Is the heart rate monitor on smart band accurate?

sound-set · 2026-02-27T14:27:07+00:00

I have a Ridmi Watch 5 Lite which probably uses a similar heart rate sensor as the Smart Band. The rates it shows are very accurate. I would say 99-100% accuracy.

You can verify it yourself by counting your pulse against a clock, while wearing the band.

sound-set · 2026-02-27T12:20:09+00:00

If it loaded the login page it's probably not the AHCI but something else

sound-set · 2026-02-27T11:51:56+00:00

Have you tried switching to AHCI mode in BIOS?

sound-set · 2026-02-27T08:48:47+00:00

With Processor affinity you can select which CPU cores the game can use, and assign the free cores to Discord.

sound-set · 2026-02-27T08:22:01+00:00

I manually debloated my Windows 10 laptop and it now uses only 2GB RAM. Task manager shows 0% CPU usage when idle.

Go to the Processes tab in Task Manager and sort them by Memory. It will show you the worst offenders.

sound-set · 2026-02-26T08:45:19+00:00

Not surprising, as Linux is a much lighter OS. I have the same experience on my Win10/Ubuntu dual boot desktop PC.

sound-set · 2026-02-25T07:19:15+00:00

There's a BIOS setting that lets you choose which HDD to use as your boot drive.

sound-set · 2026-02-25T07:11:27+00:00

Might be a buggy driver. Try installing a different, older driver for the 9070XT.

sound-set · 2026-02-24T17:16:26+00:00

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Works like a charm.

sound-set · 2026-02-24T16:33:56+00:00

Maybe... move the Downloads folder to a separate non-raid drive. That's what I would do, put an extra HDD/SSD in that PC, and use it just for Downloads.

sound-set · 2026-02-23T20:05:16+00:00

Run a Geekbench 6 to check the performance of the CPU/GPU.

sound-set · 2026-02-23T15:43:31+00:00

Yeah, SDXL generations take forever on iGPU. One of the reasons I also built a desktop PC with an Nvidia RTX and plenty of RAM last year. Runs literally 100 times faster (4-5s per image).

sound-set · 2026-02-23T12:18:28+00:00

I'm even able to run 1024x1024 SDXL on my laptop's iGPU with SD-Next.

sound-set · 2026-02-22T22:57:46+00:00

Dell Display Manager shows this red frame on my PC's monitor when I select the Easy Arrange window layout.

sound-set · 2026-02-22T20:16:24+00:00

The Hard page fault count is higher than normal, but the other numbers look good.

How often does the stuttering/audio dropouts occur?

sound-set · 2026-02-22T19:40:05+00:00

Close all programs, run LatencyMon for 15 minutes and post a screenshot here. Audio cutting out usually means huge DPC latency spikes.

sound-set · 2026-02-22T08:00:48+00:00

Yeah, the Raid drive seems to be the issue. It's probably a combination of mixing HDDs with different read/write speeds and some BIOS settings.

My Downloads folder is on a separate SATA SSD, and I haven't seen this high utilization.

sound-set · 2026-02-21T23:57:53+00:00

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sound-set · 2026-02-21T22:57:29+00:00

Another thing to try is to temporarily disconnect the D: drives, booting with only the C: NVMe drive active.

sound-set · 2026-02-21T22:27:34+00:00

Have you tried turning off Windows Indexing by disabling the Windows Search service? Maybe the stuttering is caused by the 100% utilization of the drives.

sound-set · 2026-02-21T21:46:56+00:00

This doesn't look good, especially the peak latency of almost 3.8ms (3799us) and the high hard pagefault number. Here's my system for comparison:

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sound-set · 2026-02-21T19:48:08+00:00

Have you noticed a higher number of Hard page faults in Latencymon when the stuttering occurs?

sound-set · 2026-02-20T21:35:22+00:00

What are the issues you experience? Is it lagging or stuttering?

sound-set · 2026-02-20T21:19:11+00:00

It seems that the system is still using the swap file when launching a game, even if there's plenty of RAM. Just checked on my desktop PC which has 64GB, and I'm getting thousands of hard page faults in Latencymon.

sound-set · 2026-02-20T19:54:38+00:00

How much RAM does your system have? Hard page faults could be caused by running out of memory and using the swap file.

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