Should my PC be as slow as it is?

[nicolas277]

I custom built a decent to low end gaming PC several months ago and I've noticed it seems slower than I expect it to be. After booting up my PC in the morning, I often have to wait several minutes for things to be opening at a decent speed. I have insanely long load times on PUBG, sometimes over a minute on low settings, and experience a lot of framerate drops, sometimes from 100fps to a complete standstill for several seconds. Can someone tell me if my PC should be running this slow, and if not how to help? Specs are below.
CPU: Ryzen 5 1600
GPU: EVGA GTX 1060 6gb
MOBO: Gigabyte GA-AB350 Gaming 3
RAM: G. Skill Ripjaws V 8gb DDR4
PSU: Corsair 550W Bronze+

I have my GPU, CPU, and memory overclocked to the point where nothing has a chance of overheating.

 

[James Mason]

SSD or HDD?
As an HDD get's fuller, it gets a bit slower, SSDs far less so.

 

[antishill]

Low setting or high settings for games will not matter very much for your loading times. Load for over "a" as in 1 minute on a HDD is pretty much par for the course. We need to see more detailed specs of you build. For starters we need to know the storage devices as well as your memory timings being used. Get a screen capture, photo of your screen from your phone or something, of you bios for your memory setup if that is easier.

 

[nicolas277]

Low setting or high settings for games will not matter very much for your loading times. Load for over "a" as in 1 minute on a HDD is pretty much par for the course. We need to see more detailed specs of you build. For starters we need to know the storage devices as well as your memory timings being used. Get a screen capture, photo of your screen from your phone or something, of you bios for your memory setup if that is easier.

HDD: Seagate BarraCuda ST2000DM006 2TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive
RAM speed: 8gb 2400 overclocked to 2666

 

[antishill]

Is that a single stick of 8GB or 2x4GB. You are losing half of your memory bandwidth if you only have a single stick forcing the system to operate at single channel memory instead of dual channel.

If all you got is a HDD for storage, your load times is not going to be fast. Loading on the order of 1+ minute is pretty much to be expected. You be best to close turn off all other applications when you are in game. Because the moment it runs out of memory, it is going to need to make use of your slow harddisk, and that will get the system to stall for several seconds at the very least.