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Maybe this should be posted elsewhere. "Windows"? "Software"? "Networking"?
My absolutely stellar flagship system is back after months of troubleshooting a bad PSU wire, and before that -- a stupid accident that borked my USB controller and required motherboard replacement.
Even before the static-charge accident that borked my USB and motherboard, I'd noticed certain things.
I'm happy with my graphics card. It is a Gigabyte GTX 1070 OC "Mini". It's overclocked on an Afterburner "curve".
The system gets used for some gaming, but also for some serious business. Because I fear data-loss disasters, I keep my accounting files on my server upstairs -- connected by G-bit wired Ethernet. Various machines access the same files at different times. For the Quicken files, each machine backs up locally in addition to changing the file on the server. The server is both redundant and backed up. I also store my growing document archive on the server.
Oftimes, the Quicken and document management system remain open. I'm keen on managing our money, just as keen on referencing various documents in the archive -- many related to the money, others to our healthcare, property management -- everything.
Despite a very fast system (as I've seen it to be), the display response to keyboard activity in various software (for instance, my Office Outlook e-mail browser) slows down and gets sluggish. This occurs in proportion to times when I have multitudes of web-pages open in EDGE, and/or -- when I'm accessing the files on the server with the open applications. The more web-pages open, the more noticeable. And the network file access with the various applications also has a noticeable effect.
When I close those applications and the server file access, the sluggishness seems to disappear. Further, if I choose to game with my racing simulators with all those other files open in the background, I get frame dropouts and hesitation. When I close the internet access and server files, the games are peppy again.
Can someone explain to me what's going on with this? Is there a way to eliminate the behavior -- other than closing down web-pages and applications?
For someone who's been "doing micro-computers" since 1983, taught five programming languages and was the IT go-to guy in my finance department, I don't feel like any "expert" anymore. I'm 74 and suspecting that some brain-cells have gone south, like HAL the computer in Kubrick's film -- "Dave? My mind is going . . . . I can feel it . . . I can feel it . . . " Maybe someone can help me understand my graphics-slug phenomenon. If I need to, I can post this over in "Windows" or "Networking", but this seemed the place to start.
My absolutely stellar flagship system is back after months of troubleshooting a bad PSU wire, and before that -- a stupid accident that borked my USB controller and required motherboard replacement.
Even before the static-charge accident that borked my USB and motherboard, I'd noticed certain things.
I'm happy with my graphics card. It is a Gigabyte GTX 1070 OC "Mini". It's overclocked on an Afterburner "curve".
The system gets used for some gaming, but also for some serious business. Because I fear data-loss disasters, I keep my accounting files on my server upstairs -- connected by G-bit wired Ethernet. Various machines access the same files at different times. For the Quicken files, each machine backs up locally in addition to changing the file on the server. The server is both redundant and backed up. I also store my growing document archive on the server.
Oftimes, the Quicken and document management system remain open. I'm keen on managing our money, just as keen on referencing various documents in the archive -- many related to the money, others to our healthcare, property management -- everything.
Despite a very fast system (as I've seen it to be), the display response to keyboard activity in various software (for instance, my Office Outlook e-mail browser) slows down and gets sluggish. This occurs in proportion to times when I have multitudes of web-pages open in EDGE, and/or -- when I'm accessing the files on the server with the open applications. The more web-pages open, the more noticeable. And the network file access with the various applications also has a noticeable effect.
When I close those applications and the server file access, the sluggishness seems to disappear. Further, if I choose to game with my racing simulators with all those other files open in the background, I get frame dropouts and hesitation. When I close the internet access and server files, the games are peppy again.
Can someone explain to me what's going on with this? Is there a way to eliminate the behavior -- other than closing down web-pages and applications?
For someone who's been "doing micro-computers" since 1983, taught five programming languages and was the IT go-to guy in my finance department, I don't feel like any "expert" anymore. I'm 74 and suspecting that some brain-cells have gone south, like HAL the computer in Kubrick's film -- "Dave? My mind is going . . . . I can feel it . . . I can feel it . . . " Maybe someone can help me understand my graphics-slug phenomenon. If I need to, I can post this over in "Windows" or "Networking", but this seemed the place to start.