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Answer» Hello,
My Asus X58C laptop,i installed windows 7 professional 64 bit because i had genuine key and i also installed 2gb of memory.
But now for some REASON the laptop is really slow.
Would it be that the asus is not at a high enough spec to run the professional version of 7,it has 1.2ghz processor.
I have noticed also that the fan is getting hot,if i cleaned the fan would that speed it up.
Please any advice this is driving me crazy.Did you remember to re-install all the appropiate ASUS drivers for that ver. of Windows ? ?That CPU is very very weak for Windows 7. A Computer I bought back in 2003 scores better in benchmark results.
http://cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Celeron+220+%40+1.20GHz
While this "Single-Core" CPU can run Windows 7, its not a good pairing of CPU & OS. When you refer to slow after reinstall, did you upgrade from Windows Vista to 7 through this reinstall process or was it RUNNING Windows 7 prior to this better than it is now? Even if you threw plenty of RAM at this system, the CPU is just very weak in what it can handle.
A modern OS alternative for this system would be a Linux distro, but that too would probably not be very fast.
Windows 7 32-bit would probably be the better match for 7 for this, but still there wont be much of a performance gain, but Windows 7 32-bit will run better on 2GB RAM than Windows 7 64-bit would, so if your really pushing this to run 7 and want the best performance Windows 7 32-bit would be it.
Also its likely still running a slower 5400rpm drive. But I wouldnt invest much money into this system when a brand new latop for around $400 would be 10x better than what you have now for processing power and more speed. I got a ASUS Laptop to replace my Netbook that I was running for $279.99 and its way way better than the Netbook I was running for last 5 years it came with Windows 8, although I downgraded it to Windows 7.2Gb of memory? Try upgrading it to higher memory capacity. Overheating can also slow down your computer and can also cause system lock-ups. So it would be a good idea to clean not only your fan but also other hardware. For general Reference:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/system-requirements
Quote 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
Quote 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
This just means that it will run Windows 7, but its by no means a claim that it will run well. The weakest CPU I ran Windows 7 32-bit on was a 2.0 Ghz socket 478 Pentium 4 and while it did run Windows 7, it ran it very sluggish and the single-core CPU was almost constantly at 100% and long pauses to wait for services to start up and programs to launch. The CPU was not a good match for Windows 7, so I went back to Windows XP on this system. Yet later Pentium 4's can run Windows 7 at a better pace. These are the later 2.66+ Ghz CPU's with more CACHE and others with Hyperthreading which are more powerful than early Pentium 4's.CPU seems to be the problem. It says that the minimum requirements are met but doesn't mean if you meet it, it runs faster. Try upgrading the memory as this seems to be the only option to make it fast, and use a 32bit operating system.
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