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tod1d

tod1d

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I thought computers were supposed to be fast by now. It still takes just as long to open a spreadsheet program on a 2ghz dual core processor, 2gb ram system as it did on my first computer that had 4mb ram and 33mhz, WTF??
 


It's all about bottlenecks.
Like having a 3.0" pulley without flow mods.
I bet your hard drive sucks.
Pop in a solid state drive and tell me it's not the bees knees.
 


I just bought a new hp laptop, it has win 8. its slow as a turd. but, ive heard win 8 is just a pile of issues, which seems correct lol..
 
heavydtheogre said:
the hybrid HHD/SSD are not all they say, it does run faster, and SSD's are tooo expensive to get big ones.
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Depends on what you call expensive. I have a 512GB, 256GB and a 128GB. I thought they were decently priced.

Control what boots at system boot, clean out junk registries.
 


Harddrives typically go bad VERY often, they can still work but have bad sectors and the pc run like crap..., they normally dont last much longer. I always use hd sentinel on hirens boot cd to test and if its less than 100% and has bad sectors its usually toast.

About 75 percent of slow computers that come into my shop are due to bad harddrives, laptops usually get like 2-3 years and a little more with desktops. Solid state would be the true fix or if not that much cash a good western digital drive is nice!
 
Junk hdd's that come in most big brand names typically go bad often (ESPECIALLY laptops). I have a Maxtor from 1998 that still spins up and runs fine. Not saying high end non-ssd's don't die, but they don't go bad nearly as often in my experience.

I work on PC's on the side every now and then, and I agree most of them are HDD-related issues. I'm a WD fan, myself. I have a 1TB RAID 1 w/WD "black" drives (7200rpm) and a 320GB RAID 0 WD "black" (7200rpm) drive and have not had any problems in over 4 years.

The application issue could be several things. A dual core and 2GB RAM is far from "up to par" for today's technology standards. I run a Linux webserver on a Celeron (single core) piece of crap Dell Dimension something with like 768MB/RAM and it runs like a dream. Then again, having no GUI helps. Boots up much faster than my 4+ year old i7, 12GB RAM desktop running Win8.

Take a backup of your computer, remove some bloat (msconfig to clean up startup apps and run ccleaner to clean up temp files/registry) and you may notice a difference in performance. Reinstalling Windows may help, too. Do some hard drive diagnostics to make sure the drive is okay.
 
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