So recently I bought a hp compaq presario cq56 for £80 (only thing in my price range at the time), looked at a glance ok at 2.3ghz. It also came with a clean install of windows 10. However upon reflection I can barely have two youtube pages open without cpu running at 99%. This is not good enough as you will know. My memory usage at the same time is around 35% according to task manager so ram seems to be fine, I have added 3gb myself.(total 6gb)
I searched around and it doesnt look like I can overclock, or would want to. But I would like to hopefully upgrade the cpu(a friend mentioned "ultimate" upgrade kit? no idea what this is), how would I go about doing this and could anyone tell me what would be the best cpu I could put into this laptop. I would have about £100 to spend if the new cpu would be good enough.
My specs according to specky are as follows:
Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
CPU
AMD V140 58 °C
Champlain 45nm Technology
RAM
6.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 532MHz (7-7-7-20)
Motherboard
Hewlett-Packard 1604 (Socket S1G4)
Graphics
Generic PnP Monitor (1366x768@64Hz)
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series (HP)
Storage
298GB Hitachi HTS725032A9A364 SATA Disk Device (SATA) 35 °C
Another issue I think I may have is random system programs using rapidly changing amounts of my cpu, service host:local systems, system interrupts, windows audio device graph isolation, windows explorer and a few others all have rapidly changing cpu consumptions.(once again according to task manager).
I also have the harddrive from a samsung np3530EC running windows 8.1 and have swapped this harddrive into the cq56 just to test it out and it does seem to work, if this would make a difference.
Ps. Please dont suggest I buy a new laptop for now, This will be a funish project at least and I like the laptop in general. Plus I have star wars knights of the old republic 2 running, just not very quickly!
Ps. community here looks great, hope someone can help with my problem.
Thanks in advance! So you know, I'm not that good at computer tech, but I know the basics.(I think haha). I can try to provide more details if required.
I searched around and it doesnt look like I can overclock, or would want to. But I would like to hopefully upgrade the cpu(a friend mentioned "ultimate" upgrade kit? no idea what this is), how would I go about doing this and could anyone tell me what would be the best cpu I could put into this laptop. I would have about £100 to spend if the new cpu would be good enough.
My specs according to specky are as follows:
Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
CPU
AMD V140 58 °C
Champlain 45nm Technology
RAM
6.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 532MHz (7-7-7-20)
Motherboard
Hewlett-Packard 1604 (Socket S1G4)
Graphics
Generic PnP Monitor (1366x768@64Hz)
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series (HP)
Storage
298GB Hitachi HTS725032A9A364 SATA Disk Device (SATA) 35 °C
Another issue I think I may have is random system programs using rapidly changing amounts of my cpu, service host:local systems, system interrupts, windows audio device graph isolation, windows explorer and a few others all have rapidly changing cpu consumptions.(once again according to task manager).
I also have the harddrive from a samsung np3530EC running windows 8.1 and have swapped this harddrive into the cq56 just to test it out and it does seem to work, if this would make a difference.
Ps. Please dont suggest I buy a new laptop for now, This will be a funish project at least and I like the laptop in general. Plus I have star wars knights of the old republic 2 running, just not very quickly!
Ps. community here looks great, hope someone can help with my problem.
Thanks in advance! So you know, I'm not that good at computer tech, but I know the basics.(I think haha). I can try to provide more details if required.