How much can your computer do before it slows down?

[Unforgettable]

I don't lag often. But if I have many msn converstations or huge group convos, photoshop, and multiple tabs on firefox open, I do tend to lag...

 

[mewthree w/armor]

About 100 tabs open in one Mozilla Firefox Window.
or
Play Crysis Warhead in general.
or
Run AVG. That slows down EVERYTHING. XD

 

[Obito.]

I dont lag often. my comp was just upgraded xD

I have a game minimized (COD4), 6 MSN convos and 2 yahoo convos up, 12 firefox windows, utorrent, windows media player (DVD) and AVG runjnins scans and its not lagging at all

 

[Confuse]

Mine's reliable, but it does break under a lot of programs easily. I'll have AIM, 2 IE windows, iTunes, and GIMP goin' and sooner or later, it just stops.

That's why I try to avoid this as much as possible.

 

[Gummy]

I don't have godly amounts of RAM (or even semi-godly) so my max is probably Firefox with 3+ tabs and open and Photoshop before things noticeably slow down.

 

[Nick]

I can have about 300 downloaded songs on iTunes running, a song, three tabs on Windows Live and about six or so tabs on Firefox going on at the same time before I start to really lag.

 

[Hiidoran]

Wow, my laptop must literally fail to the most epic degree when compared to the rest of you. I mean, it can hold about three MSN chat windows, one Mozilla window with about four or so tabs, and maybe a Word Document before it starts its little fan and slows down.

That, or running any kind of flash application and/or anything that requires more attention than a notepad. ;_;

(Good thing it's coming back to me with more RAM than it originally had!)

 

[Nick]

Wow, my laptop must literally fail to the most epic degree when compared to the rest of you. I mean, it can hold about three MSN chat windows, one Mozilla window with about four or so tabs, and maybe a Word Document before it starts its little fan and slows down.

That, or running any kind of flash application and/or anything that requires more attention than a notepad. ;_;

(Good thing it's coming back to me with more RAM than it originally had!)

I think I must be crazy. I can do all I stated, but if I open anything related to Word, my computer just completely fails epically. It's not even funny. It's also extremely hard to understand why I can do all tat I can with it, yet it just.. :| I really don't know how to explain it.

 

[ErickaVolt]

I never experienced lags in my computer. I only open 4-7 tabs in my FF and using 3 NDS emulator for some classified purposes. I'm not fond of using too many programs.

 

[Charizard EX]

Mine doesn't slow down unless I open so many things quickly, otherwise never. e.g I doubleclick My Computer and then quickly open My documents, recycling bin.

 

[GKS]

My computer is okay, it could run enough process at one time: Music, homework, internet explorer, load videos.

 

[Charizard EX]

What, I can open 10+ tabs in firefox AND safari and my PC NEVER slows down.
Like I said the ONLY thing that would make my PC freeze for 2 mins is if I open too much things at once.

 

[Jorah]

Well, I don't know about anyone else, but trying to do anything while burning videos onto DVD = death lag. I don't usually try millions of things at once, but I can be listening to YouTube videos while converting and downloading stuff, so that's OK for me. Although, yesterday I had iTunes up with Word and Internet Explorer and it was loading the typing I was doing on Word XD It hasn't done that before.

 

[Counterfeit]

Mine never really slows ddown, unless I'm in 3DSmax on top of everything that's normally open. (FF, Winamp, Photoshop, WLM, Media Center.)

Oh, and on some games. Oblivion on highest settings has some trouble, and Cryis, oh god.... xD

 

[bgt]

This is a very general question. Using 3D Mark for our benchmarks or what? Have I pushed my machine to its limits? No. Only time I generally see a lot of lag is if I begin to capture in HD or SD with Time shifting. Besides that, basic tasks, I can't tell.

 

[Innocence]

Before it slows down at all? NOTHING. If you mean slows down to the point of being unusable...Like 5 chat windows, a couple of browser windows and SwiftKit running, plus some taskbar programs I wasn't even using is all I've had at once, with moderate slowdown.

 

[Facade]

I usually have Windows Live running ( 2 or 3 conversations), Firefox (2 or 3 tabs) and iTunes running, and it doesn't slow down at all.
My computer runs slower when i'm playing WoW though.

 

[Mooshykris]

It would depend on what I am doing.

For example, to efficiently run Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 without lag, I need to close most processes.

Under normal conditions, it takes an awful lot. I have about 15 programs that are always running in background with no trouble at all.

~Mooshykris