What's considered normal for a multitasking operation? I have currently twenty tabs open in my browser, another twenty documents in Open Office, a few graphics in Paint.net, with CBR Comic Reader, twelve Windows Explorer windows open and Spotify running. I have 8 gb ram and an AMD Phenom II X6 1055T processor running at 2.8 Ghz. Everything is taking ages to respond, and I have a 360 Kbs broadband connection. Am I asking too much of this machine? Should I be closing some stuff or should I expect to be able to run with this amount of programs open?
Multitasking: am I asking too much of my PC?
Open Task Manager and see what it reports about CPU and memory usage. That will give you an indication about how much strain or otherwise your system is under.
Originally Posted by Trollheart:
“What's considered normal for a multitasking operation? I have currently twenty tabs open in my browser, another twenty documents in Open Office, a few graphics in Paint.net, with CBR Comic Reader, twelve Windows Explorer windows open and Spotify running. I have 8 gb ram and an AMD Phenom II X6 1055T processor running at 2.8 Ghz. Everything is taking ages to respond, and I have a 360 Kbs broadband connection. Am I asking too much of this machine? Should I be closing some stuff or should I expect to be able to run with this amount of programs open?”
“What's considered normal for a multitasking operation? I have currently twenty tabs open in my browser, another twenty documents in Open Office, a few graphics in Paint.net, with CBR Comic Reader, twelve Windows Explorer windows open and Spotify running. I have 8 gb ram and an AMD Phenom II X6 1055T processor running at 2.8 Ghz. Everything is taking ages to respond, and I have a 360 Kbs broadband connection. Am I asking too much of this machine? Should I be closing some stuff or should I expect to be able to run with this amount of programs open?”
That is quite slow broadband. No wonder you are having issues. You have far too much open anyway. Even the fastest PC is unlikely to handle more than 33℅ of this comfortably.
Originally Posted by LION8TIGER:
“That is dial up speed ?”
“That is dial up speed ?”
It's slow by ADSL or Fibre standards but a hell of a lot quicker than dial up. I was lucky to see 36kb/s on dial up. ISDN single channel was 64kb/s.
Originally Posted by chrisjr:
“It's slow by ADSL or Fibre standards but a hell of a lot quicker than dial up. I was lucky to see 36kb/s on dial up. ISDN single channel was 64kb/s.”
“It's slow by ADSL or Fibre standards but a hell of a lot quicker than dial up. I was lucky to see 36kb/s on dial up. ISDN single channel was 64kb/s.”
They probably mean 360 KB/s, which would be about 2.8 Mb/s.
I am tempted to ask the OP how many pairs of eyes he has. Perhaps his user name gives a clue to the motive behind the post. 
Originally Posted by LION8TIGER:
“That is dial up speed ?”
“That is dial up speed ?”
Sorry, that should be 360 mb not kb. You know, the Virgin one. D'oh! Fastest in Ireland by a mile.
Originally Posted by chrisjr:
“It's slow by ADSL or Fibre standards but a hell of a lot quicker than dial up. I was lucky to see 36kb/s on dial up. ISDN single channel was 64kb/s.”
“It's slow by ADSL or Fibre standards but a hell of a lot quicker than dial up. I was lucky to see 36kb/s on dial up. ISDN single channel was 64kb/s.”
Yes brain freeze from me, I was thinking of 512kbps being dial up speed but in fact it was the first broadband speed.
Originally Posted by Trollheart:
“Sorry, that should be 360 mb not kb. You know, the Virgin one. D'oh! Fastest in Ireland by a mile.”
“Sorry, that should be 360 mb not kb. You know, the Virgin one. D'oh! Fastest in Ireland by a mile.”
Ah, huge difference ..... I think its MB rather than mb.
Originally Posted by LION8TIGER:
“Ah, huge difference ..... I think its MB rather than mb.”
“Ah, huge difference ..... I think its MB rather than mb.”
The poster probably meant Mb.
Originally Posted by zx50:
“The poster probably meant Mb.”
“The poster probably meant Mb.”
There are many people who are unaware that the case of the M and B makes a very real difference to the value of the broadband speed they are trying to quote.
Usually you can make an informed guess that when someone posts 1mb, in the context of broadband speeds, they don't really mean 0.001 of a bit and that they are really trying to say 1Mb as in mega (million) bits. And also it is reasonable to assume that if they use B they really mean b as in bit not B as in Byte.
Originally Posted by zx50:
“The poster probably meant Mb.”
“The poster probably meant Mb.”
Yes sounds right, I'm always getting my b's mixed up with my B's.
