Upgrade or Overclock Laptop

Should I upgrade or overclock my laptop? This is a common question, when we discover that our laptop became slower than we expected. For example: loading very slow, playing PC games not smoothly, and then we think we could speed up the system.

Most common cause of slowing the system because we add more software to our system and new software tend to require better hardware. Sometimes by updating the driver could speed up little bit, but upgrading the hardware gave a better outcome, for example adding RAM or replacing display card.

Other common troublemaker is multitasking program. For example: you want to listen music of watch video while browsing on the net, or you want to listen music while playing 3D PC games. Those examples gave your laptop “hard” work, we could check how “hard” it is by looking at the task manager. Open the program one by one, and see at the processes tab, more programs running and adding to the  system processes, then check at performance tab, increasing value at both processor and memory usage. 

When processor usage reached maximum, all processes programs on queue, waiting for the processor to accomplish the job, more processes programs on queue make system became slower. We could reduce processor demand by closing some programs, but if we need those programs to run, we could do slight overclocking. Why slight overclocking? Because maximum overclocking need super cooling system, otherwise laptop will be fried. But slight overclocking could be managed by own laptop cooling system. Slight overclocking will speed up the system little bit, more efficient than buying new laptop, because there is no other way to replace the processor with higher speed, usually motherboard could not accommodate it.

What happened if memory usage reached maximum, system will use free space on hard disk as additional RAM, and this will make the system process became slower, because access rate on RAM higher than access rate on hard disk. So adding RAM could bring back the system to normal. Replacing or adding RAM is a common upgrading, this is the way manufacturer to reduce the cost of laptop production by reducing some component on maximum performance and giving end user to purchase those components for  upgrading.

We could upgrade and overclock laptop in same time to stabilize the system. This is very helpful for old laptop, to accommodate new software or multitasking program.

Posted by sugeng wahyudi 1:49 AM

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