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Can I have some tips too?
Appreciate the meme but yea that is one way to probably improve performance. Or upgrade the RAM, clean the fans, reapply thermal compound, clear out temporary files, disable unused services or reinstall Windows if they really need it just to run Chrome and Zoom which is all they do.
Even just blowing out all the dust from a passive cooler (under the CPU fan) can make your system run a good 10°C cooler.
hardware isn't as impactful to performance as software imo, just getting rid of bloat services can improve the perceived performance for every day tasks a ton.
btw I don't really get why increasing the amount of ram is thought of as the first step by most normie consumers, if you have enough it's enough and even my 2gb machine runs everything fine
You'd be amazed at the startup and program opening time gains on older computers' when you change in the HDD that is stuck at read/write speeds of 5MB/s for a SSD
oh yeah SSDs are great, but RAM, thermals, etc don't matter much
If RAM upgradable to dual channel it could still make a big difference
This. I don't know how many people's PCs I've looked at where they have ddr, but only one stick of RAM....
Clean the fans.
Reinstall the os clean. That's usually why a new computer feels snappy: it's just fresh.
Also dont forget to reapply thermal paste. Might help with overheating.
No chance I'm advising normies to mess with thermal paste on their own.
Free:
Relatively cheap (<$200 each):
It really depends on what's making it slow though.
for deleting files qdirstat/windirstat are insanely good pieces of software
This part was huge you for me. Almost same as from HDD to SSD.
i didnt notice as much difference