My computer is SUPER slow.

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Hi!

I need help in finding out what is making my PC so incredibly slow.

MSI Radeon R9 270X Gaming 2GB GDDR5
AMD FX-8350 8-Core Processor
Crucial DDR3 BallistiX Elite 1866Mhz 16GB
Cooler Master G600, 600W PSU
Hitachi HDS7210 Harddrive
100MB Internet

^^Thats my setup

Everything is slow, opening Chrome, opening windows in general, and steam, and everything you can think of on the computer is slow. Its driving me nuts!

Is there something wrong in one of the components? What could it be?

Thanks!
 
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Well, you say everything is 'slow', step number one in determining why is to take a look at what you have from a hardware perspective. From your build description, you have a moderately high end system, 8 core processor, good, fast RAM and a bunch of it, mid-high range graphics, but a spinny hard drive. That's the only weak point in the build, and with what you have I would have gone with a 128GB (or 256GB) SSD along with a HDD for installing games/programs to. Reason why is that SSDs are a order of magnitude faster than HDDs for both random access, and (this is important) windows virtual memory/swap file. Having a fast boot drive is very important for this.

Beyond that, assuming that your HDD isn't the problem, you need to know...
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Yeah, i was afraid it could be that, i did a reinstall of windows a couple of months ago.

 
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The motherboard i dont know...
The slowness started a couple of weeks ago
and whats Checkdisc?

 
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Open a file explorer window, right click on the c drive, goto properties / tools and start the error checking. That needs a reboot for the c drive. It may correct some file system errors or report serious problems, like relocated sectors. Last case indicates the need for a new drive. Come back here with the results.
 
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Well, you say everything is 'slow', step number one in determining why is to take a look at what you have from a hardware perspective. From your build description, you have a moderately high end system, 8 core processor, good, fast RAM and a bunch of it, mid-high range graphics, but a spinny hard drive. That's the only weak point in the build, and with what you have I would have gone with a 128GB (or 256GB) SSD along with a HDD for installing games/programs to. Reason why is that SSDs are a order of magnitude faster than HDDs for both random access, and (this is important) windows virtual memory/swap file. Having a fast boot drive is very important for this.

Beyond that, assuming that your HDD isn't the problem, you need to know how many processes you have running after the computer is started. Each one of those processes chews up CPU time and RAM - chewing up CPU time means your computer is busy doing more things than it should, and RAM means more swapping of the virtual memory (which involves dumping stuff to and from the HDD which is slow).

So - (assuming windows 7), right click on the task bar, then 'Start Task Manager', click the 'processes' tab, then click 'Show processes from all users'. Just as a frame of reference, my Win7 install, all processes - I have 47 running and it's on a quad core Athlon II 640. My computer is plenty quick and snappy (SSD/4GB of 1333 RAM) and boots in about 10 seconds flat. CPU usage right now is about 8-10%.

Another frame of reference, I have an i5-4670k at home, 8Gb of 1600 RAM, Samsung 830 128GB ssd, Radeon HD 6770, and it boots in about 6 seconds flat. It has about 50 processes running at any given time, CPU usage is 4-5% max during idle.

So - let us know what's going on a little bit more with your system (not just hardware), CPU usage at idle (ok, a computer is never really 'idle'), physical memory in use, and processes with minimal programs running (after a boot up with only a browswer running).
 
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In physical memory it says, "Total: 3326, Available: 1772
I have 56 in processes.

Sorry, I'm not a pro at this, is there anything else?
 
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You appear to be running a 32 bit Windows OS which only recognizes/uses 3.5 GB of ram. It's either that or you have several bad memory sticks or a memory controller problem. That would limit the number of processes that can be run at one time before the page file on the HDD is used. That could explain some of the slowness.

"Speccy" is a free program that will identify all of your hardware.
 
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Funny you would say that, i was just about to upgrade from 32bit to 64bit, im burning it over on a dvd.

 
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That's the first thing I noticed too. I was going to make that the first suggestion as you've cut your available ram to about 40% of what you actually have. First rule of thumb is make sure the system is working properly, and getting 64bit Windows on a machine with more than 4GB ram is step #1. :)

 
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