Laptop update of any use?

Hi. I am a pure enthusiast with no professional interests. Bear this in mind.

I am increasingly facing CPU spike issues with my Laptop set-up. Although I feel that I have optimised it to the max in various means and forms.

Hence, I was wondering if a change to a newer system would result in a real felt performance improvement?

Current system
Dell XPS/ i7 9750H/ 32 GB RAM

Envisaged "new set-up" could be:
Dell XPS 9530 (prefer Dell because of its Thunderbold connections) Intel Core i7-13700H/ 32 GB RAM

Also - any chance I could just swap the ssd's in order to not having to start from scratch?


Thanks

 

It depends. If the SSD is your System Disk, it will usually not work to just stick the old disk into the new machine. But you could put the SSD from the old machine into an external enclosure.

But it will be faster and more optimized, certainly. 8 more cores and 8 more threads. You will notice it. Everything will be higher specs. Will it help with your CPU spikes? Maybe. You'd have to figure out what is really causing that problem to be certain. I'd go with "probably" until you figure out the source of the spiking.

 

What system are we talking about? If it is Windows, well it may work. I did not try this will all my systems, but once when I got a new laptop, I put my drive with Windows 7 into the new computer, and in spite of that you can read everywhere that such things don't work, it booted up, loaded Windows, installed corresponding drivers, and it worked like a charm, and oddly asked no reactivation (I had legit OEM Windows license). The two computers were not the same series, however they were both HP. I am not sure if this contributed to that. Activationwise it can be difficult to tell, maybe some programs would detect you changed computer, maybe not. I don't know. But this is how it worked for me, so you need to try. I cannot take responsibility for loosing any activation if you try though, so do it at your own risk, but based on my experiences, I would not give a damn and would try if I had to do it for myself. Maybe it only worked like that earlier, now in Windows 11 it is different...I don't know.

 

windows is just a shitty OS at this point. very sad it got no alternatives.

 

What DAW would you be using? Most DAWs only use performance cores, and you have 6 performance cores to use with that laptop.

 

Thanks for all the replies sofar. Yes I guess the ssd swapping over might remain a dream.
I am unsing Windows 11 and mostly Studio One.

 

Upgrade, you are missing out on valuable performance, take part in technological progress and treat yourself.
Very good, fast processor!

 

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it works sometimes, but never count on it. I did the same thing with 2 different dell laptops...(and a copy of windows 10)
its easy to get windows 7 dvds off ebay for hp or dell computer (OEM windows7) it will install without a key or registration, because the key is in the bios. you can copy the iso to a usb thumb drive and install from that, its much faster, but you'll need a usb3 driver for your computer on that thumb drive, as Windows 7 did not come with usb3 drivers in the install routine. its a little fiddly, but after you do it once or twice its no big deal and saves a lot of install time.

 

those spikes aren't caused by your hardware, unless you have bad ram or poorly coupled heatsink causing your cpu to ramp up and down. they are most likely caused by your operating system or application programs (especially web browsers - they can suck a lot of cpu cycles)

check you admin logs, to see if you have recurring errors
run sysinternals processexplorer and see what processes (programs and subroutines of programs) are using your CPU cycles.
Run Sysinternals Autoruns and see what programs and drivers are being loaded at boot time - shit like google updates etc will steal cpu cycles an spike your CPU.

save a couple bucks and learn about your computer,

download the 64bit version for your computer, don't bother with the web tools
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/

its free.

 

A laptop with a Ryzen 9 7945HX would be my choice if buying a new laptop because it has 8 performance cores, and 8 efficiency cores but it might not fit your budget. The Ryzen 9 7940HS might be better for the budget you're going for, still has 8 performance cores, with 4 efficiency cores, but with Studio One performance cores are more important.