need help choosing a new CPU

[Evatron]

Hi all,

Have been learning a lot of the hardware side of computers lately and I am looking to speed up my machine. i have been browsing processors but not really sure on how to distinguish them for what would suit me best? all i do is play games and render stuff but my issue is just from opening programs after startup. it takes steam like 5 minutes until it starts to load.

currently i have an AMD ryzen 5 2600X 6 core. motherboard is an aorus B450 elite and of what i understand, only takes AMD ryzen CPUs.

Thanks.

 

[Evatron]

now that you mention it i did go back to HDDs which will effect the load times i guess. had bad experiences with SSDs. 2 boot disk failures and 1 go corrupt all on different machines. so from my personal experience i think theyre unreliable.

also me like whirring noise.

 

[Evatron]

well guys i took on what you all said. caved and got an SSD for windows. now my only question is: is it possible to transfer windows to it without having to do a clean installation? because i really cant be assed to reconfigure all the settings and everything again.

thanks.

 

[Evatron]

That's difficult to say without any information. What kind of SSD did you get? Do you have a separate HDD or partition for Windows? Is it big enough to store all of your data?
Generally you can have some issues doing this without having the knowledge necessary, I would really advise to do the clean installation.

its a partitioned HDD at the moment. the SSD is a kingston A400 120GB intended to hold the OS and nothing else.

 

[Evatron]

Then it shouldn't be a problem to just clone the partition, I can also recommend Macrium Reflect.

awesome thanks!