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[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 104 points 2 years ago (7 children)

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[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 31 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years 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.

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[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

oh yeah SSDs are great, but RAM, thermals, etc don't matter much

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[–] freebee@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

If RAM upgradable to dual channel it could still make a big difference

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[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago

This. I don't know how many people's PCs I've looked at where they have ddr, but only one stick of RAM....

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[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 30 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

Clean the fans.

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

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[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago

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

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.