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so my mums friend said her computer was slow and she wanted me to take a look at it and yeah it was fairly slow and windows was clean of any viruses just all the crap asus puts on it but then i noticed and think what is causing it to be slow it has a AMD E-450 APU e.g. a dual core 1.65GHz cpu... i looked at the task manager and it was 100% most of the time even just trying to open chrome but when you leave the computer alone for a while the CPU usage go's to 1-4% usage. 

 

so is the issue the CPU being 1.65GHz or the mechanical harddrive.

 

should i still reinstall windows even though it is fairly clean just asus things 

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e-450 is ancient...

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run ccleaner reg cleaner before isntalling windows..it can make a significant difference depending how old/neglected the comp has been.

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The fact the PC exists is the issue

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i thought it would be but the computer seems fairly new 

 

Came out in 2011

 

Its a slow CPU, mixed with a slow HDD and it probably needs a good ol Windows reinstall and clean up

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That CPU and HDD are both probably the problem.

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Came out in 2011

 

Its a slow CPU, mixed with a slow HDD and it probably needs a good ol Windows reinstall and clean up

It came out in 2011 as a low power cpu that was underperforming even in 2011  :lol:

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It came out in 2011 as a low power cpu that was underperforming even in 2011  :lol:

 

I remember it coming out and coming into some laptops in store, and the manager being like "these should sell well"

I am like.. yeah wait until you try use it

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so my mums friend said her computer was slow and she wanted me to take a look at it and yeah it was fairly slow and windows was clean of any viruses just all the crap asus puts on it but then i noticed and think what is causing it to be slow it has a AMD E-450 APU e.g. a dual core 1.65GHz cpu... i looked at the task manager and it was 100% most of the time even just trying to open chrome but when you leave the computer alone for a while the CPU usage go's to 1-4% usage. 

 

so is the issue the CPU being 1.65GHz or the mechanical harddrive.

 

should i still reinstall windows even though it is fairly clean just asus things 

run CCleaner and it will probably speed up the computer some, then the CPU

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A re-install to get rid of the bloat will help but the CPU and the HDD will of course impact performance.. I'm guessing it has 2GB ram also.

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