Older build. Anything that could be slowing my PC?

[Nathan Staveley]

I've had random freezing while playing games and on PC boot the desktop takes a while to steady out. Any reason for the freezing? I assumed that my 3 monitors with multiple windows might be having an effect on my slower ram. I really went cheap on the ram when I built this gaming rig about 4-5 years ago. Since the first build I have upgraded the GPU.

Operating System
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

CPU
Intel Core i7 2600K @ 3.40GHz
Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology

RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 799MHz (9-9-9-27)

Motherboard
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. SABERTOOTH Z77 (LGA1155)

Graphics
BenQ XL2420Z (1920x1080@144Hz)
ASUS VS238 (1920x1080@60Hz)
BenQ RL2455 (1920x1080@60Hz)
3071MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti (MSI) 48 °C idle

Storage
238GB KINGSTON SV200S3256G ATA Device (SSD)
1863GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH164 ATA Device (SATA)

Thanks! :>

 

[boosted1g]

Could be the aging SSD drive, could be power issues since you did not state what PSU you have.

You said you went cheap on the memory, does that mean itis a cheap brand?

 

[dudeman509]

800 MHz RAM = 1600 in dual-channel. That's fine.

Honestly it might just be Windows itself if it's been on there for some time. One of my laptops just got a fresh re-install, and it's very zippy and doesn't stutter when downloading files and attempting to play music/video anymore (it's a 4-core i7; don't know why it was doing that).