Hey folks, quick computer-related question: can using Chrome cause your computer to hard freeze? Especially if said computer is pretty outdated, maybe that coupled with the browser's continued updates is causing incompatibilities with older systems in the long run or some shit like that? When Chrome is open my memory usage goes to 30%, all that just for a browser? Seems unreasonably much but then again what do I know I'm super retarded when it comes to computers.The machine in question is running Windows 7, and I often keep many tabs open, like 20 at a time sometimes more, can that be enough to tip a literal 10 year old computer over the edge? It's got a i4790K CPU and a Nvidia 970 GPU.I've been having some hard freezes some months back which at the time I thought were because of the CPU, so I replaced it, but they're back today, got two hard freezes in 8 hours. My night is ruined, I thought I'd gotten rid of this shit
Yeah it's possible. Get some minimalist browser or get a newer computer.
>>1550897It can freeze at any time, even when idle. As far as hardware goes, basically any component might be causing your freezes. Check everything to see if there's any visible damage.Perhaps consult event viewer to see if anything concrete pops up in the logs. You ought to check your RAM, first via memtest, then more stressful tests like TM5. It could be that your OC became unstable over time.
>>1550902Roger, I installed Opera (version 95, the last compatible with Win 7)>>1550940I checked my hardware and it all looks fine on the surface.Checked logs, only 2 "Critical" errors show up and they're about the reboots following the two hard freezes I mentioned (ID 41, "Kernel-Power"), that much we knew, they don't add anything as to the cause of them (the first time I manually turned my PC off by keeping the power button pressed, the second time I got a hard freeze it rebooted automatically).I've got a bunch of "Error" entries in the log, and the only 2 which occurred at the time of the hard freezes were ID 6008 (I googled it and, quote, "causes for it include: power issues such as insufficient power, system crashes, faulty hardware, overheating, driver issues").I ran the RAM test like you suggested and there seem to be no issues there at least.Thanks for the kind assist anons, I'll see if not using Chrome helps, probably not, in that case I'll know what else to look out for, cheers lads
UPDATE: I refrained from running Chrome today and I had no more hard freezes, it could be I just got lucky but I still felt like putting this out there
>>1550897it really shouldn't cause straight up freezing for a pc of those specs no. something else is up.personally, i had a problem with freezing recently on this build i'm selling. i checked every possibility, ram, cpu, hard drive, motherboard, everything. no matter what i did, the thing would just chug and then randomly freeze, and the disk usage was always hitting 100% for some odd reason. i was sure it was the ram but i tried so many different sets to no avail.turns out it was the power supply. apparently having a bad psu can cause some pretty fucking weird symptoms that seem like other components failing, i guess bcuz they're not getting clean power.
>>1550897>When Chrome is open my memory usage goes to 30%, all that just for a browser? Seems unreasonably muchMouse over each tab on Chrome to see how much memory it's eating. Add to that a couple hundred MB just opening the browser
UPDATE 2: Got another hard freeze today while gaming (was playing Deus Ex Mankind Divided). FUCCCCCC>>1551031>turns out it was the power supply. apparently having a bad psu can cause some pretty fucking weird symptoms that seem like other components failing, i guess bcuz they're not getting clean power.Oh? Thank you anon, I'll keep this into consideration, yeah while I was gaman' it had like a little hiccup and *then* it froze, the other times as well, it's like it skips a beat and then a few seconds later it happens. Disk usage doesn't seem abnormal on my end though I have to say>>1551042>Mouse over each tab on Chrome to see how much memory it's eatingI did. Sweet baby Jesus.
I usually disable prefetching.
>>1550897>When Chrome is open my memory usage goes to 30%, all that just for a browser?Chrome is infamous for being chewing off RAM.RAMS GONE HUNGRY BOY EAT!
Are you using an old version of chrome?Try thishttps://github.com/win32ss/supermiumMaybe boot up linux live iso and see if it freezes there too.
