- 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’m talking about is from the second I got it started happening, I hadn’t downloaded or installed anything and I’m sure it had no viruses and wasn’t used.
Note : I don’t play a lot of games and when playing I only playing lowest settings / resolution because I don’t really care about graphics I only want the FPS for lower input lag but seems pointless.
Laptop configs: IdeaPad Y700-15
CPU : i5-6300hq – 4 cores / 4 threads – 2.3ghz
GPU : NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960M 4GB
RAM : 8GB DDR4 2133Mhz SODIMM
HDD : 1TB 5400RPM
OS : Windows 10
Screen : “15.6 1920×1080 LED IPS
On Overwatch lowest resolution (1280×720) and lowest settings with 100% render scale I have 120 FPS
On CS:GO lowest res/settings same as above I have 80-100 FPS.
No other programs running in the background, any ideas?
Side question : 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)?
Solution:
- If you are using it plugged in, you should be operating at full performance.
- On battery, it will be considerably slower to conserve battery.
- Check your power options.
- If it is set to balanced, speed will be determined by plugged in or not.
- For fast graphics, you want to select the 960M when you are plugged in.
- Then, a big reason for generally sluggish response is your 5400rpm hard drive.
- A ssd will be magical.
- You can buy a Samsung evo ssd of 240gb or more and move your c drive there.
- Samsung has a free ssd migration utility to copy the os from your hard drive to the ssd.
- The Y700 laptop has provision for two devices. one normal sata, and one in the m.2 format.
- 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.
- Google will find you YouTube descriptions on how to do this.