Strange thing. 2013 Laptop is outperforming newer performing gaming PC

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marchingt9

marchingt9

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I have 2 computers, a laptop made in 2013 and a PC my friend and I built. The issue is that when it comes to trying to run multiple streams at once, my gaming PC can manage about 3 streams before things start breaking (black streams, audio cut out, not loading, and streams dying). I tried doing the same on my laptop, and I pulled up 15 streams simultanously and they all ran flawlessly.

Specs time

Gaming PC:
  1. Graphics Card: AMD Radeon R9 390 (lightly used in mining rig for 2 months)
  2. Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor 3.59 GHz
  3. Ram: 2x Corsair 8GB 2400MHz (pretty sure DDR4)
  4. OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (Unactivated)
  5. Power Supply: 700W Thermaltake Smart series
  6. Motherboard: Gigabyte B450 Aorus M
  7. Hard drive: 2 Hard drives 1 120GB SSD (8 GB free) and 1 1TB HDD (415GB free)
Laptop

  1. Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 7730M
  2. Processor: Intel i7-3632QM 2.2GHZ
  3. RAM: 2x 8GB DDR3 1600MHz
  4. OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Home (activated)
  5. Motherboard: Dell 0PXH02 A00
  6. Hard drive: 250GB SSD (53GB Free)

I have 4 theories
  1. Not enough power to PC
  2. Not activated windows is causing issues
  3. Not enough available SSD memory on PC
  4. Graphics card is dying (although still games fine)
 
marchingt9 said:
  1. Hard drive: 2 Hard drives 1 120GB SSD (8 GB free) and 1 1TB HDD (415GB free)
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That is the problem.

Windows requires an average of 32 GB free space and 7-10 GB reserved for patches and updates. The less space you have the harder the system has to work and files will become corrupt. Figure an average of 20% to 30% is good.

see if this helps to clear out some space.

Remove Old System Restore Points

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Thanks, I will check out that link. That may be the reason why it shows I have so little free space but when I dig into my hard drive I can only find about 50GB of files. I tried solving the issue by moving chrome to my had, but that did not seem to fix the issues. I have also now have 21GB of free space on my ssd. Still no improvement though.
 
Rustys said:
That is the problem.

Windows requires an average of 32 GB free space and 7-10 GB reserved for patches and updates. The less space you have the harder the system has to work and files will become corrupt. Figure an average of 20% to 30% is good.

see if this helps to clear out some space.

Remove Old System Restore Points

How To Remove Old System Restore Points System Restore automatically creates restore points by making shadow copies of Windows, these copies can take up memory and build up quickly as you use your computer. By cleaning up System Restore points...
pchelpforum.net pchelpforum.net
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I used that linked advice. I now have 38GB free!! still no improvements though. So I think theory 3 may be dead.
 
Might also look at getting a bigger SSD windows is just going to get bigger and bigger and more demanding.

marchingt9 said:
[*]Graphics Card: AMD Radeon R9 390 (lightly used in mining rig for 2 months)
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marchingt9 said:
Graphics card is dying (although still games fine)
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marchingt9 said:
Not activated windows is causing issues
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Yes this could also be the corporate. Any reason why this has not been taken care of?

Download then run Speccy (free) and post the resultant url for us, details here, this will provide us with information about your computer hardware + any software that you have installed that may explain the present issue/s.

www.ccleaner.com

Saving Speccy snapshots

Saving Speccy snapshots: In Speccy, a 'snapshot' is a set of information about your computer system taken at one point in time. Much like a photograph, you can take a snapshot of your PC in Speccy ...
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Include the make and model of the Power Supply Unit if this is a Desktop.

To publish a Speccy profile to the Web:

In Speccy, click File, and then click Publish Snapshot.

In the Publish Snapshot dialog box, click Yes to enable Speccy to proceed.

Speccy publishes the profile and displays a second Publish Snapshot. You can open the URL in your default browser, copy it to the clipboard, or close the dialog box.
 
Yes this could also be the corporate. Any reason why this has not been taken care of?
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I am too cheap to buy windows if it runs fine otherwise. I may buy it now to see if it fixes the issue
 
Some other things that you can try after windows is activated.

Open an Administrator Command Prompt and use the following command
powercfg.exe /hibernate off
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McAfee uses lots of memory. Should you decide to remove it.
McAfee product removal tool (MCPR) here

Update windows to the newest release which is 21H1.
 
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