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Why is Task Manager showing more than 100% CPU Usage? What does it mean?
I have a weird issue. This is the second time that I'm encountering this over the last 2-3 months.
My CPU Usage is constantly running between 120% and 200%... How? How is this possible? What does it ...
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my pc has become slow, it just gotten slower on its own
These are my computer's specs:
Intel core i5 3570
GT 710 DDR3
8GB ram
It may not be powerful by modern standards, but it can play some games , like Minecraft, kinda good. My pc can run it over ...
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Detect the origin for my computer's problems, probably hardware-related
In the past couple of weeks my computer shows more and more problems. I think it might be a hardware problem, since most of my setup is 13 years old and it worked before with the same OS. However, I ...
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Why does dmidecode return a higher number of banks than the number of memory channels supported by the CPU?
According to the wiki, a bank refers to the secondary structure of a DRAM chip, which is different from the bank mentioned in the dmidecode command. I am wondering what the relationship is between ...
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Software on Windows crashing/OOMing with RAM well below 100%
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (4th gen, 2016), and lately while working I've been noticing Chrome and PyCharm intermittently crashing.
Usually it seems like like a CPU spike or something causes ...
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High "System" CPU usage; unaccounted for Memory usage
I fresh reinstalled Windows 11 a couple months back, and for a while now it seems like there's some sort of memory leak (?) that causes high CPU usage by the "System" process, high memory ...
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PC won't post with 4 RAM sticks
I have a few question if possible.
I have an old system which has the following components: CPU: i7 6700K, motherboard: Asus H110M2 D3, and a GTX 1060 3GB.
I wanted to upgrade the RAM to 32 GB (since ...
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Why is faster pc i5:ram 4, ssd 256, core 4, then laptop i7: ram 16, ssd 500, core 10?
I have such a case and maybe you can help me, what is the reason?
I did a test, reading an excel file (310 MB) in python (pandas).
Laptop(IdeaPad Slim 5 16IRL8): i7, ram 16, ssd 500, core 10, 2.4 ghz, ...
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Lenovo Thinkpad with Windows 11 System Hangs Frequently
I am using Lenovo Thinkpad P14s since last 2 years and haven't faced any issues. Suddenly I have noticed that there seems to intermittent noticeable hang while working on light weight applications ...
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can't fully understand how the RAM modules speed works (related to the hardware limitations)
I'm building my first desktop computer and I've discovered lots of things. Some of them regarding the RAM modules speed:
I've seen that Intel specified in their official stats that the i7-14700K can ...
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BIOS Setup is showing Gliches in Half Screen in ASUS TUF F15 2021
My laptop with BIOS Screen with half screen flickering or not visible:
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BIOS American Megatrends Inc.
BIOS Version: FX506LH. 310
26/11/2021 (Bought on this date)
RAM: DDR4 16 GB
Graphics: NVIDIA ...
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Computer not booting with single RAM stick. Could Dual Channel be required?
I have just recently ordered new computer parts. In the motherboard and CPU spec, only dual channel are specified. Does that mean my computer may not be able to post and boot normally because I am ...
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RAM timing/frequency issues, impossible to enable XMP profile
The problem
My RAM is supposed to run in XMP 2.0 at 1600MHz with the following timings
CAS Latency: 16
RAS to CAS: 18
RAS precharge: 18
tRAS: 38
TRC: 56
As you can see there that's the expected ...
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thousands of errors on memtest86+
I recently started having random BSODs that coincided with a Windows installation that became increasingly unstable.
I upgraded the NVMe and reinstalled Windows from scratch.
BSODs are sadly still ...
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How to change the size of shared system memory In Windows 10?
I recently upgraded my laptop ram from 4gb ddr3 to 16gb ddr3.but my system shared memory is not increased so that i cannot increase my dedicated video ram more than 576mb.anyone help me to solve this ...
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