PC slows down when downloading

[JackPendragon]

Hello! Lately, my pc has been running extremely slow while downloading torrents and updating games (Battle.net, War Thunder, Fortnite...) and it's slowing down websites to the point of freezing them and it's almost impossible to move the mouse because it kinda 

• Desktop Windows 10 Home (x64)
• Intel Core i5 4460 @ 3.20GHz
• 16,0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
• ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. K30AD_M31AD_M51AD_M32AD
• Owlotech BPS 600W
• TP-Link AV500 (86MB Down. 86'5MB Up)
• I've had the PC for like 2 years and I have changed the GPU, Ram and PSU.

[ProjectBox153]

What storage do you have?

[JackPendragon]

1TB HDD Seagate (Kinda new) (Games are installed here)

2TB HDD Western Digital (Pretty old)

256Mb SSD 

[Gregori]

Torrents are notorious for slowing down HDDs. Are you perhaps torrenting and gaming on the same HDD? 

[JackPendragon]

2 hours ago, Gregori said:

Torrents are notorious for slowing down HDDs. Are you perhaps torrenting and gaming on the same HDD? 

Nope, torrents are downloaded in the old HDD and Tixati is installed in Program Files. Btw, game updates slow the PC much more than torrenting

[Soulsreaper]

5 hours ago, JackPendragon said:

Hello! Lately, my pc has been running extremely slow while downloading torrents and updating games (Battle.net, War Thunder, Fortnite...) and it's slowing down websites to the point of freezing them and it's almost impossible to move the mouse because it kinda 

• Desktop Windows 10 Home (x64)
• Intel Core i5 4460 @ 3.20GHz
• 16,0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
• ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. K30AD_M31AD_M51AD_M32AD
• Owlotech BPS 600W
• TP-Link AV500 (86MB Down. 86'5MB Up)
• I've had the PC for like 2 years and I have changed the GPU, Ram and PSU.

Id say its your processor, unless your just surfing the web or playing one single in lower graphics a i5 isn't enough I had a i5 7600k and when I wanted to do more the computer would get slow very slow, like download things while continuing to do other things, also I have a gtx 1060 6gb oc graphics card.  if I were you id suggest buying what ever i7 ur computer can take. it will make a monster difference. it really did for me I got a i7 7700k shortly after because I didn't want my new build to be hampered by that and I will never buy anything but a i7 for now on 

[JackPendragon]

On 11/3/2018 at 10:21 PM, Soulsreaper said:

Id say its your processor, unless your just surfing the web or playing one single in lower graphics a i5 isn't enough I had a i5 7600k and when I wanted to do more the computer would get slow very slow, like download things while continuing to do other things, also I have a gtx 1060 6gb oc graphics card.  if I were you id suggest buying what ever i7 ur computer can take. it will make a monster difference. it really did for me I got a i7 7700k shortly after because I didn't want my new build to be hampered by that and I will never buy anything but a i7 for now on 

It's not downloading while doing other things, it's just the game updating, I have even tried stopping some useless tasks but it doesn't seem to work, guess I'll have to earn some money for a new processor