Non-updated Windows 8 or other drivers causing slowness?

[yodachoda]

Hi all,

I bought a $1500 PC from Cyberpower PC about a week ago. It's got some very high end components and is probably close to as fast as a PC as you can get today for a sub $2000 price.

However, twice it was EXTREMELY slow. The first time, it was soon after I first turned it on. I updated some drivers and updated windows and restarted...it was then very fast.

I then turned it off for the night and when I next turned it on, it was very slow again. I restarted and again it was very slow. I then noticed there was another Windows update, so I did that, restarted a third time, and it was very fast when it booted up again.

I've had the PC on for a few days now and each day it has remained very fast. I'm kinda nervous about shutting it down, unless the slowness was simply due to the non-updated version of Windows.

So my question is, is a non-updated Windows 8 enough to make the entire system very slow? Thanks.

 

[USAFRet]

It was 'slow', probably because it was collecting and installing all the current updates.

 

[yodachoda]

It was 'slow', probably because it was collecting and installing all the current updates.

Most of the updating and installing I did on the first day displayed the progress. During this slowness, nothing was displayed so if you are right, it was updating in the background...

 

[USAFRet]

Wait, and see if it happens again.

 

[yodachoda]

It's still happening. I'm getting about 6 fps in Starcraft 2 and everything is slow. The mouse trails and there is a delay between all clicks.

Then I restart the PC one or two times and it becomes blazing fast. 60fps in Starcraft 2 and all mouse clicks/actions are instantaneous.

The issue seems to only occur after the PC has been shut off and is first turned on.

I've checked all windows and driver updates several times and it seems to be up to date.