Extremely slow pc with decent specs!

dieven

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Oct 20, 2014
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I have a "gaming" PC that's getting a little dated. Specsa is i5 2500k, GTX 560Ti, P8P67 motherboard, 500GB hdd, 4G ram and corsair h60 cpu cooler and win 7 home premium (not activated due to formatting)

for over a year, my PC has been incredibly slow. Google Chrome uses about 1-2 minutes and load and World of Warcraft can take up to 5 minutes and load the first zone I log on. Also very slow to load zones.

I have "clean" pc for the dust, but not new thermal paste (do not know if that's why) I have formatted my PC, my PC has zero viruses (virus scan) Checked defrag and was nothing there. Have updated all driver!

Have seen again cpu is very warm (about 70 *c in the bios, but appears around 50*c with core temp.

Think maybe the HDD might defect?

Could it be that I have not put on new thermal paste on for two years?

Any help would be awesome thanks. (sorry for bad english)
 
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1) The hard drive could be defective, that's always a possibility on older machines. Use HDTune to check your hard drive's health.

2) If it had cheap thermal paste on it, then yeah, two years is right about the period where it starts to turn into nothing more than dust. Worth checking. Those are very high temperatures if they're at idle.

3) What virus scan did you use? That's not a guarantee of being virus-free.

4) Like all editions of windows, the performance 'rots' over time. Make sure that you don't have a lot of programs that open automatically when you start your computer, that you don't have a lot of browser add-in bars, ect. I would get REVO uninstaller and go through and get rid of the things you never use.
1) The hard drive could be defective, that's always a possibility on older machines. Use HDTune to check your hard drive's health.

2) If it had cheap thermal paste on it, then yeah, two years is right about the period where it starts to turn into nothing more than dust. Worth checking. Those are very high temperatures if they're at idle.

3) What virus scan did you use? That's not a guarantee of being virus-free.

4) Like all editions of windows, the performance 'rots' over time. Make sure that you don't have a lot of programs that open automatically when you start your computer, that you don't have a lot of browser add-in bars, ect. I would get REVO uninstaller and go through and get rid of the things you never use.
 
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