Unexpected Loading/General Slowness

wxyzsupermod

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Mar 8, 2013
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Hi I built my new gaming PC about a month ago, and it works great but while in games it destroys it has unexpectedly long loading times for even simple things like Google chrome. It took my PC about one minute to open chrome. I know this is not that long but this cost almost 1,000 dollars I expected better but as I said in games it performs great 120 fps in BF4 online 64 man servers the specs are as follows
I5 4670k stock speed + cooler
xfx double d r9 270
4gb ddr3 1600 ram
msi CSM-H81-P32 mobo
1 terabyte hard drive I'm assuming is at 7200rpm
windows 7 ultimate 64bit
if you could help me find what is causing the slowness I would be much obliged I have run several virus scans with norton and can't find any problems the worst score in windows experience index is the hard drive at 5.9 while everything else sits at 7.6 to 7.8
any help is greatly appreciated
 
Solution
your rig first off has low about of ram for a gaming rig. with 4g of ram if a lot of stuff is loading at start up it going to fill your ram and then the system going to have to use the slower hard drive and your swap file. I would first us msconfig and in the start up tab turn every thing off but your anti virus software. run cpu-z check that your ram is running at 1600 speed and your mb bios has the newest bios file. in the bios turn off onboard video to free up some ram and set the gpu as first video device. make sure you have the newest intel chipset drivers installed so your hard drive running at it max speed.
run hd tune and check your system performance. make sure the sata chipset set to achi mode for speed.
your rig first off has low about of ram for a gaming rig. with 4g of ram if a lot of stuff is loading at start up it going to fill your ram and then the system going to have to use the slower hard drive and your swap file. I would first us msconfig and in the start up tab turn every thing off but your anti virus software. run cpu-z check that your ram is running at 1600 speed and your mb bios has the newest bios file. in the bios turn off onboard video to free up some ram and set the gpu as first video device. make sure you have the newest intel chipset drivers installed so your hard drive running at it max speed.
run hd tune and check your system performance. make sure the sata chipset set to achi mode for speed.
 
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