Recent content by balluboi

Also, its not just during games, even simple tasks like switching between tabs and opening the file explorer feel laggy at times. The audio cracks momentarily sometimes when I'm playing a video and try to open any other application. I have noticed this mostly happens when I have Firefox opened...

The CPU usage is almost always at 100% whenever the lag happens, the GPU usage is about what I would expect it to be under the circumstances. I haven't checked the exact temp. readings but the laptop does get hot and the fans start spinning crazy whenever this happens. Something else that might...

I'm gonna have to go in a bit of detail here so please hang on: I have a 2 years old Acer E5-572G 525V. The laptop was quite a bang for the buck in my limited budget and actually performed better than I expected it to. Everything was good... Then around 4 months back I decided to add another 8...