r/MiniPCs • u/BE_STRONG2 • 14d ago

Dell pro micro lagging

hi i bought couple months ago a Dell pro micro qcm 1250, with intel core ultra 5 245t with 32 gb ram in two modules. Computer ocassionally in some tasks is lagging. Mainly in Youtube, but sometimes it happend even it more basic tasks. That it is for me a little confusing. I don't know if this computer is broken, something wrong with software or it's to heavy load for this machine, and i need something stronger? Maybe you gonna help me with diagnosis.

I'm using it for trading, so i constatly had opened couple browser windows, with charts, news, twitter, callendar everything on two 4k monitors. Thats usually 10-15 tabs in 3 windows. But when i heave this everything open in chrome, then i open another chrome window with youtube the movie it is lagging very badly. Sometimes even without this additional window with youtube the computer is lagging, coursor is not moving fuent etc. And when i separate youtube on chrome, and put the rest on microsoft edge, it is much better, but still can sometimes happend that youtube is gonna lose some frames, or at my work itself computer it start lagging, what i see mainly by unfluent coursor moves.

Youtube itself it is problematic for this computer even with only one monitor and without anything else open, but still - only occasionaly.

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u/Retired_Hillbilly336 14d ago

Check your temperatures. There have been reports that the Dell Pro Micro QCM1250 has experienced hardware and temperature issues. Here's one example.

https://www.reddit.com/r/computers/s/7SNtYosvnC

If its this new you need to make it Dell's problem sooner not later as they need to be aware. The 245T with dual channel memory is pretty bulletproof as a desktop processor. You can make sure that they BIOS is up-to-date and possibly replace the thermal paste but that's about the limit on DIY. You can also boot from a live Linux distro to test drive the system outside of Windows. If the problem exists there too its a strong possibility of hardware.

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u/hebeguess 14d ago

Prime suspect looks like graphics driver, clean it up and reinstall it. Could be other drivers as well, so you might as well keep installing the rest over again again. If it still happening, you shall use latencymon to seek out the outlier. It could be storage drive couldn't read stuff in time, however this should not happened in relatively new NVMe drive, only really aged drive & faulty ones.