mr peas

Haha, I love the way you asked 'what is too much?' This is a click bait article yes, but I think it makes good points: The Best PCs You Can Build for $300, $600, and $1200 I had a discussion recently with a buddy who builds PC's every other year in order to stay on top of industry standards. He just upgraded his SSD to the newer types that allows him to go over 1gigabit speeds instead of 550ish speeds on SATA3. I asked him about whats a good system and a bad system, but as others said here, basically, it depends on your usage. I for one, enjoy editing photos and videos, thus I would benefit from more RAM and more cores/higher processor speeds. I was thinking about going with an old school Dell Workstation which uses dual Xeon processors at 4 cores each meaning 8 total real cores at about 3ghz for each processor, those can be had for ~$300 from eBay now, but the RAM is DDR2. On the other hand, purchasing a quad core i5 will yield great results at a lower numbers of cores, but newer DDR3 ram will probably be better also; albeit the cost of the newer system. For gaming, that sort of system is already annoyingly over compensated. I think a dual core set up with a nice video card will do wonders with an 8gb RAM thrown in as well. But it will also work well for editing too, just slightly slower, but you'll have to wait during editing anyway while its being processed (especially if you're working with a big film you put together). Its probably better to just have a second PC or laptop for Redditing or what not while it does that job. Lol but all in all I think you should just try to go with the lowest amount possible and add on from there. I'm a big car guy as well as cpu geek, and whenever I see new drivers at the track with nice newer sports cars, but can't drive for scrap because they haven't yet practiced enough behind the wheel, then that hunk of metal and 4 wheels does nothing for them until they get up to date with their experience. Same goes with CPU stuff. Just start slow and build up, chances are the stuff you want to get NOW that are new and top of the line will be much cheaper 6 months to a year from now, or at least during Thanksgiving's Black Friday sales coming up in a few months. Saving a few bucks is also a good habit anyway. Plus if you build a slower system and decide to build another one, a faster bigger one, then you can use your old one as a quick workstation to do remedial surfing while the other can be your gaming rig. Hopefully that helps!

Whoa! This is a month old thread, but I'm sure someone else will do a search and want to know what to do soon after. I think your main problem is what others stated before: your computer is probably being raided by dust bunnies and you simply need to clean it. I also use a laptop to play games, so I have to keep it clean constantly. A few things you can do: 1. But what also helps is a fan for underneath the laptop in order to dissipate the heat further. 2. Also another upgrade you can add is an SSD. Works wonders for speed loading but it will also lower the amount of heat generated (less friction from moving parts, just electrons moving around makes less heat and uses less energy = more battery life on a laptop!). 3. Like others stated, you should also check your settings to make sure you're not on 'power saver or balanced mode' on your power settings. In terms of graphics card settings, set everything to performance mode (I use nVidia so I can't attest to how you would be able to do that, but basically, less quality and more performance). 4. I think CS:GO is one of the easiest games to run on almost any recently made PC, but what you can also do is run the game in 'windowed mode' and use a lower resolution (perhaps one step below 1080p), I usually do that when I feel like the game is running a little slow. 5. And of course, turn off any programs that are power hungry (like the 50 tabs on Google Chrome, playing 35 YouTube videos; those aren't going to help you). But I think the main thing is just canned-air blowing our the dust particles in your computer will do wonders for your system, so I'd start with that, then go down the list afterwards. Best of luck!