Newly bought Aspire F 15 F5-573G-56Sh is performing v poorly.

Arya123

I bought the laptop just yesterday and I could notice some lags. Today when I tried to run the setup of a game laptop gets hanged and is working very slowly. My laptop is completely new and it was the first big application I was trying to install. My computer hanged and other tasks show 'Responding'. Even when the laptop goes to sleep while the application is being installed it takes around 2 mins to start again. Taskbar is showing 100% in disk tab, 83% in memory. But I have around 900 GB of free memory and the installation is the only thing that's going on. I have checked and disabled the least required background tasks.

Sharanji

Arya123 

For this model, I don't see any reason why it would run slow. The lag that you described, is it more of an input lag or performance lag? You can check input lag by simply typing onto a notepad. Is there lag between you pressing the key and letters popping up on the screen? 

What you described all indicate towards your RAM being the issue. If under heavy use it's above 80%, you simply need more RAM for your laptop usage. 

Here's what's happening: When your RAM is running low on space, your data on the RAM starts transferring to your hard disk drive which runs very slow when compared to your CPU (i5 processor). This causes occasional lag due to your processor not being able to access the files it needs, as it has to wait for the files to be fetched from the hard drive.

Order of speeds: CPU > RAM/memory > Hard Drive.

Even though your computer has traditional HDD, the lag can be avoided if you simply get a 16Gb RAM instead of 8, so that the files that your CPU (processor) needs will not be transferred to the HDD and kept in the RAM for faster access. A temporary fix would be to go to the Task Manager and under "start up" tab, disable all programs except the antivirus, realtek audio drivers and intel graphics drivers. This will prevent useless programs from running until you need them and save space on your RAM. This will also increase startup boot time.

You can also increase the page file.

For the long term, I recommend you return the laptop and get one that has a 16Gb RAM (if it's under warranty) Or replace/add 16 Gb RAM if it's not under warranty. Physically tampering with the laptop will void it's warranty.

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