I know there are tons of these threads but I tend to be picky and indecisive with these sorts of things so I decided to start my own thread. First of all, my rig is ~6 years old. I have an Intel Motherboard DP45SG, Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83 GHz, Nvidia GTX 570 with 1280MB GDDR5 memory, 4GB of ADATA DDR3 RAM, and a cheap 500 GB Western Digital HDD. My PSU is 550W.
I'm thinking that I definitely want a faster HDD and to replace my RAM with 8GB of another brand of RAM, but I also wonder what the most common reasons for significant slowdown of performance would be. I know that the HDD isn't performing well (it can take a few minutes for a movie to begin playing, loading screens in games are routinely 30 seconds or longer), but my gut is telling me that there's more to it as things ran much much faster when I first got the PC and my Windows installation (win7 ultimate x64) is only a few months old.
The GPU I got from a friend who was doing a rebuild about 8 months ago, I don't know how long he had it but it runs games like a dream. The PSU is a little over a year old. At one point about a year ago I was getting a memory failure code on startup as well, but switching the RAM to the other two slots fixed that problem which seems really odd to me, compounded with the fact that the onboard sound failed within 6 months of my original purchase. Any ideas as to whether the mobo could be going bad?
Premature thanks for anyone who bothers to answer!
I'm thinking that I definitely want a faster HDD and to replace my RAM with 8GB of another brand of RAM, but I also wonder what the most common reasons for significant slowdown of performance would be. I know that the HDD isn't performing well (it can take a few minutes for a movie to begin playing, loading screens in games are routinely 30 seconds or longer), but my gut is telling me that there's more to it as things ran much much faster when I first got the PC and my Windows installation (win7 ultimate x64) is only a few months old.
The GPU I got from a friend who was doing a rebuild about 8 months ago, I don't know how long he had it but it runs games like a dream. The PSU is a little over a year old. At one point about a year ago I was getting a memory failure code on startup as well, but switching the RAM to the other two slots fixed that problem which seems really odd to me, compounded with the fact that the onboard sound failed within 6 months of my original purchase. Any ideas as to whether the mobo could be going bad?
Premature thanks for anyone who bothers to answer!
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