Why is my mega PC running so slowly
OK so I mainly use my PC for work but the old Dell had was beginning to groan under it's workload and the hard drive was nearly full. As it was about 5 year old I decided to replace it with something faster.
The result was I bought a 64bit, AMD FX (tm)-4130 quad-core processor 3.80GHz, with 16GB of ram and 2 x 250GB Samsung SSD's. It's built on a GA-78LMT-USB3 Gigabyte motherboard
This seemed like overkill and I was anticipating it would fly through my stuff, mainly Excel, Webplus X8 and a bit of word processing all run on Windows 7 professional, but it actually seems to be slower than the old Dell.
I've tried everything I can find, cleared clutter out, reduced the size of my outlook file, been through numerous "do these 10 things to speed up your computer"! lists but it just seems very slow and sometimes hangs with a big Excel spreadsheet.
Before I finally just bin the thing and buy another Dell, has anyone got any ideas of what it might be. I suspect it's got to be something radical simply because anything I do doesn't seem to help?
The base "Windows Experience" scores are processor:7.2, RAM:7.2, graphics:6.6, primary hard disk:6.4 if that helps?
Thank you for your help in this
Gary
OK so I mainly use my PC for work but the old Dell had was beginning to groan under it's workload and the hard drive was nearly full. As it was about 5 year old I decided to replace it with something faster.
The result was I bought a 64bit, AMD FX (tm)-4130 quad-core processor 3.80GHz, with 16GB of ram and 2 x 250GB Samsung SSD's. It's built on a GA-78LMT-USB3 Gigabyte motherboard
This seemed like overkill and I was anticipating it would fly through my stuff, mainly Excel, Webplus X8 and a bit of word processing all run on Windows 7 professional, but it actually seems to be slower than the old Dell.
I've tried everything I can find, cleared clutter out, reduced the size of my outlook file, been through numerous "do these 10 things to speed up your computer"! lists but it just seems very slow and sometimes hangs with a big Excel spreadsheet.
Before I finally just bin the thing and buy another Dell, has anyone got any ideas of what it might be. I suspect it's got to be something radical simply because anything I do doesn't seem to help?
The base "Windows Experience" scores are processor:7.2, RAM:7.2, graphics:6.6, primary hard disk:6.4 if that helps?
Thank you for your help in this
Gary
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