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    Question My Laptop is lagging despite having good specifications, how do i go about it?

    Well i see that its quite hard to determine why its happening, so I decided to do some tests and keep Task Manager open, it turns out my cpu keeps spiking up and averaging between 50% to 100% (If i keep discord, word and chrome open and running simultaneously, as for the ram its hard stuck at...
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    Question My Laptop is lagging despite having good specifications, how do i go about it?

    Hello, So yes I did mention this in the post but I guess I didn't elaborate on it so it's okay. I recently changed my thermal paste about 3 months ago (the issue persisted before that as well so I assumed that the thermals could have been the issue) so along with that I did some cleaning as...
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    Question My Laptop is lagging despite having good specifications, how do i go about it?

    Hello, so I don't carry my laptop that often outside since it's summer vacation and most of my work happens at home. So on average, I use my laptop for 10-12 hours and all those hours are plugged in, except for maybe an hour or two where I would unplug it and just sit in a different place just...
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    Question My Laptop is lagging despite having good specifications, how do i go about it?

    Hello everyone, I had this laptop for the last 5 years and it was functioning flawlessly, till about 5 months ago when for some unknown reason it started lagging. In gaming, I never experienced any lag except for thermal throttling which only occurs on high-end AAA games and not on other games...
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    Question Which upgrade is the better choice ?

    Thanks a lot for the information, now that I look at it, upgrading the RAM seems more viable as I often notice stuttering when I use Chrome, VSCode, and Discord (accompanied by a high RAM usage chart from Task Manager) so might go ahead with the RAM first. As for storage, the only game that I...
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    Question Which upgrade is the better choice ?

    So I have an ASUS TUF FX705DT (2019) laptop and here are its specs: CPU: Ryzen 7 3750H RAM: 16GB DDR4 (although it's 2666Mhz, it can only go up to 2400Mhz due to CPU limitation). GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1650 (Mobile) SSD: 256GB M.2 NVMe (main drive) HDD: 1TB 7200rpm (storage drive) WiFi card...
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    Question Should I get a Gaming mouse or stick to my old mouse

    Yes, you do have a solid point, thanks for expressing your POV, ill keep this in mind and will decide what to do, most likely I'll stick to the current mouse, but in the case future, some other issue rises from this mouse, then ill get a different one, depending on my budget, it'll be a gaming...
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    Question Should I get a Gaming mouse or stick to my old mouse

    True, you do have a point, but lately I've been gaming more often than usual, and this mouse is over 4 years old, give or take a few cause I have a vague remembrance of the purchase date, and it is kinda small for my hand, not too small to the point where my hand will be cramped if i use it for...
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    Question Should I get a Gaming mouse or stick to my old mouse

    Well, here are the pics of the mouse, I have also decided to take the pic of its spec as well Im currently located In India, Bangalore to be exact, and this mouse I purchased back in Saudi Arabia, it was cheap and gaming wasn't in my mind when I bought this, and I've been using it for 4 years ...
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    Question Should I get a Gaming mouse or stick to my old mouse

    Currently, I have a local company mouse, I don't know its name or what type of sensor it uses, but its been serving me well in the gaming experience, I play games like valorant, apex legends, COD warzone, etc (aka fast and strategy paced type games), I've heard from many that having a gaming...
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    [SOLVED] Can I use a new memory stick from a different company with an already existing old one from a different company

    So today I thought of upgrading my dad's laptop (Dell Inspiron 15 3521) cause of its slow speed and boot up, it's current specs are: 4GB DDR3 Ram 420GB Storage (Slim HDD) Intel Core i5 3317U Windows 7 Ultimate I thought of upgrading the windows to 10 and putting a new 240/120GB SSD (IDK which...
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    [SOLVED] Can I use a 3000mhz Ram into a 2933(Max) B460 Motherboard

    I am planning to get an Intel Core i5 10400 with MSI MAG B460 Tomahawk motherboard, the only issue is that its max support for RAM is 2933mhz, and unfortunately getting hands-on such RAM Is rare here, the only common ram I can find is a 3000mhz one, so can I use it on this motherboard? If so is...
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    [SOLVED] Thermal Throttling issues

    It's both, the GHz of CPU goes from 3.5-4GHz to 1.8GHz for about 4-6 seconds while playing the above-mentioned games which results in FPS Drops.
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    [SOLVED] Thermal Throttling issues

    I use IOBIT Game Booster to monitor temps and fps, (MSI Afterburner runs into an error that I can't find a solution) And I can confirm that it drops only when the CPU Hits 70 degree Celcius