LigTasm
Supreme [H]ardness
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So I picked up one of those fairly cheap laptops that was on sale with a 2200U/Vega 3 and 8GB of RAM. I picked this model specifically because it states it has dual channel RAM which I know is a big deal for the APU.
I thought the slowness was the drive so I ripped out the garbage 5400rpm HDD and put in a 512GB Sandisk drive that I had spare and did a fresh install of Windows 10, but this thing is still slower than frickin Christmas.
Does anyone know where you even find drivers for this APU? The AMD site has a blank page for it and the manufacturer ones don't seem to install properly. All I know is that it takes the thing 90+ seconds just to open chrome and forget about doing anything on it like watching a video or low end games, not going to happen. Even right clicking on a blank desktop with absolutely nothing running takes it 10-15 seconds to pop up the menu.
It doesn't seem to be thermal throttling as its always in the high 30C low 40C range but it NEVER moves from 1.6ghz, the CPU should be clocked at 2.5ghz and boost to 3.4ghz. I really can't seem to dig up any info on this stuff, nobody uses these I guess? Too cheap?
I thought the slowness was the drive so I ripped out the garbage 5400rpm HDD and put in a 512GB Sandisk drive that I had spare and did a fresh install of Windows 10, but this thing is still slower than frickin Christmas.
Does anyone know where you even find drivers for this APU? The AMD site has a blank page for it and the manufacturer ones don't seem to install properly. All I know is that it takes the thing 90+ seconds just to open chrome and forget about doing anything on it like watching a video or low end games, not going to happen. Even right clicking on a blank desktop with absolutely nothing running takes it 10-15 seconds to pop up the menu.
It doesn't seem to be thermal throttling as its always in the high 30C low 40C range but it NEVER moves from 1.6ghz, the CPU should be clocked at 2.5ghz and boost to 3.4ghz. I really can't seem to dig up any info on this stuff, nobody uses these I guess? Too cheap?