SSD or No SSD

ryan4227

ryan4227

ryan4227

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Hi I am currently running a a decent mid spec system.

AMD Phenom II 965 3400 MHZ C3 125 TDP
Asus M3N-HD/HDMI Nforce 750a SLI
2GB Kingston Ram DDR 800 MHZ
XFX Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTS 320 MB
250GB Maxtor Diamond Max 21 HDD ( not made anymore)
LITEON DVD-RAM
ICUTE CASE
Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit
Corsair Vx 550 psu

I seem to be suffering slow preformance in every day tasks doesn't seem to preform as should possibly a slow hard disk to blame.

I currently work with latops they seem to be really snappy in windows 7 compared to my pc seems strange and os has been installed similar amounts of time always been a little slow. Also my friend runs intel core 2 due with a diffrent hd but his windows seems to really fast.

I was thinking of getting a SSD and using the maxtor as a storage drive Budget would be around £140 Board is Sata 3gb

Let me know if anything else could be affecting preformance and suggest some SSD's amd how drastic preformance increase would be

Regards Ryan

ps :Boot and shutdown can be slow most of the time.
Also i game every day
 
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2GB of RAM won't be helping, I'd get another 2GB, also might be worth downloading crystaldiskinfo and doing a hard drive bench and posting a screenshot so we can see what your read/write speeds are.
 
If you do buy more memory you will need 64bit windows too.
I find that a fresh reinstall of windows does wonders - if its been running for around 6 months or more.
Buying an SSD is next on my list having seen how good they are - it can have a dramatic boost to system performance
 
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Images working now, your hard drive shouldn't be causing the slow down you describe, I'm still guessing it's because you're only running 2GB of RAM.
 
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ok Thanks

i am hesitant to put more ram in my system because i fell i am investing in old tech buying more ddr2 rather than getting current using a new board for the cpu and upgrading to dd3

Cheers for your help

Regards ryan
 
An SSD upgrade is on par with upgrading CPU or GFX card these days.
It will make your machine slick and feel all new again.
The benefits of moving to an SSD cannot be overstated enough.

The amount of people out there that must be having older machines (laptops or desktops) slowing down on them and just rushing out to replace them and not realising they could have a super slick computer running for a fraction of the cost of a new machine just by installing an SSD. If only people knew.

Get an SSD Ryan you won't regret it and you can always move it to a future new machine.
 
Your current drive is'nt that slow, its only about on average 20-25MB/s slower then a samsung F3.

I would have to agree a ram increase will work wonders, but also a fresh install or clean up of your current instal may help.

Download this http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

Run it to clean up all the junk thats floating about, run the registery option aswell, both will give ur install a quick clean up, can work wonders.
 
2gb with win 7 is fine for normal operation, and I would not expect significant slow downs as a result.

Much more likely is a build up of start up applications and services filling that memory unnecessarily, and significantly slowing the boot process.

Another possibility is one of the bloatware security packages - norton, mcaffee etc, which hog system resources, and hook in to the system everywhere, slowing it down.

I suggest as a first step (before investing money) would be to

1 - remove any bloaty security software, and replace with avast or MS security essentials. You'll need to reboot to check for improvement.

2 - If the machine still runs slow, use task manager to identify if any application is using too much memory, or significant cpu, and remove it if you can.

3 - download Microsoft autoruns. Tell it to hide all Microsoft entries (in options) and then turn off everything you don't recognise or really need. You can always turn it on again if something stops working. (What you are doing here is disabling stuff that loads at start up. A lot of it will be junk from software you installed, but don't use. You can easily disable/enable using autoruns) You'll need to reboot after this process to see if there is any improvement.

If after doing this, you are still running slowly, then an ssd upgrade may be beneficial. But only if it is disk access that is slowing you down. If it is memory or cpu then the ssd will make no difference.
 
Hey guys thanks for the replies

The ram upgrade may be a good idea but I do run a fairly minimal system very little system resources used

I've done the usual but really fancy getting an SSD because people are raving about them and i also feel I will be getting more potential out of the CPU that way and plan to the big upgrade around Christmas (motherboard and ram)

Cheers guys what SSD would you suggest for me? really can't make my mind up

Cheers guys

Regards Ryan
 
it will max out the connection, just had a quick read of the wiki sata stats, and a move to a sata3.0 connection/motherboard won't be a necessity.
 
I would first get rid of any unnecessary startup programs running in the background and any service that are not needed, then disk cleanup and a defrag. Make sure all you drivers are up to date and i think you will be all good again :)
 
Hey guys

Thanks I am still stuck for choice between c300 and vertex 2e the c300 sounds more future proof but low write speeds it may be better if I'm upgrading to Sata 6gb but what I've read the vertex 2e firmware is better

What do you guys think I should go for between those 2

Regards Ryan

I am very greatfull for all input :)
 
If you're experiencing slow responses and stuff on that setup, I'd first recommend reinstalling windows. It should easily be faster than the laptops and the C2D setup you mentioned.

After that, I'd 4gb of considor faster RAM.

Only then would I considor an SSD.
 
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