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I'm a 16 year old developer on what I see as a "decent" computer for my age and for what I do. My computer currently has 8GB of RAM and an Intel Core i3

I do a lot for a 16 year old, I program inside of Visual Studio which takes a lot of memory, not so much CPU, I program inside of Visual Studio code and I browse a fair bit. Taking a look at my stats now and again the resources on my computer are fairly high, especially the memory.

I can't remember the last time I looked at my resources and seen my memory under 60%, and what what it is, I've always thought the processor was the thing lacking for me, I mean 8GB memory is a lot isn't it? Most computers I see only have a maximum of 4GB ram.

The problem is, my resources are always high, and my PC feels sluggish when developing, if I close all my open applications it will resume being fast and responsive. The computer goes okay for around 6 seconds then will have a 2-5 second bit of sluggishness.

Even the smallest of applications seem to be taking up massive amounts of CPU, once one application finishes with the 5 slices of my CPU (Thinking of pizza here) it gives it to another application to use around 20% CPU, why are my applications using so much CPU? Is this a hardware problem or something else?

My task manager:

Here is an image of my specs:

These are:

  • Intel i3-2120 CPU
  • 8 gigs DDR3
  • 665 MHZ
  • ASuStek motherboard
  • NVIDIA GT710 with 1gig ram
  • 500 gig Seagate 3.5" 7200 RPM hard drive
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Harry Evans
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Let see if you don't have any windows update running in background. I think there is no magic or If your computer is running well btw it must not be related to hardware. Try to find out processes using CPU (run msconfig to disable some background application launched at startup)

Also, the bottleneck of your PC is the Mechanical Hard Drive, if he is faulty it can slow down your PC. Try putting a SSD into your system the gain would be appreciable :)

Bertrand Cebador
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