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As you may know, I've recently bought a Tablet PC as my main (and now only) system. It has an intel Core Duo 1.66 GHz, 1 Gig of DDR2 RAM (2x 512 MB), and intel i945 integrated graphics. This is my first system with integrated graphics, and my first notebook.
My previous PC was an Athlon XP 3 GHz with Deskstar 180GXP, 1.5 GB DDR, nVidia 6600GT AGP. I never found that system to be too slow (except for some newer games, but that wasn't important to me).
Is it normal for a system like this to be so slow in windows? I can't quite decide if it's the harddisk (not 7200 rpm) or the integrated graphics - it's not the processor being throttled down from what I can tell, because I have told the system with some Toshiba app to allow the CPU to run at full speed, and CPU utilization is never high anyways (well, sometimes some app seems to saturate one core though, but that's not what I'm talking about). Every time the animation for "hide systray icons that are not in use" plays (the little arrow sliding along the systray, hiding the icons as it goes), the system slows down horribly for the second or so this takes. It's no big deal, but it's very irritating, because even the mouse lags a lot during that time, causing me to miss where I wanted to point. And it just feels wrong for such an expensive machine to feel this slow. I never had that with my old system. Also, loading graphics in windows (start menu, desktop when it hadn't been shown for a while, etc.) takes much more time than it did on the old computer.
It sometimes really feels as if the system is struggling when both the graphics adapter and the CPU want to access RAM, which makes sense, but then again, I have much more bandwidth now than I had before with single-channel DDR1. Do I have to do something to make sure the RAM is used in dual-channel mode? Can I somehow speed up the integrated graphics? I knew when I got this system it wasn't a gaming machine, but I expected no slowdowns in Windows. What gives? Oddly enough, stuff like transparent rectangles for selections (slowed down my Kyro II A LOT), or showing window contents when moving windows causes no slowdown at all.
Is it normal to have the graphics adapter in my device manager showing up twice (no exclamation mark)?
Oh, the windows install is almost fresh. You wouldn't believe the crap Toshiba loads on their laptops by default. I had EIGHTY processes running just after starting windows, and the systray covered a third of the screen at 1440 width!
My previous PC was an Athlon XP 3 GHz with Deskstar 180GXP, 1.5 GB DDR, nVidia 6600GT AGP. I never found that system to be too slow (except for some newer games, but that wasn't important to me).
Is it normal for a system like this to be so slow in windows? I can't quite decide if it's the harddisk (not 7200 rpm) or the integrated graphics - it's not the processor being throttled down from what I can tell, because I have told the system with some Toshiba app to allow the CPU to run at full speed, and CPU utilization is never high anyways (well, sometimes some app seems to saturate one core though, but that's not what I'm talking about). Every time the animation for "hide systray icons that are not in use" plays (the little arrow sliding along the systray, hiding the icons as it goes), the system slows down horribly for the second or so this takes. It's no big deal, but it's very irritating, because even the mouse lags a lot during that time, causing me to miss where I wanted to point. And it just feels wrong for such an expensive machine to feel this slow. I never had that with my old system. Also, loading graphics in windows (start menu, desktop when it hadn't been shown for a while, etc.) takes much more time than it did on the old computer.
It sometimes really feels as if the system is struggling when both the graphics adapter and the CPU want to access RAM, which makes sense, but then again, I have much more bandwidth now than I had before with single-channel DDR1. Do I have to do something to make sure the RAM is used in dual-channel mode? Can I somehow speed up the integrated graphics? I knew when I got this system it wasn't a gaming machine, but I expected no slowdowns in Windows. What gives? Oddly enough, stuff like transparent rectangles for selections (slowed down my Kyro II A LOT), or showing window contents when moving windows causes no slowdown at all.
Is it normal to have the graphics adapter in my device manager showing up twice (no exclamation mark)?
Oh, the windows install is almost fresh. You wouldn't believe the crap Toshiba loads on their laptops by default. I had EIGHTY processes running just after starting windows, and the systray covered a third of the screen at 1440 width!
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