slow computers

[tod1d]

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, ??

[SlowNA06]

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.

[heavydtheogre]

goto pcpitstop.com, and take the overdrive test, u dont need an account

just scrool down till u see "If you do not wish to create a free user account, you can still run OverDrive anonymously"

and it will tell u if there are problems.

[SlowNA06]

If ur running Win 7 u need more than 2 gb ram.

Untrue. I ran Windows 7 with a single core processor, 1gig, and a solid state hard drive. Runs dandy.

[heavydtheogre]

If ur running Win 7 u need more than 2 gb ram.

[mystic231]

Software got bigger and more bloated to go with your faster computer.

[Odi]

all about those SSD's. HDD's were always the bottleneck.

[heavydtheogre]

all about those SSD's. HDD's were always the bottleneck.

the hybrid HHD/SSD are not all they say, it does run faster, and SSD's are tooo expensive to get big ones.

[MrPoopyButthole]

the hybrid HHD/SSD are not all they say, it does run faster, and SSD's are tooo expensive to get big ones.

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.

[HVACgtp]

Buy a Mac......

[Nickell]

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..

[michaelbm]

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!

[harner]

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.