Solved slow pc

[bigboi972]

I have posted this topic ones and as a result I reformatted my system. It has not helped my pc speed. Programs open slow and are frequently unresponsive it is I understand that this is old hardware. This time I have posted a video of how unresponsive my system is as you can see programs open very very slow some programs take almost 2 minutes to open and become unresponsive ones open
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi5IW1WWxhU

 

[HarriePateman]

There are multiple things you can do to help speed up your system.

Disk Clean Up, Also try the elevated one here; http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/76383-disk-cleanup-extended.html

General maintenance of your pc I.E delete them old wanted files.

There are many more which im sure you know of, or have tried.

Hardware will play a part in the speed of your system.

Ram is so cheap now, have you thought about investing in some new sticks?

Or maybe its time to upgrade your machine

 

[bigboi972]

There are multiple things you can do to help speed up your system.

Disk Clean Up, Also try the elevated one here; http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/76383-disk-cleanup-extended.html

General maintenance of your pc I.E delete them old wanted files.

There are many more which im sure you know of, or have tried.

Hardware will play a part in the speed of your system.

Ram is so cheap now, have you thought about investing in some new sticks?

Or maybe its time to upgrade your machine

no I have not invested in investing in sticks of ram only for two reason the first is because I thought ram was just used to store the programs that are oepn. So I could have multiple high end applications open at ones like zbrush and photoshop. I never thought it had anything to do with pc performance as far as speed of programs opening and closing. And the second reason is because I just started working and I am saving up to build me a rig I did not wanna put anymore money into this machine unless I thought it was going to be beneficial.

 

[AddRAM]

Defragment the hard drive.

Get it to 0% fragmented.

 

[HarriePateman]

Ram (Random Access Memory) is used for all sorts of things.

It can help with Opening times of Programs, And little bit more performance. Dont get me wrong if you bought some newer faster ram, your pc would improve but not massively.

And your current Pc specs are quite old. So i probably wouldn't invest in any ram.

Like you said just wait until you build your dream machine.

 

[Boozad]

For a start your HDD is only 5400rpm which is a very slow drive, so that will be slowing things down quite noticeably. Your CPU being only 1.6GHz is also going to hamper performance, is this a laptop you have?

If you're using intensive photo editing programs then it's no surprise that it's running slowly to be honest, and short of upgrades there's not a lot you can do. If this is how it's running following a clean install of Windows 7 that's what you'll be stuck with until you invest in a new rig unfortunately.

 

[Thedoctor44]

Ram is so cheap now, have you thought about investing in some new sticks?

On the contrary RAM is more expensive than it has ever been, over £60 to buy 8GB on Amazon.

no I have not invested in investing in sticks of ram only for two reason the first is because I thought ram was just used to store the programs that are oepn. So I could have multiple high end applications open at ones like zbrush and photoshop. I never thought it had anything to do with pc performance as far as speed of programs opening and closing. And the second reason is because I just started working and I am saving up to build me a rig I did not wanna put anymore money into this machine unless I thought it was going to be beneficial.

Regarding RAM, it's not always the amount its the speed and your RAM speed looks pretty slow.
RAM is mainly used for storing applications being run but if you start opening lots of programs simultaneously then your computer will slow down mainly due to RAM being used, more RAM will be paged onto disk and used off of there rather than the RAM itself which is far slower.
Although I don't think this is your cause unless you're opening a lot of programs at once.

 

[HarriePateman]

Ram is so cheap now, have you thought about investing in some new sticks?

On the contrary RAM is more expensive than it has ever been, over £60 to buy 8GB on Amazon.

no I have not invested in investing in sticks of ram only for two reason the first is because I thought ram was just used to store the programs that are oepn. So I could have multiple high end applications open at ones like zbrush and photoshop. I never thought it had anything to do with pc performance as far as speed of programs opening and closing. And the second reason is because I just started working and I am saving up to build me a rig I did not wanna put anymore money into this machine unless I thought it was going to be beneficial.

Regarding RAM, it's not always the amount its the speed and your RAM speed looks pretty slow.
RAM is mainly used for storing applications being run but if you start opening lots of programs simultaneously then your computer will slow down mainly due to RAM being used, more RAM will be paged onto disk and used off of there rather than the RAM itself which is far slower.
Although I don't think this is your cause unless you're opening a lot of programs at once.

But if we are talking about entry level ram, without beautiful heatsinks!

Then we can find it cheaper

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Well bigboi try some of this it will make a fair bit of difference
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11728-optimize-windows-7-a.html

 

[mitchell65]

Ram is so cheap now, have you thought about investing in some new sticks?

On the contrary RAM is more expensive than it has ever been, over £60 to buy 8GB on Amazon.

Well I can remember when 1mb not Gb of RAM was £895 ($1500)

 

[HarriePateman]

Ram is so cheap now, have you thought about investing in some new sticks?

On the contrary RAM is more expensive than it has ever been, over £60 to buy 8GB on Amazon.

Well I can remember when 1mb not Gb of RAM was £895 ($1500)

 

[bigboi972]

For a start your HDD is only 5400rpm which is a very slow drive, so that will be slowing things down quite noticeably. Your CPU being only 1.6GHz is also going to hamper performance, is this a laptop you have?

If you're using intensive photo editing programs then it's no surprise that it's running slowly to be honest, and short of upgrades there's not a lot you can do. If this is how it's running following a clean install of Windows 7 that's what you'll be stuck with until you invest in a new rig unfortunately.

any advise on places or good sites that can help me build a machine I know all the parts I would need to assemble my dream pc. I just dont know which parts I would need to get the performance I want.

 

[bigboi972]

There are multiple things you can do to help speed up your system.

Disk Clean Up, Also try the elevated one here; http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/76383-disk-cleanup-extended.html

General maintenance of your pc I.E delete them old wanted files.

There are many more which im sure you know of, or have tried.

Hardware will play a part in the speed of your system.

Ram is so cheap now, have you thought about investing in some new sticks?

Or maybe its time to upgrade your machine

i agree so long old laptop

 

[HarriePateman]

You're on the right site!

Post in the custom builds forum.

 

[Thedoctor44]

For a start your HDD is only 5400rpm which is a very slow drive, so that will be slowing things down quite noticeably. Your CPU being only 1.6GHz is also going to hamper performance, is this a laptop you have?

If you're using intensive photo editing programs then it's no surprise that it's running slowly to be honest, and short of upgrades there's not a lot you can do. If this is how it's running following a clean install of Windows 7 that's what you'll be stuck with until you invest in a new rig unfortunately.

any advise on places or good sites that can help me build a machine I know all the parts I would need to assemble my dream pc. I just dont know which parts I would need to get the performance I want.

That depends on the performance you want, as in what are you really wanting to use the PC for?

 

[bigboi972]

You're on the right site!

Post in the custom builds forum.

thanks I did not know their was a section for that

 

[HarriePateman]

We have a section for everything!

 

[bigboi972]

For a start your HDD is only 5400rpm which is a very slow drive, so that will be slowing things down quite noticeably. Your CPU being only 1.6GHz is also going to hamper performance, is this a laptop you have?

If you're using intensive photo editing programs then it's no surprise that it's running slowly to be honest, and short of upgrades there's not a lot you can do. If this is how it's running following a clean install of Windows 7 that's what you'll be stuck with until you invest in a new rig unfortunately.

any advise on places or good sites that can help me build a machine I know all the parts I would need to assemble my dream pc. I just dont know which parts I would need to get the performance I want.

That depends on the performance you want, as in what are you really wanting to use the PC for?

I want to make low budget 3d animations I plan on making my own characters and cartoons in zbrush and animate in software like maya, maybe a lot of photoshop and after effects work. and play games like battlefield 4. Other than thats it. Possible video editing one day. I was thinking of getting a macbook laptop because my moms voluntarily going to get me one but I wanna build me a pc system with my own money. I dont know a mac that can do what I want without costing 2000. Im going to sleep now I will respond to any responses in the morning.

 

[Boozad]

For a start your HDD is only 5400rpm which is a very slow drive, so that will be slowing things down quite noticeably. Your CPU being only 1.6GHz is also going to hamper performance, is this a laptop you have?

If you're using intensive photo editing programs then it's no surprise that it's running slowly to be honest, and short of upgrades there's not a lot you can do. If this is how it's running following a clean install of Windows 7 that's what you'll be stuck with until you invest in a new rig unfortunately.

any advise on places or good sites that can help me build a machine I know all the parts I would need to assemble my dream pc. I just dont know which parts I would need to get the performance I want.

What country are you located in?

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Yeah well whatever you do just remember the tutorial I linked mate and if you want some advice on RAM for a build then I use this Welcome to the G.SKILL TECH FORUM Tradesman is especially good on advice for specific boards.

That is not to say there are no super advice members here but if you lie G Skill like I do that is the place to go.