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Lukey_AMD

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Hi guys hope this is in the right or at least acceptable category.

I recently just finished my gaming pc build, 3 days ago. The first few days were fine.. Until i travelled with it to show a brother, then back to mine, then back to my partners.

It started with IE11 being slow so i started using google chrome and that's solved.

But now the system is generally a bit slow for almost no apparent reason. My sys specs are:

Athlon II x4 750k cpu
8gb corsair 1600mhz
Gigabyte G1 sniper a88x
MSI Radeon R9 270 2GB
Kingston V300 120GB SSD
Windows Pro 7 64bit
EVGA 650W Gold PSU

The SSD has only 30GB left, so could be something based on the SSD performance? (only scoring 5.9 on windows index rating)

I've also noticed the lack of overclocking but know full well, people overclock using my MoBo, and my cpu is OC'able.

It used to take 18 seconds approx to start up and be loaded. Now it can take minutes or some time not bother at all, resulting in me turning it off and giving up.

I have no idea about alot of pc related talk and definately lack knowledge of anything other than basic knowledge (i guess).

Can anybody suggest anything? Or at least ask some questions that i can reply to in order to narrow this down?.

any help would be very much appreciated
 
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mbarnes86

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Hi

From a hardware side
Use some thermal monitoring software to see if high temperature causing processor to slow down. If so check heat sink secured properly and fan running correct speed
Look on driver cd first for thermal monitoring software

Run memtest86 from a bootable cd or USB to test ram

Run whatever Kingston recommends to test SSD

Then move on to look at what software is running in the background
Including malware
What av software are you using?

Regards
Mike Barnes
 
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Lukey_AMD

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The temps are fine, I've played 2 games one being sniper elite 3 with flawless performance and even the standard heatsink fan is adequate. (will be buying 212 evo).

I will try to get the programs you mentioned but possibly wont be able to as pc crashed trying to get msi afterburner.

also, ram is working fine and cpu barely goes over 30% when loading all files on start up (have a monitor in top right corner for cpu and ram). The air blowing out of case is pretty cool except after some gaming even then its more than cool enough cpu approx 50c. In task manager there were 41 processes running on start up.

As for AV im just using Microsoft essentials (or whatever its full name is).. Worryingly though when i did a full scan, it scanned over 1million files.. Is that right??.. Considering i only have bare minimums on there plus 2 games, google earth and some extras from driver cd.

I would boot the pc up right now but have a living room full of guests watching a film. So cant do much right now, any other suggestions?.

also for boot options in bios(UEFI) i had 2 before putting OS on, now there's 3. (ssd, dvd drive and now UEFI ssd) the UEFI SSD is the one it now boots from and never works using the normal named SSD. Is that normal too?
 
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jshoop

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you're only supposed to fill about 70% of the ssd, once you past that it slows down alot. i suggest getting a hdd for storage, and just have programs and os on the ssd.

im not sure about the 2 ssds, that seems wierd. if worse comes to worse back up your data and reinstall windows on the ssd
 
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Lukey_AMD

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Yeah i read that about SSD's, Im not putting anything else on there. But from what I've read, if i delete the games from SSD .. The damage is already done, because of semi filled blocks?.. Or will it speed up again? (assuming the slowness is because of the SSD) but at the same time i doubt it is this because of people who use 30gb ssd for OS use 2/3rds of that and have no problems?
 
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