Testing an Acer laptop with i5-4200

[bgt]

Just testing a new Acer V3-772G-54208G50Makk. Nice screen, 17" full HD. Nice keyboard, double HDD slot and 8Gb ram and a NV GT750M VGA. Lot of bloatware so reinstalled it with 8.1. The i5-4200M seems like a slow chip. Even worse than the i5-3317U from my tiny Samsung laptop/tablet. It looks like the system is quite slow in reacting on user action. Not a snappy experience anyway. Benches look OK though so technically it is ok.

 

[bgt]

Is this southbridge a C2 chip?

 

[frozentundra123456]

Never give up do you?

 

[Enigmoid]

Never give up do you?

Blame the CPU for bloatware and a HDD? :sneaky:

 

[Matt1970]

That i5-4200M should be rocking so I would look at maybe updating your drivers, probably chipset.

 

[bgt]

There is a fresh install of 8.1 so no bloatware. True, the HDD helps in getting a low value on being a snappy laptop.

 

[bgt]

Never give up do you?

Give up on what??? Being honest???

 

[Essence_of_War]

The i5-4200M seems like a slow chip. Even worse than the i5-3317U from my tiny Samsung laptop/tablet. It looks like the system is quite slow in reacting on user action. Not a snappy experience anyway.

This sounds like you're confusing being CPU limited and being IO limited.

This laptop probably uses a single HDD, right?

 

[khon]

It looks like the system is quite slow in reacting on user action. Not a snappy experience anyway. Benches look OK though so technically it is ok.

That's obviously a harddrive problem, not a CPU problem.

Get a system with a decent SSD then try again.