Is There Something Wrong in my PC

[gameranand]

Guys I found something weired lately in my PC. I used to play games at decent frame rates some weeks back and now they are giving frame drops and My PC is kind of slow.

Here are my PC Specs
Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 2.00 GHz
Intel DG965RY Mobo
2GB DDR2 667MHZ RAM
320GB + 2TB HDD
Sapphire Radeon 5770

So I did some tests on my PC and found out that nothing is wrong but still I am getting a bad feeling that something is wrong.

Here are the things which I do at regular basis
Defragmenting HDDs (Heck it takes a hell lot of time)
Cleaning registry
Registry defragmentation
Disk cleaning
I have scanned the whole system for virus or spywares and found nothing. I even tried online scanners.

So you can say can I keep my PC pretty optimized. So I took a few screenshots to show it you guys. I took screenshot of my RAM and CPU usage with idle and with just a browser open and browsing net. I also took screenshots of the processes running in my PC at completely Idle state.
I wanna know that is there something wrong???? I am concerned about that RAM usage.
So here are the screenshots

Task Manager at Idle


Task Manager with Opera


Processes running at idle state Part 1


Processes running at idle state Part 2

[nims11]

you installed anyTHING new recently?

[gameranand]

Originally Posted by nims11

you installed anyTHING new recently?

No not at all.. See the screenshot below you'll know

[asingh]

Run Rivatuner and see how much your GPU/CPU is used while gaming. Also check temperatures of the CPU. It could be throttling.

[gameranand]

Originally Posted by asingh

Run Rivatuner and see how much your GPU/CPU is used while gaming. Also check temperatures of the CPU. It could be throttling.

Ir usually goes to 70-80 ans sometimes even 100...CPU temp is usually about 70-75.

[Vyom]

@gameranand: If your system's physical memory takes upto 48% (), when at IDLE, then I am guessing, your system ain't so "optimized" after all!
Try running the games, after boost mode of TuneUp Utilities, Advanced System Care, or simply GBoost. And see if that help gain frame rates.

[gameranand]

Originally Posted by vineet369

@gameranand: If your system's physical memory takes upto 48% (), when at IDLE, then I am guessing, your system ain't so "optimized" after all!
Try running the games, after boost mode of TuneUp Utilities, Advanced System Care, or simply GBoost. And see if that help gain frame rates.

Well I optimize to the best I could. Well I'll do all the optimization tonight and report back.

OK guys I did all the thigs again.
1. Registry Cleaning
2. Disk Defragmentation
3. Registry Defragmentation
4. Optimized my startup (Although only made only one change honestly).

Now voila the memory is at about 44% at idle state and about 48% with Opera and 1 or two more programs.

So Is that normal or do I need to do more??? If yes then What????

[Vyom]

So did GBoost helped gaining frame rates?

[gameranand]

Originally Posted by vineet369

So did GBoost helped gaining frame rates?

Well actually I didn't used that at all because now PC is back to normal state. I mean 34 - 35% memory load at idle and about 40-42% with some applications. CPU usage back to about 0-5%. So its back to normal then I don't need anything else.

Thanks a lot guys for the response.
Problem is solved now. For the record here is what I did again
1. Defrag and optimized my HDD using Auslogics Disk Defrag.
2. Cleaned registry using Ccleaner and TuneUp 2011.
3. Defrag Registry using Glary Utilities and TuneUp 2011.
4. Optimized system startup and closed down some windows services which I don't need at all.
5. Checked HDD for errors.

Thanks a lot.
Mods can close this thread now.

[Vyom]

A problem is never solved, unless and until you have specially solved it.
A problem which solves on its own, have a probability of 0.8 to crawl in again!

But, I think, the difference in memory load, is majorly due to those Windows Services you have stopped. You can try to post what services you had closed.

But congo, now that (or you think) your problem is solved!

[gameranand]

Originally Posted by vineet369

A problem is never solved, unless and until you have specially solved it.
A problem which solves on its own, have a probability of 0.8 to crawl in again!

Well I spend my whole damn night to solve this. Also restarted my PC 3 times which is rarity to me.
And this problem crawls in each and every computer we know and we have to care care of it. And yes it does come back all the time but thats why we are there eh.
Well most services were like
AMD external Events utility (Manual)
Google Updater
Hamachi
EpocCam
Windows Defender
Windows Firewall

and some more can't remember them.

[thetechfreak]

Do a scan using a s/w called Hijack This.
Then click send report.

[gameranand]

Originally Posted by thetechfreak

Do a scan using a s/w called Hijack This.
Then click send report.

Why so ?????

[thetechfreak]

I have a strange suspicition there is a malware or virus running somewhere

[gameranand]

Nah man I don't think so. I scanned my system with both online and offline scanners like 2 times and nothing came up so I kinda sure that its not the case.

[sygeek]

Dude, see the amount of processes running in your computer at a moment. Remove the stupid processes from running at startup.

[thetechfreak]

Yes, Anand, You're PC is not very optimised as you might think.


See mine, Google Chrome eats 300 mb RAM otherwise everything is OK

[Vyom]

@thetechfreak: I understand that anand's PC is not very optimized, but do you think, it's logical to compare, Win 7 with XP!

[thetechfreak]

Originally Posted by vineet369

@thetechfreak: I understand that anand's PC is not very optimized, but do you think, it's logical to compare, Win 7 with XP!

OK. I have Win 7 also installed. I use net from XP.

Gimme 15 minutes. will post my Win 7 Screenie of taskmanager.
Prepare to be shocked

[Vyom]

Ok. Done. Prepared.
Meanwhile, I would too post the screeny from MY Win 7. Since I too use Net from XP! *same pinch*

[thetechfreak]

Done. Here are 2 shots,

1) After 5 minutes of boot and nothing running except foobar 2000


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2) After a little light gaming and Chrome running with couple of tabs


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I use Windows 7 Enterprise.

[Vyom]

My TaskManager Screeny. OS: Windows 7 Ultimate.
Screenshot taken after 2 min of boot.



Btw, @thetechfreak: You say after 5 min of boot, but the Up Time shown is 1:52

[thetechfreak]

Originally Posted by vineet369

but the Up Time shown is 1:52

Sorry.
After boot.

Will put another when I get time, after long gaming session

Anyway what do you think of optimsation?

[Vyom]

Well, considering that, you have lost atleast 10 processes and more than 150 MB in RAM, I would HAVE to appreciate the level of Optimization done.

Next time, also post the Processes tab. Also, I think you have disabled the Firewall etc too, which I havn't.

[gameranand]

Originally Posted by vineet369

I understand that anand's PC is not very optimized, but do you think, it's logical to compare, Win 7 with XP!

What should I do then ???

Nowadays I have about 33-37% RAM usage means about 650-700 at idle.
My problem is that some processes take a lot of resources like Utorrent takes about 45MB RAM and Catalyst control which I can't kill takes about 10-15MB RAM also my damn net connection is only on with that damn Dialer software which again take about 10MB RAM...Other than that I really don't know how to optimize my system....I have done everything I could. Suggestions are welcome.

[thetechfreak]

Download this and use the RAM cleaner in it from time to time.

Advanced SystemCare Free 4 Download Review for Windows XP/Vista/7 - IObit

[gameranand]

^^ will use it for sure and will report back.