RamboPenguin

My sibling completed his Mechanical Engineering degree with an Acer 5742G with a little dual core Core i3 paired with a HD5450. 4GBs of RAM, later upgraded to 8GB during his final year. Not sure how the hell that thing ran Solidworks like it was nothing.

mabye cpu throttling? i dont thiunk so as a ryzen 5 should be fine. check cpu usage. it might be a cpu based game and check ram usage/

then it looks pretty good. check to see if you can upgrade its ram, which i thiink is useful for simulations. 32GB ram really helps for video editing and 3d simulations. My friend does 3d simulations of aerodynamics and has a 64GB ram laptop.  

Overclocked the monitor to 70hz. Did some benchmarking without v-sync and everything appears to be working better than before with no screen-tearing. Thanks for the help.

The S340 is a nice case for air cooling (radiator support is lacking somewhat). If it's a glossy black, it will attract (and show) dust and finger prints a lot. If it's a white version, dust and finger prints won't show as much. If you just keep a cloth nearby, it only takes a few seconds to give it a quick wipedown to remove dust. Removing finger prints may need a plastic cleaner as just cloths can spread the oil. 

8gb flash drives are cheap. Also I have the Pro case and it's nice.

Sk Hynix SL308 in 250gb. MX300 is good too

This was the best one : OCZ TL100 (VERY SHIT performance, 94MB/s Seq Writes for fucks sake) (TLC)