Deteriorating performance

[Pocalypse]

Ugh, here are my stats when idle:

• Physical memory used: 59% (about 7gb)
  I cannot figure out where this is going. The best I can come up with is superfetch. The highest memory process is svchost taking about 450mb usually, and one of the services it lists is superfetch.
• Nothing takes a high cpu % except wow.
• Top memory hogs (except wow): svchost.exe, chrome.exe, svchost.exe, (iTunes if I have it running). The rest are <100mb.
• The only process above 3k handles is System, which I assume is normal. The next one down is svchost at 1300.
• Only high priority process are dwm.exe, winlogon.exe and wininit.exe.

The only bad thing from that list is my physical memory used. As I said, it's always at least 50% (6gb), even when idle. With wow on, it approaches 90%. It's been like this for a while, I haven't been able to figure out why.

ILikeTwins, I use chrome and firefox exclusively. Do those still cause slowdowns with a high cache?

HPAVC, I'm going to test out all the wow stuff now.

Thanks a lot for the help everyone!

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Ugh, here are my stats when idle:

• Physical memory used: 59% (about 7gb)
  I cannot figure out where this is going. The best I can come up with is superfetch. The highest memory process is svchost taking about 450mb usually, and one of the services it lists is superfetch.
• Nothing takes a high cpu % except wow.
• Top memory hogs (except wow): svchost.exe, chrome.exe, svchost.exe, (iTunes if I have it running). The rest are <100mb.
• The only process above 3k handles is System, which I assume is normal. The next one down is svchost at 1300.
• Only high priority process are dwm.exe, winlogon.exe and wininit.exe.

The only bad thing from that list is my physical memory used. As I said, it's always at least 50% (6gb), even when idle. With wow on, it approaches 90%. It's been like this for a while, I haven't been able to figure out why.

ILikeTwins, I use chrome and firefox exclusively. Do those still cause slowdowns with a high cache?

HPAVC, I'm going to test out all the wow stuff now.

Thanks a lot for the help everyone!

I don't see anything obvious here. The large memory usage is probably Vista doing its SuperFetch thing.

One other thing I might suggest is making sure your GPU, CPU and power supply fans are all blown out and dust-free (or close to it). Heat can cause modern CPUs/GPUs to throttle themselves, which would result in your experience.