Very Slow computer

[John Verdernshmits]

Alright, my system is extremely slow, it takes like a minuet to load a webpage and loading up programs such as Skyrim which takes like 5 minuets to load, but when I'm in game It's not laggy at all. It is also slow when I tab out on Sims 4 and I have occasional lag spikes. My CPU has eight cores so it shouldn't have an issue with multi-tasking. My old computer which had a Pentium 4 and a HD5450 was faster at loading stuff

My Specs are:
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64
CPU: FX-8350 Eight-core Processor @4GHz
GPU: MSI R7 250 1GB GDDR5
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 4GB @1600MHz
MB: ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0
HDD: (Main) Western Digital 160GB 5400RPM and (Secondary) Hitachi 160GB 5400RPM

 

[oczdude8]

Dude, what do you expect when you use a 5400rpm 160gb drive from 4-5 years ago. That thing is probably slower then some USB flash drives.... Buy a new HDD or invest in a SSD and your build will be lighting fast.

By what you described (slow loading, but no lagging once loaded) its pretty clear its 100% a HDD issue. Its also likely that HDD is on its way out.

 

[crisan_tiberiu]

you have 2 very slow HDDs, and my guess is that are very old aswell. Secondary, you have only 4GB ram. With lower memory, the system will have more paging file (virtual memory (RAM)) on your HDD. Your Harddrives are the problem (99%)

 

[Brillis Wuce]

You, sir, need an SSD. 5400RPM HDD are seriously slow compared. If you don't want to spend to much, get a 128GB model and just throw your OS and a couple games on it.

SSD's have about 5 times the performance compared to HDD's.

 

[John Verdernshmits]

Thank you all for the answers, I do infact have a SSD coming so that would be a relief

 

[harrilynch]

You don't even need an SSD. Although it would be really fast, you don't need one if you are on a budget. Just simply backup your two drives and put them on a 7200rpm 1tb drive. You will have plenty of space. Rather than two slow almost-full drives.

 

[John Verdernshmits]

The Hitachi Drive is broken, when it get's to a certain of taken capacity it does large ticking noises lol so I will more than likely get a 1TB HDD aswell