New Build for my mum.

Askania

Askania

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Currently my mum is using the PC I left behind in Australia which I built in 2016.

Components:
Z170A Gaming Pro Carbon,
i7-8700K,
32 MB Ram
Gigabyte GTX1050
Cougar 1000w PSU.
Thermaltake 360 RBG AIO

For sometime it has not always been turning on properly just on the odd occasion, but you turn ity off and on again and it works fine, and I know thats a PSU issue, and it needs a new GPU. However mum has said that it has been running extremely slow and thats not a ram issue being as she has twice as much as I do. Bearing in mind she is on a pension do I get her the parts for a complete system rebuild reusing the full ATX tower and the RAM or is it as simple as replacing the GPU and PSU. Unlike me she is not a gamer, she plays one windows search and find game, uses email, facebook and does her online banking and bill paying so she doesn't need a gaming pc, but it does need to last at least as long as the current one, preferably closer to 10 years when shell be 86.

Appreciate the advice in advance :D:):p:cool:;)
 
Askania said:
will it last her another 10 years or close to though
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Yes, probably.

You definitely should not need a new PC. The slowness is unrelated to the hardware having aged. My daily driver that I'm typing on now is slower than that PC and it works fine :)

What is the SSD being used? It might be near full?
 
does it become slow right from when it has started up or after? I ask because sime people have a habit of keeping a hundred tabs open in a browser, and some, like my firefox will open all the tabs that were open whwn the browser is started up again from whenis waslosed down,
I echo the reinstallation of an OS, which could fix all the problems, but I appreciate that you are not home to do that, and she might lose some of her stuff, maybe get a computer tech out to do a reinstallation and maybe test the ram sticks bt swapping them around a bit in the ram slots too :)
yeah, I advise getting a well reviewed third party involved
 
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Threepwood said:
does it become slow right from when it has started up or after? I ask because sime people have a habit of keeping a hundred tabs open in a browser, and some, like my firefox will open all the tabs that were open whwn the browser is started up again from whenis waslosed down,
I echo the reinstallation of an OS, which could fix all the problems, but I appreciate that you are not home to do that, and she might lose some of her stuff, maybe get a computer tech out to do a reinstallation and maybe test the ram sticks bt swapping them around a bit in the ram slots too :)
yeah, I advise getting a well reviewed third party involved
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Thanks, I'll get her to take it in for a clean up and reinstall windows she's good at closing her browser tabs usually but I'll do some interogating to be sure :cry::p
 
Askania said:
Currently my mum is using the PC I left behind in Australia which I built in 2016.

Components:
Z170A Gaming Pro Carbon,
i7-8700K,
32 MB Ram
Gigabyte GTX1050
Cougar 1000w PSU.
Thermaltake 360 RBG AIO

For sometime it has not always been turning on properly just on the odd occasion, but you turn ity off and on again and it works fine, and I know thats a PSU issue, and it needs a new GPU. However mum has said that it has been running extremely slow and thats not a ram issue being as she has twice as much as I do. Bearing in mind she is on a pension do I get her the parts for a complete system rebuild reusing the full ATX tower and the RAM or is it as simple as replacing the GPU and PSU. Unlike me she is not a gamer, she plays one windows search and find game, uses email, facebook and does her online banking and bill paying so she doesn't need a gaming pc, but it does need to last at least as long as the current one, preferably closer to 10 years when shell be 86.

Appreciate the advice in advance :D:):p:cool:;)
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Why does it have a 1000 watt psu????

My mom has an Intel core i3 8100 and it’s fine, I just made sure that it’s using a very good SSD and it’s still fantastic to this day.
 
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