Random question. simple task like solitaire is slow/laggy???

[tdubb21]

Built a new pc and gave my old pc to my dad. It is a plenty capable computer (i5 2500K, 4gb ram, 1gb video card, 120gb ssd). All he uses it for is solitaire type games and internet/youtube. However he was telling me that he got on last night and that cards were moving super slow and the song they made was streched out aka laggy.

Before I gave it to him it was my main computer. I just changed the ram out and put the old video card back in it. Does the mother board still think the old ram is in there?

What could be causing this? Has the ram kicked the bucket? He is on a 2 week old install of windows 7 64bit.

Any input would be appreciated. Thanks for your time

 

[Rogue Leader]

Has he downloaded anything? Antivirus cranking? Windows Updates?

 

[tdubb21]

I don't believe he has downloaded anything at all. It was weird though, I went into device manager and had windows do an automatic search for a audio driver update and it froze. went to task manager and looked at performance and the ram was almost maxed??

 

[Dunlop0078]

Task manager can tell you a lot. Could be a few things his cpu usage could be too high maybe he has too many programs launching at startup (unlikely with a brand new OS) or something else is pounding the cpu at idle, ram is being used up by something could be a memory leak or again he has too many programs launching on startup, disk usage could be pinned at 100% I have seen that a lot lately it can have many different causes, overheating, or even a virus. I doubt its a hardware issue if the ram was bad it likely wouldn't work at all or you would have a lot more issues than just a slow computer.

 

[Archaic59]

He doesn't even need the video card for what he's doing. Try removing it and running on iGPU and see how it does.

 

[tdubb21]

hmm, ok I will try that this evening. that video card should be good though, worked fine when I pulled it from my cpu