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Laptop underperforming after fresh install, sound
Hello,
I have a custom built laptop from 2011/2012. It was built by a company that specialized in building computers for music production. Streamlining and tweaking windows, and selecting components for that purpose.
Long story short:
My HDD crashed and I lost everything on the drive, including the recovery partition. I bought a new ssd drive to replace the crashed hdd, and installed a fresh version of windows 7.
However, it is underpermorming immensely. Multitasking performance is horribly. For example I get choppy sound and audio dropouts with my external soundcard when listening to a song in itunes while copying a file or installing something. The cpu also seems to spike whenever something happens (maximizing a window for example).
My DAW is pretty much unusable, dropouts occur whenever sound is being proccesed.
The company that built the laptop is no more. I had to track down all the drivers manually, but all of them are installed. I have tried most (if not all) reccomendations when googling the issue. But I thought I'd post something here before declaring my old work horse dead.
I have also run LatencyMon and the results are bad, disabling startup items and services has not helped. Driver's are up to date. The SSD is performing great, start up time is a couple of seconds so that can't be the problem. I've tried running memtest86, and the RAM stick come out error free when tested separately, and with about 22 errors when tested together (although I heard this is normal). AHCI drivers are installed and enabled in BIOS.
Not sure what else I can do, is it time to just get a new laptop, or is there a fix to this issue?
My specs:
Intel i5 2520m
8GB DDR3 RAM (2x4GB)
500GB Samsung 850 EVO (replaced the old HDD)
Intel Series 6 / c200 chipset
Native Instruments Komplete audio 6 USB 2.0 soundcard.
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Thanks!