hi there,
I have a 4 year old Sony Vaio laptop. It's a Sony PCG-FRV25
P4 2.66Ghz. When i first bought this thing i could run everything very smoothly, even played WC3 and Jedi knight 2 without any problems. Now today it's 4 years old, i could barely multitask in this thing. Even surfing firefox up to like 6-7 tabs would slow down considerably on my PC. Everything that uses graphics slows down the PC.
I've updated every update i can find, even the graphics driver. Upgraded the ram to 1gb also.
Problem is even if i just did a fresh install of this PC, the problem is still there.
My CPU temp stays around 75 or so, HDD temp around 40-50.
I'm suspecting my CPU temp might be too high as a result the P4 slows down. That's why the whole system is slow.
If i'm only running 1 problem or 2 it's fine, but if i'm multitasking or watching a super high res video, everything slows down immediately. What annoys me most is having 6-7 tabs on firefox will slow down my whole PC (firefox goes to 100% resource). I've tried diff version of firefox and even on IE7, same thing happens.
1. Are there any good free benchmarking software out there for me to test this?
2. If i do need to dissemble my laptop to clean it.. how do i do it? i can't seem to find on the web any pictures or instructions on how to open my laptop
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