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There is a very peculiar problem I've seen on my cousin's PC and I am not 100% sure what's causing that.
The problem is, that when browsing every bigger page (with multiple pictures and such) takes approximately 3-5 seconds to fully load, regardless of which browser we were using. The problem got even worse when we tried to run multiple tabs/windows.
The problem should not lie in Internet connection, as I've checked that one is 7Mbps, thus I assume the problem lies in his PC not having enough RAM and CPU output. His CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2000+
(1.6 GHz) and he has 512MB RAM
(I don't know which kind, I don't know what motherboard either) and all that is running on top of Windows XP
. When we took a peek on task manager to track CPU usage and available memory, it did seem to be the case... and yet I am unsure.
Is it really possible that the hardware is the bottleneck here? Afterall, how much CPU power and RAM should one have to browse internet comfortably?
I should also add, that his computer does look rather clean. There aren't many processes in background neither does it seem to be infected with viruses or worms.
2I highly depends on the web site. If it is using flash and JAVA and other plug-ins of course the hardware can become the bottleneck. Please tell us what website you are talking about. – Thorsten Staerk – 2013-12-29T14:47:09.453
It is really, every website with some content. E.g. www.youtube.com www.onet.pl www.wp.pl – Kreweta – 2013-12-29T15:29:57.227
If it's an old computer could it possibly also be browser related? – Autumnal – 2013-12-29T17:25:45.330
Try installing browser extensions like AdBlock Plus to reduce the amount of content to display and set the Flash plugin to "click-to-play" so that it doesn't load by default. – None – 2014-04-30T18:43:57.753