i7, 16gb ram, ssd, windows 8.1, slow, why ?

[Scousejoe]

Just wondered if anyone can shine any light on why my pc is slow. It seems every time you upgrade, it's not long before your back to the same old speeds of your old pc.

Can anyone help me determine why ? Where should I look ? Should I have to use tune up utilities ?

 

[KKAW]

Just wondered if anyone can shine any light on why my pc is slow. It seems every time you upgrade, it's not long before your back to the same old speeds of your old pc.

Can anyone help me determine why ? Where should I look ? Should I have to use tune up utilities ?

Full PC Specs please.

If you are talking about Gaming Performance, Gaming Performance is more reliant on GPU rather than CPU.

 

[boju]

The more crap you install that run in the background will bog the system down also, theres only so much the CPU and Ram can handle.

One way to check for application hogs is to open task manager and click memory to order ascend highest to lowest and see which processes/Image name are using large amounts of memory. If not sure what the image name is that ends in .exe, google it, or you can right click and open file location and have some sort of idea where it's from.

 

[jsmithepa]

Is a hardware-software vendors conspiracy. As you feel slow, obviously you throw more hardware-money to it, then having the new hardware, software vendor constantly "upgrade" you whether you need it or not and sell you more features you don't need but takes up more space and resources from your hardware. And back to square 1.

 

[boju]

Oi only the dog chases it's tail ok!!!!! =D

 

[MarkW]

You can load a ton of apps on an I7-4790k and never slow the CPU down. But if you are trying to play games using the onboard graphics, that is why things are slow. You need a discrete video card if you want quick graphics. You spent a few hundred dollars on your CPU. Now do something similar with a GPU (video card), and things will fly along quickly.

 

[Scousejoe]

No Gaming.

Will try your ideas Boju, sounds like a good idea. My thinking is that when I am just using windows and various applications (small footprint) it should be flying !