Comment on Anon's PC works

• abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Image

  source

  • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

    source

    • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

      source
    • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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

      source

      • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        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

        source

        • -> View More Comments
• deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Reinstall the os clean. That’s usually why a new computer feels snappy: it’s just fresh.

  source

  • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Also dont forget to reapply thermal paste. Might help with overheating.

    source

    • JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No chance I’m advising normies to mess with thermal paste on their own.

      source
• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Free:

  • clean fans and heatsink - others mentioned, and the reason is better cooling so it doesn’t throttle
  • kill unnecessary services - that’s why reinstalling works
  • install Linux - not reasonable for everyone, but Linux uses far fewer resources
  • delete old files - as disks get full, it takes longer to find somewhere for files to go; try to leave 10-20% free
  • try a small overclock - many older CPUs can give a little more without upgrading cooling; only do it if temps look good

  Relatively cheap (<$200 each):

  • upgrade drive to NVMe - huge difference if running an HDD, still noticeable of running a SATA SSD
  • add more RAM (only if you’re constantly running out)
  • upgrade CPU - esp if AMD since they release lots of CPUs for the same socket

  It really depends on what’s making it slow though.

  source

  • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    for deleting files qdirstat/windirstat are insanely good pieces of software

    source
  • raker@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    NVMe

    This part was hugh you for me. Almost same as from HDD to SSD.

    source

    • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      i didnt notice as much difference

      source