07-05-2020, 10:33 AM
(07-03-2020, 07:16 PM)TheDead link Wrote: I don't use an antivirus myself.
Someone in the forums mentionned Sophos but the installation was said to be not so simple.
Looking at your description I see Pentium4, 4GB with a GTX 960 video card and running on Linux 32bits 3.8?
Anyhoo, I think maybe a Single core processor 'could' be a problem.
A Celeron/Sempron CPU will be awfully slow in many scenarios... Pentium 4 should be a little faster but still, from 13+ years ago.
Unfortunately, the Pentium 4's were not a good CPU architecture, even first generation Core i3 were faster the the best P4 3.8GHz.https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/In...1003vsm132
Also, the GeForce 960GTX came out in 2015. Even the GeForce 2x0 were said to bottle neck the Pentium 4.... so it's overkill in the system.
Anyhoooo2. If the slowness is not related to the prehistoric hardware... I had an idea to check your CPU temp? If a CPU gets hot, it will slow down.
So, if a CPU heatsink is loose and not in full contact with the CPU surface, this will take just a few seconds and it will crawl and cry.CPU temp should be about 70c or below.https://www.hipatic.com/2008/12/cpu-temp...ntium.html
Indeed the computer is a bit of a Frankenstein's monster system. Got it second hand for dirt cheap, CPU and RAM wise it is as far as it is going to go because the motherboard only supports single core 32bit CPUs and 4GB max RAM - so I did the most sensible thing I could do with that in mind and turned it into a dual boot Linux Lite and Windows XP Retro Gaming machine. I threw that overkill of a GPU only because it was my previous card on my main computer and as it turns out the 960 was the last card that Nvidia released with WinXP support. I installed in an SSD for game installs and with that in mind it works like a charm, been playing a lot of late 90's to late 2000's games on it and considering the limitation of a single core CPU it actually does really well.
As for whether the CPU overheating, that is a non issue as I installed a big block Arctic cooler on it since I noticed that the CPU was overheating way too much with the stock one. Now it doesn't get even go above 55ºC even under heavy load. Anyway I checked the recommendation from johnauten13 and that did the trick, the start-up time is far more manageable now.