Upgraded PC, now it's steam-driven

Steve2000

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Admittedly, it's been a while since I've upgraded any computers (about 6 years) short of the odd stick of RAM or hard drive here and there.

Now, I've just upgraded my PC from an old Core 2 Duo to a new AMD 1055T Hex Core CPU, with 6GB DDR3 RAM and a Gigabyte 890 Mobo. Nothing else was upgraded.

Now, when I turn the PC on from cold, it takes a good 1 minute 20 seconds to actually get to the desktop, then another minute or so before it's loaded and I can actually use anything. The whole reason I upgraded is to do away with all this slowness.

Now, my knowledge in this department is probably vastly outdated. I believe the hard drive may have something to do with this. Before I buy another one, will formatting/refreshing do any good? The HDD is fairly new, about a year old. I've installed all the latest chipset/gfx/audio/bios drivers for the new hardware etc.

Any help is appreciated.
 
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Did you do a fresh install of the OS after upgrading, this is most likely the problem.
Try looking in the BIOS to see if there are any additional HDD settings.

Your HDD may support 6Gb/s if it's not already plugged into one of them ports, try it out.
You could also get a 40GB SSD for around £50-£60 if you want good load times and use your current HDD for all your other stuff.
 
If you want quick boot times these days, regardless of what type of system you have - buy a solid state hard drive as Emphacy said. Just read the user reviews of them on OCUK's range. look in the hard drive forum for recommendations.
 
A Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB will provide significantly increased performance versus a standard mechanical hard drive, but nothing quite beats an SSD.
 
Also, for free performance improvements, delete all unused software on your PC, stop anything from running at startup that's unnecessary, and run some computer cleaning software such as (my favourite) Advanced System Care from IObit (available on CNET's downloads page).

You should do this regularly anyway.
 
Thanks for the responses, never really looked into these solid state drives, I'll have a look into them over the weekend.
 
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