Question Choppy Performance Athlon 200GE while using general applications like browser, file explorer

[denimpawell]

Hello,

I upgraded my old PC with new Athlon 200GE, 16gb 3000 one stick and b350 GB motherboard. No graphic card. Windows 10 home installed in old SSD but intel one.
Also, I am using a 4K 28 inch monitor, which is pretty cool.

My problem is that an application performance like chrome or office application is pretty poor. There is a noticeable lags whenever loading something or showing outputs on them.
When I click window menu button, the menu pops up with little bit of lag. Overall, it is usable but reminds me of netbook when compared to my i5 8300h laptop, currently connected to same monitor.

Is this normal because it is low tier CPU? There is anyone on same CPU and please let me know how you feel on it.


Thanks
Jon

 

[rgd1101]

Fresh os install?
ram running at 3000? 2 stick would have been better

check cpu temp?

 

[NightHawkRMX]

No, the performance should be pretty snappy. The 200ge can even do some light e-sports games at 720p or even 1080p in really old titles.
I would make sure the OS install is fresh. If it isn't, I would reinstall the os.
Make sure ram is running at 3000mhz
I would see what clocks the CPU is running at.
Are drivers updated?

 

[mdd1963]

single RAM stick means running half of RAM bandwidth on an already 'not very fast' CPU....

Trade it for a pair of 8 GB sticks...

 

[denimpawell]

Thank you for an advise. Ya, it was fresh OS install. Driver/BIOS were updated.
Gaming performance is pretty good, League of legends runs pretty well but chrome or file explorer is getting bit slow sometime.

Duo is that faster than single RAM? I might try next month.

I can see difference when I switched from laptop to desktop.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Dual channel ram will speed up general usage and both cpu and gpu performance in games.
Im not sure if this is the cause of your issue tho.

 

[TechyInAZ]

Vega 3 can run 4k well? Just as a test, see if temporarily lowering your resolution to 1080P does anything.

 

[denimpawell]

I have been using for a few month. This CPU is sluggish when running Chrome or other browsers.
I installed two 8 gb rams instead one 16 gb.

For first 1 hour, it is pretty fast but after that, everything is getting slower.
Video is getting choppy and whatever I type, it is lagging and slow.

I close chrome entirely and start it again, then it runs ok for one hour and gets slow again afterward.

 

[damric]

Try moving your browser cache on a small (512MB) ramdisk. I suspect your SSD is slowing you down...probably getting over-filled with crap.