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Sirjp

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Hello,

Approximately 5 months ago I finished a very budget PC gaming build. Over time I have tried to add a few parts towards it to improve performance. Recently I have noticed some slow down during normal PC use.

Current PC spec:

CPU : amd fx 6300 (o.c. to 4ghz)
Motherboard : gigabyte 78-lmt USB 3
Ram : 6gb corsair xms 3 ( 3x 2gb)
GPU : amd 7850 2gb colourware version
HD : WD cavalier 160gb & 1TB ( no ssd)
PSU : 500w corsair
Monitor : 1080p Acer
Case : CIT vantage case
Stock cooling from gpu / cpu and from the case itself, no over heating issues yet with slight o.c on gpu and cpu

Doing a little research on the internet main upgrades I am looking at doing are a 250gb Samsung ( not the pro) SSD, and possibly a water cool kit for cpu as it uses stock heatsink at t
he moment.
I would like to know if there are any better upgrades to make I.e ram ( corsair vengeance?) Or something that would up performance further.

Current game performance is good, ultra on everything at 40+ fps except bf4 which Max at high on multi player.

I am not looking at changing cpu or gpu at this moment in time as they are the most expensive bits and Ithink the ones iI have are fairly decent.

Main PC use is for gaming, wow ( no issues) bf4 works well with some fps drops ( not sure weather due to set up or the fact its developed like shit) cod etc all fine.

Any advice on main parts or beat potential upgrades would be fantastic. Budget = £200 maybe more depending.

Thanks,

J
 
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If you don't mind me asking, what are you doing when you notice the computer performance slowing down. Is it during gaming and if so which game?

I suggest you purchase a better cooler and perhaps a ssd. If you have enough left perhaps upgrade the RAM. From my experience with performance degradation, my graphics card at the time (GTS450) was having trouble running the game i was playing ln high settings and i knew it was capable but wasn't getting enough power so I backed the settings down and it did fine. I knew it was the power because my machine would lag out and restart it self.

Perhaps we can look into the performance issues and maybe fix them without costing you anything.
 
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The only game I am muslti tasking with a lot at
The moment is wow , as that is set to full screen windowed so I can move from one screen to another. Anything such as loading web pages, etc or opening chrome will create a lot of lagg of for 10seconds then will return to normal. I've checkedtask mmanager and there is spare ram and cpu usage. Not sure what's causing the slow down. Am thinking a ssd to boot windows & a couple of games/ major apps and doing a big clean up of the drives to try and resolve it. Maybe a cooler to allow further over clock. I see your point with power. According the manufacturer post 500w should be enough for GPU. Is it work upgrading to a 550 to allow spare?
 
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On bootup, I have to wait somtimes almost a minute for chrome to come up. My harddrive needs to be reformatted, I've just been to lazy to do it. But I know thats most likely the cause for slow boot up of applications. I recommend a fresh OS Re-install every 6 months to a year. I don't like doing it often because it takes forever for me to re-install all my applications.
 
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Even with SATA 2 you will still see a good improvement with programs loading with a SSD - sequential read/write will be higher but random read/write will be much higher. It won't give you any extra FPS but your games and maps will load quicker. A PCI-E SATA 3 card will get you up to around 380mb/s sequential, while SATA 2 limits you to around 280mb/s sequential.
 
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