ryzen 5 1600 seems slow

prozkater

Reputable
Sep 29, 2014
8
0
4,510
Hi,
I have a ryzen 5 1600 system with
asus prime b350-k motherboard
asus gtx 1060 3gb
asus xonar dx sound card
antec gold 550 psu
wd 1tb blue 7200rpm
samsung 1tb 7200rpm
adata 8gb ddr4 ram @2800mhz
windows 10 pro x64

and my system feels slow. i don't notice anything different in terms of performance when it comes to doing daily tasks such as web surfing, opening apps etc as compared to my previous 3rd gen i3 build. Of course it plays games just fine but while opening apps, when i double clicked on it, it opens up only after like 5 seconds, it doesn't open up instantly like my previous builds. Also, i thought ryzen 5 1600 was supposed to be very good in multitasking, but when i install fitgirl games, system hangs like anything and i wouldn't be able to do anything else. i will just have to wait until the game finishes extracting/installing. Well, i could live with everything else except that windows 10 experience in general feels slow and takes longer time opening up things. I am planning to add a SSD drive along with another 8 gigs of ram in the future. But as it is, it shouldn't feel this slow even with a 7200rpm drive. Your thoughts and suggestions please.
 
Mechanical HDD has been slowing PCs on things like booting and opening apps already since a long time even since Intel C2D times. I put an SSD on my old P8700 (Lenovo T400 from 2007 or 2008) laptop 3 years ago and it runs a lot faster.
Your HDD makes almost everything in this category slow, upgrade to SSD ASAP.


 

prozkater

Reputable
Sep 29, 2014
8
0
4,510
thanks for the response, yes i am getting an SSD asap, but i have been using mechanical HDD before also and it wasn't this slow, hence this thread.

also, please suggest which ssd to go for, as mentioned i have asus b350-k motherboard, and i have already used up the pcie slots for my gpu and soundcard. should i get a regular sata iii ssd or ditch my soundcard and get pcie ssd?