Why does my updated computer still run slow?

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So first I'll mention that I'm fresh out the womb when it comes to computer hardware. That being said I recently decided to do some research and update my pc. I've upgraded all of my hardware except the power and the HDD, so i expected vast performance improvement. However im not noticing much boost SPEED wise. it's originally a 10 year old or so asus essentio 5570. i gutted it and swapped in a new MSI 970 motherboard, an AMD FX 6 core 3.5 ghz cpu (with stock fan cooler), a new case, 8 gigs of RAM, and a sad yet stil better msi graphics card (50 bux or something like that). Yet after all this my boot time has remained relatively the same. The programs are even sometimes stalling in their attempt to open and even something like Spotify can take as much as 20 - 25 seconds to open. It also seems rather inconsistent. After its warmed up for about 6 minutes things start to boot pretty quickly. Now im guessing this all points to my 100 year old 1T HDD, but i want to make sure before i drop duckets on a new SSD, that these issues arent due to my other hardare installations. Also, ive gone into the bios and disabled any tweaks prohibiting my cpu from performing as it should (after i noticed no increase in performance). So any ideas?

P.S. ive ran diagnostics on the memory and it all checks out okay
 
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The general response time of your system is mainly determined by the speed of your HDD, the single item you did not update. The only way to increase software load times (like web browsing apps/games/winamp etc) is to get a faster drive.

Mechanical drives do tend to slow down which generally means it is halfway on his way to the graveyard as the read head takes several tries to access your data.

I would suggest an SSD drive for your operating system at minimum, you will have a much snappier experience. They are about 4-5x faster than your run of the mill HDD. The 850 EVO by Samsung is a good place to start looking.
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The general response time of your system is mainly determined by the speed of your HDD, the single item you did not update. The only way to increase software load times (like web browsing apps/games/winamp etc) is to get a faster drive.

Mechanical drives do tend to slow down which generally means it is halfway on his way to the graveyard as the read head takes several tries to access your data.

I would suggest an SSD drive for your operating system at minimum, you will have a much snappier experience. They are about 4-5x faster than your run of the mill HDD. The 850 EVO by Samsung is a good place to start looking.
 
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This is only if the drive is generating errors and is not inevitable, and is only true on the files that are affected by the errors which would be less than 1% of the total file count.

But you are right the HDD will be the bottleneck, especially if it is an older OEM HDD. it might even be 5400rpm and not 7200rpm if it was a cheap option.
 
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So when a program such as bitorrent sometimes fails to boot and gets "stuck" in an inoperable state, thats due to the hard drive?
 
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i dont believe so. i downloaded the windows 10 iso and booted on start. it took a few and all my previous memory was untouched. i was actually stunned nothing was erased. but regarding a comment earlier yes, it was an oem pc.so my hard drive is probably made in tijuana
 
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What was the previous OS? You Upgraded that to Win 10? Or purchased Win 10 on its own?
Did you do the Win 10 before or after the hardware change?
 
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I had 7 prior to upgrades and moved to window 10 free (still before upgrades).then once i did switch everything out i reinstalled windows 10 through a iso image they offer, and entered my previous rigs OEM code for the previous version so that my 10 copy remained legit

 
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OK. So yes, basically a reinstall of the OS after the hardware change.

Just checking, because attempting to reuse an old OS with new hardware generally results in 1 of 3 situations:
1. It doesn't boot. At all.
2. It works no problem.
3. It works, but with lingering issues.
 
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