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hey everyone. So I purchased this new laptop a Dell Inspiron 7560.

cor i5 7th gen 7200u

8 Gb ddr4 RAM with an additional RAM slot and also had 4gb graphics card gtx 940mx. I was expecting this laptop to deliver average to a little heavy usage on a daily basis but it has totally disappointed me. I cannot game on it no matter what and for some reason, just regular internet surfing also eats up to 6gb of the RAM. Can any of you guys give any suggestion to improve this scenario so that I can use it for minor photo and video editing? I have also decided to replace the 1TB HDD with an SSD and add another 8gb of RAM. can delidding the CPU help?

ANY suggestion guys cause I am new at this.

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HDD is part of the problem, but id do a clean install of windows to get rid of any bloatware and also make sure you have graphics drivers installed

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Decrapify, as Bananasplit suggested, and definitely get an SSD. Adding more RAM though won't do much as the present graphics that are on the laptop won't really improve.

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940mx is only really capable of gaming at 720p.  It is about half of a GTX 750 Ti performance wise.  Better than the Intel HD graphics, but not by much.

 

Also, uninstall all the bloat or reinstall from an image direct from Microsoft.

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get the SSD and uninstall the bloat chrome browser if u have it, a normal browser w/o crap uses less than 600mb of RAM even if u have multiple windows at the same time

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the u standands for ultra slow. gtx940m sucks. HDD will be making it feel slow as well. you could have probably picked up a i5 6300hq+960m or 1050 used for around the same price :( 

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8 hours ago, aman the soni said:

hey everyone. So I purchased this new laptop a Dell Inspiron 7560.

cor i5 7th gen 7200u

8 Gb ddr4 RAM with an additional RAM slot and also had 4gb graphics card gtx 940mx. I was expecting this laptop to deliver average to a little heavy usage on a daily basis but it has totally disappointed me. I cannot game on it no matter what and for some reason, just regular internet surfing also eats up to 6gb of the RAM. Can any of you guys give any suggestion to improve this scenario so that I can use it for minor photo and video editing? I have also decided to replace the 1TB HDD with an SSD and add another 8gb of RAM. can delidding the CPU help?

ANY suggestion guys cause I am new at this.

Yes get an SSD and 8GB of extra RAM in there if possible. The ram is supposedly user upgradeable, just buy another stick of 8GB, (or two sticks of 8GB if there is 2x 4GB in there now). https://www.dell.com/community/General/Dell-Inspiron-i7-7560-Ram-Upgrade/m-p/5098634

 

The system should feel much more responsive with more RAM and SSD, should be fine for some light photo and video editing.

 

Don't expect to be gaming on a GTX940M and similar. Anything other than maybe Minecraft and WoW wouldnt run on it. If that was your goal, should have gotten a laptop with a GTX 1050 or 1060 at least. Inspiron series are just regular consumer laptops built for people who want to do webbrowsing, some office work, and that's it. They try to make them as thin, light and affordable as possible for those purposes.

 

That CPU should be fine for the light tasks you want to do, but not for serious video rendering or something like that.

 

Delidding CPU: No, absolutely not. Impossible on a laptop chip anyway as far as I know.

 

 

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