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I always had 12GB of ram installed, which I think should be plenty in general. The only trouble I have regarding ram maybe is that I have a have quite a lot of tabs open in my browser, but a tab suspender reduces memory usage, so I hope the currently 381 tabs are not the problem. I have been operating like that for years, just the tab suspender is new..
It is just a little cat and mouse game. When I first installed your driver, loading youtube caused the "switch", that scrolling in other tabs even text based tabs became very cpu intense and lagging. Yesterday youtube somehow worked fine as expected, but the loading of the comments section of Aktuelle News: Nachrichten aus Berlin und der Welt – Tagesspiegel caused it/ it happend after loading.
Unfortunately my knowledge of graphics programming/drivers/apis is rather non existant, but my idea was that maybe hardware acceleration is somehow turned off in those situations temporarily and replaced by cpu emulation causing the load spike and this failure of hardware acceleration may somehow happen due to faulty drivers?
Thanks for the idea with the Sata driver. This is the driver I have currently installed. Seems non generic to me and I cant find a newer one.
You are right about cleaning. As my hinge is broken again I will have to open up half of the computer and will combine it with cleaning and reapplying thermal paste after nearly 9 years. But if graphics work correctly with passive/non audible cooling I stay within 60-70°C whilst browsing, just like it used to do in 2012. In the "defect" mode browsing becomes a noisy pain due to the heat which is difficult to go back to after this long time of near total silence.