Slower Performance than my parent's slower PC.

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My PC is a gaming rig, though not a high end but certainly much better than my parent's PC, mine is an FX 6300 Black Edition, a GTX 650 (non ti) and 6GB DDR3-1600, they have an AMD A6-5200, integrated GPU and 6GB DDR3-1333. Basic tasks such as opening programs, searching in the search bar and login/boot time is much slower for me than theirs, only difference is my Windows is installed via DVD and theirs came as OEM. Would that change performance? All my hardware is better and games even run smooth as ever.
 
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160GB HD. I take it this is an older drive. That could be it. Every time windows tries to access the older drive, it chokes. I had that problem on my system, which is in my sig, and by no way a slouch, but anything I tried to do stuff, it was killing me. Looking at the resource monitor as I did stuff, I could see my drive spiking with any access to it, and sometimes not even reading anything off it. Using old HD's in a new build can drag a ferrari down to bike speeds. If the 232 is really a 250gb old drive, then it could be dying too. Bad sectors, wear on the drive, will slow it right down regardless of the RAM, CPU.
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If your games run smooth and fine, but bootup and general windows things take too long, than, as I said, you windows is probably full of crap. A clean windows install with minimumal stuff installed on a dual core can run faster than an I7 bogged down with too many start up item, viruses, spyware, etc.
 
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160GB HD. I take it this is an older drive. That could be it. Every time windows tries to access the older drive, it chokes. I had that problem on my system, which is in my sig, and by no way a slouch, but anything I tried to do stuff, it was killing me. Looking at the resource monitor as I did stuff, I could see my drive spiking with any access to it, and sometimes not even reading anything off it. Using old HD's in a new build can drag a ferrari down to bike speeds. If the 232 is really a 250gb old drive, then it could be dying too. Bad sectors, wear on the drive, will slow it right down regardless of the RAM, CPU.
 
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That's very possible too, my parent's bought a refurbished Gateway desktop with a 500GB HDD, with more space used than mine, although my HDD's have been used by older PC's we used to have, thrown in a box and taken out again, you're probably correct.
 
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