- Feb 24, 2015
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Hi, I have recently been experiencing a slower computer than what I should have based on my specs.
Specs:
I have one of these http://support.hp.com/us-en/product/HP-Pavilion-HPE-h8-Desktop-PC-series/5187019/model/5212309/document/c03179852#N68
And I switched out the GPU for a NVIDIA GTX 650 TI 2GB
switched out the PSU for a 750w PSU
and switched out the old HDD for a new 1TB WD Black HDD which shows 10x better performance in crystal disk mark.
This leaves me with the same MOBO, same RAM, same Soundcard, and CPU. I bought the origional rig refurbished with the quad-core processor hyper-threaded up to 8-cores. And i have windows 7 home premium.
On start up, it takes about a minute until i can do anything. This is because my desktop icons constantly refresh themselves, and it is slow to load up any programs. I originally questioned whether it was the slow original HDD, and so I switched over to the 1TB WD Black harddrive, which did give much better performance for a while, until recently when it has started to slow down. CrystalDiskMark still gives it a average of 125-135 read/write speed, which is much faster than the old HDD, but this startup problem still persists, and so I want to make sure that my rig is as safe, and good as it can be.
I've also questioned whether i could have a virus infection, and so i've looked in task manager for any suspicious programs. I have found two instances of conhost.exe, one of which i can open the file location to the system 32 directory, and the other does nothing when i try to open its file location. This is the same for my winlogon.exe and csrss.exe, of which i am also suspicious of.
My last suspicious is that my MOBO Is not capabale of keeping up with all the upgrades that i've applied to my computer, since it is meant for the Pavilion setup, but i've added a new HDD and GPU and PSU.
Sorry for the long post, but this is my first post and i wanted to include all the details i could in order to get a correct diagnosis. Thanks you!
Specs:
I have one of these http://support.hp.com/us-en/product/HP-Pavilion-HPE-h8-Desktop-PC-series/5187019/model/5212309/document/c03179852#N68
And I switched out the GPU for a NVIDIA GTX 650 TI 2GB
switched out the PSU for a 750w PSU
and switched out the old HDD for a new 1TB WD Black HDD which shows 10x better performance in crystal disk mark.
This leaves me with the same MOBO, same RAM, same Soundcard, and CPU. I bought the origional rig refurbished with the quad-core processor hyper-threaded up to 8-cores. And i have windows 7 home premium.
On start up, it takes about a minute until i can do anything. This is because my desktop icons constantly refresh themselves, and it is slow to load up any programs. I originally questioned whether it was the slow original HDD, and so I switched over to the 1TB WD Black harddrive, which did give much better performance for a while, until recently when it has started to slow down. CrystalDiskMark still gives it a average of 125-135 read/write speed, which is much faster than the old HDD, but this startup problem still persists, and so I want to make sure that my rig is as safe, and good as it can be.
I've also questioned whether i could have a virus infection, and so i've looked in task manager for any suspicious programs. I have found two instances of conhost.exe, one of which i can open the file location to the system 32 directory, and the other does nothing when i try to open its file location. This is the same for my winlogon.exe and csrss.exe, of which i am also suspicious of.
My last suspicious is that my MOBO Is not capabale of keeping up with all the upgrades that i've applied to my computer, since it is meant for the Pavilion setup, but i've added a new HDD and GPU and PSU.
Sorry for the long post, but this is my first post and i wanted to include all the details i could in order to get a correct diagnosis. Thanks you!
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