{"id":2351,"date":"2017-03-27T16:53:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T11:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/?p=2351"},"modified":"2017-03-28T15:07:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T09:37:50","slug":"lenovo-ideapad-y700-super-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/lenovo-ideapad-y700-super-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"[ Solved -1 Answers] PC &#8211; Lenovo Ideapad Y700 Super Slow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><label class=\"label label-Warning\">PROBLEM<\/label><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I mainly bought it to for programming and work but it seems that sometimes it becomes unresponsive and laggy, I have to restart it and it goes back to normal after that, what I&#8217;m talking about is from the second I got it started happening, I hadn&#8217;t downloaded or installed anything and I&#8217;m sure it had no viruses and wasn&#8217;t used.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Note :<\/span> I don&#8217;t play a lot of games and when playing I only playing lowest settings \/ resolution because I don&#8217;t really care about graphics I only want the FPS for lower input lag but seems pointless.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Laptop configs:<\/span> IdeaPad Y700-15<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">CPU :<\/span> i5-6300hq &#8211; 4 cores \/ 4 threads &#8211; 2.3ghz<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">GPU :<\/span> NVIDIA\u00ae GeForce\u00ae GTX 960M 4GB<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">RAM :<\/span> 8GB DDR4 2133Mhz SODIMM<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">HDD :<\/span> 1TB 5400RPM<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">OS :<\/span> Windows 10<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Screen :<\/span> &#8220;15.6 1920&#215;1080 LED IPS<br \/>\nOn Overwatch lowest resolution (1280&#215;720) and lowest settings with 100% render scale I have 120 FPS<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">On CS:<\/span>GO lowest res\/settings same as above I have 80-100 FPS.<br \/>\nNo other programs running in the background, any ideas?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Side question :<\/span> Is it possible to add another SSD with the HDD? If not should I replaced the HDD with a 500 GB SSD? Also should I add in 8GB RAM? And does any SSD work (not laptop specific)?<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"solution\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Solution:<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>If you are using it plugged in, you should be operating at full performance.<\/li>\n<li>On battery, it will be considerably slower to conserve battery.<\/li>\n<li>Check your power options.<\/li>\n<li>If it is set to balanced, speed will be determined by plugged in or not.<\/li>\n<li>For fast graphics, you want to select the 960M when you are plugged in.<\/li>\n<li>Then, a big reason for generally sluggish response is your 5400rpm hard drive.<\/li>\n<li>A ssd will be magical.<\/li>\n<li>You can buy a Samsung evo ssd of 240gb or more and move your c drive there.<\/li>\n<li>Samsung has a free ssd migration utility to copy the os from your hard drive to the ssd.<\/li>\n<li>The Y700 laptop has provision for two devices. one normal sata, and one in the m.2 format.<\/li>\n<li>I presume the 1tb hard drive is in the sata port so you would need a m.2 ssd if you wanted to retain the hard drive for bulk storage.<\/li>\n<li>Google will find you YouTube descriptions on how to do this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[ad type=&#8221;banner&#8221;]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROBLEM I mainly bought it to for programming and work but it seems that sometimes it becomes unresponsive and laggy, I have to restart it and it goes back to normal after that, what I&#8217;m talking about is from the second I got it started happening, I hadn&#8217;t downloaded or installed anything and I&#8217;m sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5739],"tags":[5341,5331,5337,5330,5339,5333,5338,5334,5332,5336,5335,5340,5329],"class_list":["post-2351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","tag-have-new-lenovo-laptop-running-very-slowly","tag-how-to-speed-up-lenovo-laptop","tag-how-to-speed-up-your-computer","tag-lenovo-ideapad-running-slow","tag-lenovo-ideapad-y700-14-isk-ram-upgrade-bootup-slow","tag-lenovo-ideapad-y700-slow-solved","tag-lenovo-ideapad-y700-slow-and-sluggish","tag-lenovo-ideapad-y700-super-slow-solved","tag-lenovo-y700-bloatware","tag-lenovo-y700-very-slow-and-stuttering-with-youtube-and-windows","tag-new-lenovo-laptop-is-slow-solved","tag-why-is-my-brand-new-lenovo-laptop-so-buggy-and-slow","tag-why-is-my-lenovo-laptop-so-slow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}