Not Quite Dead
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Hi
Hopefully I can pick up some knowledge from the membership on how to proceed, apologies if this is wrong forum for this post and if so please could a moderator move it.
For years I used a PC predominantly for various non intensive tasks and had music playing constantly into a decent speaker set up though an Audigy sound card. Video requirement was only for cards or backgammon so only ever fitted mid range video cards. Switched OS from 7 to 10 and now I find that I cannot use a browser and listen to music without distortion or drop outs. Task manager shows CPU up to high 90s when a page with multiple ads loads and despite setting all the music related processes to high it still ruins the output to the point where I have given up playing audio unless I am just playing cards, if i have a browser open it will cause probelem. Varies between browsers but only since switching to - which I like apart from this.
So I may have to buy a new PC but I do not want to find that this is going to be a problem even if I replace my 5 year old AMD 4350 Quad Core / 8 Gb set up wit hsomething more singing and dancing.
So has anyone experienced and sorted this problem or do I have to move the music on the 4 external hard drives to another control unit?
Thanks in anticipation
Hopefully I can pick up some knowledge from the membership on how to proceed, apologies if this is wrong forum for this post and if so please could a moderator move it.
For years I used a PC predominantly for various non intensive tasks and had music playing constantly into a decent speaker set up though an Audigy sound card. Video requirement was only for cards or backgammon so only ever fitted mid range video cards. Switched OS from 7 to 10 and now I find that I cannot use a browser and listen to music without distortion or drop outs. Task manager shows CPU up to high 90s when a page with multiple ads loads and despite setting all the music related processes to high it still ruins the output to the point where I have given up playing audio unless I am just playing cards, if i have a browser open it will cause probelem. Varies between browsers but only since switching to - which I like apart from this.
So I may have to buy a new PC but I do not want to find that this is going to be a problem even if I replace my 5 year old AMD 4350 Quad Core / 8 Gb set up wit hsomething more singing and dancing.
So has anyone experienced and sorted this problem or do I have to move the music on the 4 external hard drives to another control unit?
Thanks in anticipation