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My brother's computer takes longer than two minutes to FULLY boot... A SSD would be a life-changer for him.

PUT GTA V ON SSD. I had horrible model and texture streaming, when I put it on my games SSD (which I bought almost only for GTA V) it loaded and ran much smoother

Depends, if you need any Nvidia-specific feature (CUDA, ShadowPlay, etc.), get the GTX 970, otherwise get the R9 390.

I have a Cooler Master G450M and I'm planning to get a used GTX 780. Will it work? It seems that it's a close one... I also have a Intel i5-3450.

It really depends on the game developers so it varies from game to game.

Erm, I uninstalled Gpg4Win and it seemed to make my computer faster (?!) So my problem is solved I guess? It may come back so I prefer not to close this thread

Thank you all for your advice! Sadly, Malwarebytes found nothing, Spybot hangs at a particular product name and Panda Free won't start the scan. Every statistic in my PC seems normal according to HWMonitor, it's driving me crazy! Could it be the (noname) PSU's fault? I'm gonna try to grab my S.M.A.R.T. statistics, is there an easy way to get it?

Thanks for the advice, I'm gonna try with Panda Free first. I fear my comp is running something like a Bitcoin miner... It's my birthday next month so I'm gonna try to get a Crucial BX100 256GB.

Thanks for the advice, MalwareBytes found nothing, I'm gonna scan with Spybot and Panda Free.

Nope, that isn't my perception, it was quite snappy and fast two days ago

By the way, I did a CrystalDiskMark benchmark (Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB ST2000DL003): Are these speeds okay?

Well I already defragged earlier this month using Defraggler so right now it's 2% fragmented. Should I make it 0%?

Hi fellow LTTers! On Christmas 2012, my father bought me a prebuilt Medion Akoya desktop PC (precise model: MEDION AKOYA P5394D MD8451, here it is on a French retailer website). Here are the specs: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-3450 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor Storage: Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive ($99.95 @ Amazon) Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit) ($94.77 @ OutletPC) Motherboard: Medion H61H2-LM3 (Purchased) RAM: Hynix DDR3-1600 6GB (4GB + 2GB) (Purchased) GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 660 1.5GB (OEM/Reference) (Purchased) Case: A sh*tty LED-infested case (Purchased) PSU: No-name 450W PSU (Purchased) Other: CD/DVD reader/writer (Purchased) Total: $194.72 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-12 06:16 EDT-0400 The thing is that since two days my computer suddenly became reaaaally slow. Using Ctrl+Shift+Esc, Task Manager took 200 seconds to load and VLC plays videos after 3 minutes. I had to wait a full minute staring at a black screen when I launched CS:GO (it even crashed later during the game). I also had some UAC prompts simply timing out without me being able to see them. Once loaded, the programs are smoothly running, so I guess they are queued but the computer "forgets" to launch them in time. I don't really understand how is it possible for a computer to instantly become slow. My hypothesis is that either the HDD or the PSU is faulty: however, I have no spare parts at home and I'm a little low on cash. What can I do to turn it back in its glorious days' state?