more ram anyways.

as XP used about 350 or so MB RAM on idle.. and vista uses over 700MB of RAM idle.. thats doing NOTHING.. so you do one thing bigger than opening My Computer and your at all 1GB.. thats why vista should have a "requirement" of at least 2GB in all machines sold with it.

I'd recommend 2GB for sure, and 4GB to be safe.
 

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  • CPU
    Q9650 E0 4.0 GHz @1.304v
    Motherboard
    eVGA 750i FTW
    Memory
    2x2GB Corsair Dominator PC2-8500C5D
    Graphics Card(s)
    eVGA/MSI GTX 260 SLI
    Sound Card
    X-Fi XtremeGamer
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung T240 & 226BW
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1200 & 1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    Seagate Cuda 500GB 32mb Cache SATA 7200.(11) + 500GB Seagate Cuda External eSATA, USB, FW400
    PSU
    PC P&C 750w Silencer PSU
    Case
    CoolerMaster HAF 932 (Water-Cooled)
    Cooling
    Plenty of Fans, and a few 230mm Fans
    Keyboard
    Logitech G11
    Mouse
    Logitech MX-518
    Other Info
    ASUS 20x Optical, Bose Companion 3, ATH-AD500 Cans :), Patriot Xporter 16GB Flash Drive (Very Fast), & Sandisk Micro 8GB.

    Nikon D40 DSLR with 18-105mm VR & 55-200mm VR
The RAM usage seems understandable, but the CPU usage is too high for being "idle"...

I'll try to test it later. I'll leave my PC with 1GB and see what happens, I'm pretty sure it won't be 50% CPU...

It would be good to know the processes running when you leave that computer "idle"...

#Edit:

Alright, I've done the test. All fancy stuff on, except DreamScene. Not many things on the Sidebar. No extra software loaded at startup, like messengers, anti-virus and alike.

Basicly, after boot with only 1GB RAM, I've let the computer set for around 5 minutes... (I went to make me some tea and came back)

Memory Usage: 57%
Cpu Usage: 5% Averange, 10% top.

CPU: AMD 3500+ 2.2Ghz (OC 2.7Ghz)
RAM: 1GB

Closing the Sidebar didn't change much what I was seeing, just 1% drop on memory usage.

It was more smooth than what I expected, I think a PC ment for only office tasks could do well with 1GB only. (although putting another GB is rather cheap)

Nevertheless, tried to run Neverwinter Nights 2 and it sounded like it was crying... T.T
 
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...excellent guys. All is all well now and thanks again. The dragon is now idle at 0%cpu and 35%mem, woohoo. Efficient system. Now for the windows experience index. Benq is 2.5 understandable, the dragon is a flat 5.

How does one now improve on this?
What makes for a better index score?

The dragon is running the X9000 intel, 2x320gig 7200rpm drives, wuxga display and nvidia 8800m gts graphics.
 

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