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    Question SSD writing speed low and task manager shows sawtooth pattern

    So maybe it's a problem of my System drive, instead of the new one? The system drive is almost 80% full and is from HyperX, could this be the limiting factor?
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    Question SSD writing speed low and task manager shows sawtooth pattern

    The screenshot is from when it was installing through an already downloaded installer. I understand what you mean and you are right, for the first game I downloaded (a 100 gb download from steam) the drive was alternating between write and read, but it could do it at much higher speeds, and...
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    Question SSD writing speed low and task manager shows sawtooth pattern

    "installing" both when downloading games from Epic Games launcher, and when installing a game from an already downloaded installer. The first game I installed was downloaded from steam, could this be related to a different way of handling download files? Thanks
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    Question SSD writing speed low and task manager shows sawtooth pattern

    About 1/4 The system drive is on another drive which is 80% full
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    Question SSD writing speed low and task manager shows sawtooth pattern

    Hi all, Just bought a 500 GB SSD (MX500) for games, because the hard drive was too slow. Installed a first game (around 100 GB) and it worked well, with high, sometimes constant write speeds of 100/200 MB/s. The next game I'm currently installing is limiting the write speed to around 60 MB/s...
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    Question Question on SATA 3 vs SATA 2

    Hi all, I recently bought an SSD (Crucial MX500) to give my PC some faster storage instead of using my HDD that's become really slow for loading most games nowadays. I still have to install it. There's 4 SATA Ports on the motherboard, 2x 2.0 and 2x 3.0. it's an old model, so there's no Nvme...
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    [SOLVED] How to revert display driver to original?

    Hi all, I was trying to connect a Samsung SD300H monitor to my MSI Prestige laptop, to use it as external monitor. In the process of installing the official drivers for said monitor, my laptop seems not to have detected it while was connected via HDMI (the monitor was on but all black), and so...
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    [SOLVED] Strange LAN speed behaviour

    I found out what the problem was! It was related to a virtual VPN program called Hamachi. Many have been having issues with a bug that limits internet speeds. They haven't patched it yet, but the problem can be temporarily solved with the Windows command prompt. Here's the link to the...
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    [SOLVED] Strange LAN speed behaviour

    I have just updated my pc to 20H2 but there is absolutely no difference. I have updated my post with all the other information. I also tried booting windows in safe mode and doing a speedtest, but the results were not different. (a little side note; while I was downloading the windows update...
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    [SOLVED] Strange LAN speed behaviour

    I currently have 3 computers with windows 10 installed (2 laptops and 1 desktop) and I have a contract for Gigabit internet (1000down/200up mbit). On the two laptops, using a LAN connection, speed is just fine at around 850/900 mbit. On the other hand, my desktop pc build only gets to 100/150...
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    [SOLVED] slow internet speed on only one windows 10 computer

    I currently have 3 computers with windows 10 installed (2 laptops and 1 desktop) and I have a contract for Gigabit internet (1000mbit). On the two laptops, using a LAN connection, speed is just fine at around 850/900 mbit. On the other hand, my desktop pc build only gets to 100/150 mbit (also...