Slow laptop...please help

[The man with no name]

I have a HP bs15 with an Intel core i5 7200u, a 2 GB amd integrated graphics card, 500 GB ssd m.2 and 20 GB ddr4 2400mhz. 

The boot up is very fast but when I run softwares like Microsoft Word or any other software for that matter, it becomes laggy as hell. A game like FSX lags like I've never seen before. 

My old laptop was an hp pavilion with 2 GB ram, 512 mb graphics card and a 512 GB hdd and I took everything I would throw at it like a champ without even breaking a sweat. Can you please advise me on how to improve my laptop?

[Statik]

What are your temps?

[Aimi]

What are the temps like whenever you run something? Or even at idle, for that matter.

[MartinKweh]

Did you check the temperatures? It could have been just throttling.

[The man with no name]

10 minutes ago, Statik said:

What are your temps?

 

[The man with no name]

That's with word running. But when idle, the CPU sits at 1 to 5%

[Aimi]

1 minute ago, The man with no name said:

That's with word running. But when idle, the CPU sits at 1 to 5%

That's usage, not temperature.

[The man with no name]

12 minutes ago, Aimi said:

What are the temps like whenever you run something? Or even at idle, for that matter.

With word running it will be at 100% at first and then after a few secs it drops to 25 percent when I use the software

[The man with no name]

2 minutes ago, Aimi said:

That's usage, not temperature.

I'm a noob! How do I checked the temp?

[Aimi]

1 minute ago, The man with no name said:

With word running it will be at 100% at first and then after a few secs it drops to 25 percent when I use the software

Again, that's usage. We're asking how hot it's getting.

[Aimi]

Just now, The man with no name said:

I'm a noob! How do I checked the temp?

Find software that can check it, like HWinfo.

[The man with no name]

1 minute ago, Aimi said:

Find software that can check it, like HWinfo.

 

[The man with no name]

23 minutes ago, MartinKweh said:

Did you check the temperatures? It could have been just throttling.

can you please let me know how i can resolve that @MartinKweh?

[Statik]

1 hour ago, The man with no name said:

can you please let me know how i can resolve that @MartinKweh?

I would start by downloading HWiNFO64, run whatever is giving you issues, then open HWiNFO, scroll until you find your "CPU (Tctl/Tdie)" temp, and tell us that.

 

Your laptop could be old and dirty, or your thermal paste could be on its last legs, which would mean your laptop is over heating, and therefor slowing itself down to prevent damage.

[MartinKweh]

Check first if you are thermal throttling. If you laptop exceeds something like 90-95c, and the clock speeds dips below the rated clocks. Its already throttling. You can see this using hwinfo and something similar.

 

To resolve this, 

 

1. What is the age of the laptop, if its pretty old, you might need to change the thermal paste.

 

2. Cleaning. Usually if the vents and the fan is full of dust, it will start to thermally throttle. So that might need a bit of cleaning

 

3. When using. Try to elevate the laptop. That will promote better airflow. You can do this by lifting the back end of the laptop by about .5 inch and using it in a flat surface.not on the bed since it will literally get suffocated .

 

4. Try to undervolt (follow guides carefully) this will sometimes reduce stock performance but you will loose a lot more performance when overheating so this is a good solution too.

 

 

[The man with no name]

1 minute ago, MartinKweh said:

Check first if you are thermal throttling. If you laptop exceeds something like 90-95c, and the clock speeds dips below the rated clocks. Its already throttling. You can see this using hwinfo and something similar.

 

To resolve this, 

 

1. What is the age of the laptop, if its pretty old, you might need to change the thermal paste.

 

2. Cleaning. Usually if the vents and the fan is full of dust, it will start to thermally throttle. So that might need a bit of cleaning

 

3. When using. Try to elevate the laptop. That will promote better airflow. You can do this by lifting the back end of the laptop by about .5 inch and using it in a flat surface.not on the bed since it will literally get suffocated .

 

4. Try to undervolt (follow guides carefully) this will sometimes reduce stock performance but you will loose a lot more performance when overheating so this is a good solution too.

 

 

Thanks for your reply @MartinKweh

it is 3 years old and the fan was clear 1 week ago. it sits still on a flat surface (my table).

[The man with no name]

22 minutes ago, Statik said:

I would start by downloading HWiNFO64, run whatever is giving you issues, then open HWiNFO, scroll until you find your "CPU (Tctl/Tdie)" temp, and tell us that.

 

Your laptop could be old and dirty, or your thermal paste could be on its last legs, which would mean your laptop is over heating, and therefor slowing itself down to prevent damage.

Im sorry i just lost in all the information on there. I have no idea of what they mean...so i spotted the 'savelog' option and i was like..lets just share that!..so here you go

HWdata.HTM

[Statik]

1 hour ago, The man with no name said:

Im sorry i just lost in all the information on there. I have no idea of what they mean...so i spotted the 'savelog' option and i was like..lets just share that!..so here you go

HWdata.HTM 144.37 kB · 1 download

My bad. So when you launch, ensure you check sensors only like below.

 

Then when you scroll down you'll see a section with the name of your CPU (the middle of the photo), and the first temperature is the one we need.

 

[The man with no name]

11 minutes ago, Statik said:

My bad. So when you launch, ensure you check sensors only like below.

 

Then when you scroll down you'll see a section with the name of your CPU (the middle of the photo), and the first temperature is the one we need.

 

Thanks for your reply and more importantly your patience Mr @Statik

I might be annoying, but i do not really understand all these stuff..i could not find the information you told me to look for, I took as screenshot of all of it.

[MartinKweh]

Try running the things that slows down after a while then post a screenshot of that again. Dont close it

[Statik]

1 hour ago, The man with no name said:

Thanks for your reply and more importantly your patience Mr @Statik

I might be annoying, but i do not really understand all these stuff..i could not find the information you told me to look for, I took as screenshot of all of it.

No that's awesome man. Like @MartinKweh said, are you able to run whatever game/program with this in the background until it starts to lag, etc, then post a screenshot? That will tell us the peak emperatures while it's having it's little hissy fit

[The man with no name]

ive run the softwares that I run on a daily basis and some of the workload that causes the lag..

[The man with no name]

These are the figures when it started to lag.. the apps were my daily work apps