Hello all. I recently upgraded my PC, and switched to Windows 8.1 Pro in the process. I replaced the Motherboard, CPU, RAM, System Hard Drive, and operating system. The new system is a Gigabyte Sniper G1 Z97 MB, Intel 4670K, 16 GB DDR 3 2133 RAM, and a Samsung Evo 256GB Solid state drive. I was expecting a solid performance gains, but have been experiencing exactly the opposite.
I seem to have an issue with the memory. If I open multiple windows in Google chrome, or for example run a torrent program, they eat up all of the RAM in no time flat and the system bogs horribly. I have Qbittorrent set to throttle upload speed to less than 200KBPS, so that should not be an issue. It starts out looking fine, but then suddenly it will be at 95% plus RAM usage. Closing Chrome or Qbittorrent does nothing to releave the situation, the only thing that helps is a reboot. If you leave it go, after a few minutes it becomes completely unresponsive, and I have to reboot using the reset button in order to proceed, as I can't even get it to restart from the menu. These are all things I managed fine with the old PC, only occasionally running into lag when I had a ton of windows open or something like that, and never experiencing the lag I see now.
I have noticed performance issues even with very little going on. Dragging windows around in Chrome gets really laggy, with the window following the mouse with a half second of delay or more at times.
Another issue is just an annoyance, but it is a big one. I have 2 spinning platter storage drives, and since the switch to windows 8 they make constant clicking noises, often at times when they should not even be in use. I have the power plan settings adjusted so they should never be powered down(180 Min), but they still behave as if they are constantly powering down and then restarting, giving the loud audible click each time they do. This is especially annoying when I navigate files, as each time I select a file to see properties, I get a loud click from the hard drive. It does this even when I am looking at files on the solid state drive. With my old PC and windows 7, this was initially a problem only when I had been working off the C drive for a while and then attempted to access something from the storage drives. Then I would get a pause, one loud click, and then I was good. Now it's clicking every time I select a file it seems.
Any help would be appreciated.
I seem to have an issue with the memory. If I open multiple windows in Google chrome, or for example run a torrent program, they eat up all of the RAM in no time flat and the system bogs horribly. I have Qbittorrent set to throttle upload speed to less than 200KBPS, so that should not be an issue. It starts out looking fine, but then suddenly it will be at 95% plus RAM usage. Closing Chrome or Qbittorrent does nothing to releave the situation, the only thing that helps is a reboot. If you leave it go, after a few minutes it becomes completely unresponsive, and I have to reboot using the reset button in order to proceed, as I can't even get it to restart from the menu. These are all things I managed fine with the old PC, only occasionally running into lag when I had a ton of windows open or something like that, and never experiencing the lag I see now.
I have noticed performance issues even with very little going on. Dragging windows around in Chrome gets really laggy, with the window following the mouse with a half second of delay or more at times.
Another issue is just an annoyance, but it is a big one. I have 2 spinning platter storage drives, and since the switch to windows 8 they make constant clicking noises, often at times when they should not even be in use. I have the power plan settings adjusted so they should never be powered down(180 Min), but they still behave as if they are constantly powering down and then restarting, giving the loud audible click each time they do. This is especially annoying when I navigate files, as each time I select a file to see properties, I get a loud click from the hard drive. It does this even when I am looking at files on the solid state drive. With my old PC and windows 7, this was initially a problem only when I had been working off the C drive for a while and then attempted to access something from the storage drives. Then I would get a pause, one loud click, and then I was good. Now it's clicking every time I select a file it seems.
Any help would be appreciated.