How to make my computer faster

first thing is NOT enough ram. For crunching textures I use 8gigs. You should at least double your ram..... 4gig.

the 1t HD..... if it's a 5400rpm drive that will also slow things down.

I'm also not a fan of small video cards.

Hi, the problem lies with your memory, photoshop is a memory hog, get another 2 or 4 gig of system memory (depending on your workload multitasking etc. but 4 gig should be enough) and you'll be fine. Programs are trying to access your virtual memory (page file) when you have insufficient memory left, which is a lot slower than system memory.

In the meantime you can close unnecessary background processes that is not needed.

your 5400 rpm hard drive is a liability.

Your ram is need of beef. I run 16 gigs at 2133 matched set. And think sometimes even that is not enough. But that is the best out there unless I start building dual CPU server boards.

Your video card is runt. Newer cards sometimes give you GPU assistance to rendering these days.

Your motherboard determines your maximum design limits. With that in mind, you might want to consider replacing it with a Z68 board to break the limitations you have imposed upon yourself with the slow hardware listed in this thread.

Get an SSD. Photoshop will open much faster.

Also, the larger the drive C: is, the more sparse (fragmented) the files will be, which will obviously take more time to access. This is especially true for HDDs, SSDs not so much. Try to regularly defragment C:, or you could use Diskeeper (or similar) to run in the background. It may take some time when you save a file, but at least it's saved in the optimal place... I remember I had to temporarily stop the process (from the Services lists), because quick saving in games would annoy the crap out of me. And believe me, I save often.

Last but not least, check for viruses.

Don't defrag your HDD it's the most useless optimization tool in existence it'll do more harm than good.

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hi Morgan...
Thanx man....ill increase my ram..
but how can i find my HDD's rpm..i can't open my system it is in under harware waranty...
you mean my video card is small...?

Thank you very much warner...
would you please help me to install another computer (good config) for my personal use...i can spend money for it.

What is your budget and what will you be using the pc for mainly.

hi bro...
thank you verymuch...

ok..
what??? hahahah

Warner..Please tell me your personal email ID..Ill tell you..

Follow these guides for a new PC

http://www.tomshardware.com/system-configuration-recomm...

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/buyers-guide/2011/09/0...

http://www.techspot.com/guides/buying/

Thanx warner...this is so nice...

thanx to TOM's Hardwre site also...

Terribly untrue ....so untrue oh my god is this bad advice

Oh, really now give me one good thing from defragging your HDD exept for maybe shaving a couple of seconds of your boot time, by the way boot times are affected by the size of your registry and the number of dll's that needs to be loaded. Does your gaming FPS gain by 50% when defragging, did not think so. I have always taken the advice to defag my HDD many years ago after i stopped doing that everything was better and faster!!

"Optimization is only worth doing if the increased efficiency outweighs the effort involved"

Don't start something or i might just call you a, you know!

Seek times, and indexing...boot time,s game loading (yes fractions of seconds) that should just about cover it
it will and does increaseread and write times (fractionaly)
will it increase gaming ? well when was the last time you defraged ?
as for effort involved good god man your mom/wife/Girlfriend must have a hell of a time trying to get you to do the dishes

Listen to what you are saying, FRACTION so it's not worth it

Increase fps in games are you serious, I never defraged well at least not since 2004 hence the uselessness in it for me.

I love washing dishes

The only time a defrag might help (fractionally) is if your os is something like 5 years old, but even then it won't really help

I'm talking about personal experience not something I've read in an article or on the internet.

Oh then there is the disk thrashing involved when doing a defrag, just causes unnecessary heat build up.

Don't want to get into an argument, it's just my opinion are we cool?

Whatever you feel like doing with your PC is fine but don't give out bad advice.

get 4 wheels and a turbine engine .. will be real fast