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    Slow performance on XPS 1645. Would ReadyBoost help?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by rhinodakid, Jul 5, 2010.

  1. rhinodakid

    rhinodakid Newbie

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    Hiya guys,

    I'm very happy with my recently purchased XPS 1645 with i7, 500GB 7,200rpm HDD and 6GB RAM, but it can chug a little sometimes when I'm working on Photoshop. I'm creating book pages, using full-res 21MP photos, and when I have more than half a dozen in the single PSD document, it's really slowing down.

    I was wondering whether a ReadyBoost SD card might help?

    Comments/thoughts much appreciated :)

    Martin
     
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  2. funky monk

    funky monk Notebook Deity

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    I really doubt it, readyboost was only really effective on computers with very little RAM. Also, SD cards are usually quite slow so that would even further reduce the advantage. If you have 6GB of RAM then I really doubt it would be that that's slowing you down, more likely the amount of stuff that the processor and graphics has to chew through to render something that complex.
     
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  3. rhinodakid

    rhinodakid Newbie

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    Fair enough. Any other suggestions then? Where ought I look to upgrade (at some point in the future, having just bought this laptop!!) ... SSD? More RAM?
     
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  4. Muscle Master

    Muscle Master Notebook Consultant

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    This might be one of those cases when 8gigs mite come in handy

    and a SSD
     
    Muscle Master, Jul 5, 2010
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    fred2028 Sexy member

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    21 MP photos? You sure it's not bottlenecked because of the GPU's probable lack of fast access to all of its video RAM? Or maybe a processor issue hmmm dunno how multi-core Ps is, but i7 quads are clocked significantly lower than i5/i7 duals.
     
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  6. rhinodakid

    rhinodakid Newbie

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    Well, my desktop machine with 6GB and a desktop i7 was really struggling with Photoshop, Bridge and Lightroom all open simultaneously. The CPU/RAM monitor on my keyboard had CPU at almost zero, but ram at 97%. Maybe more RAM is the way forward for both machines.

    5D MkII :)

    It's Photoshop CS5, so it was only released a month or so ago. They're pretty good with performance normally, and it's a 64-bit version.
     
    rhinodakid, Jul 5, 2010
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  7. tvdang7

    tvdang7 Notebook Evangelist

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    mine chugs too and i only use 10mp pics.
     
    tvdang7, Jul 5, 2010
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