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But when I bought it the boot time was about 30 seconds now it is around 2-3 minutes. Are you sure it is not something else? Because I do not have the money for an SSD and I need at least 1000 gigs. 

Because the HDD wasnt filled whatsoever. I have a laptop HDD myself and it slows way the hell down once you get anything substantial on it. That HDD is slowing everything down and is the only reason why its so slow. Take the bullet and get an SSD period 

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Hello! I have had an HP Beats 15 laptop with Windows 10 home version 1709. But recently it has been getting suuuuuuuper slow with the CPU usage around 35% when idle. I have tried closing some tasks, but I am not %100 what ones to stop because I am worried about crashing my PC. Also boot times take forever but I have disabled all tasks besides Realtek HD audio manager. Is there anything I can do besides reinstalling windows? I have also thought about refreshing my PC but there are programs I don't want to have to install and I don't have any external drive big enough for them. If that is the best route, is there any way to choose what to keep?

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Solid State Drive or standard hard drive? HDDs are bottlenecks of most modern PCs. I am constantly upgrading user's PCs to SSDs because of the exact scenario you are describing.

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An SSD sounds like the only option here. There are already cheap SATA SSD's on the market in the 500 GB range. That should speed up your laptop by a huge ton 

Primary Laptop (Gearsy MK4): Ryzen 9 5900HX, Radeon RX 6800M, Radeon Vega 8 Mobile, 24 GB DDR4 2400 Mhz, 512 GB SSD+1TB SSD, 15.6 in 300 Hz IPS display

2021 Asus ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition

 

Secondary Laptop (Uni MK2): Ryzen 7 5800HS, Nvidia GTX 1650, Radeon Vega 8 Mobile, 16 GB DDR4 3200 Mhz, 512 GB SSD 

2021 Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 

 

Meme Machine (Uni MK1): Shintel Core i5 7200U, Nvidia GT 940MX, 24 GB DDR4 2133 Mhz, 256 GB SSD+500GB HDD, 15.6 in TN Display 

2016 Acer Aspire E5 575 

 

Retired Laptop (Gearsy MK2): Ryzen 5 2500U, Radeon Vega 8 Mobile, 12 GB 2400 Mhz DDR4, 256 GB NVME SSD, 15.6" 1080p IPS Touchscreen 

2017 HP Envy X360 15z (Ryzen)

 

PC (Gearsy): A6 3650, HD 6530D , 8 GB 1600 Mhz Kingston DDR3, Some Random Mobo Lol, EVGA 450W BT PSU, Stock Cooler, 128 GB Kingston SSD, 1 TB WD Blue 7200 RPM

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Also im happy to answer any Ryzen Mobile questions if anyone is interested! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Gikero said:

Solid State Drive or standard hard drive? HDDs are bottlenecks of most modern PCs. I am constantly upgrading user's PCs to SSDs because of the exact scenario you are describing.

 

1 minute ago, Silentprototipe said:

An SSD sounds like the only option here. There are already cheap SATA SSD's on the market in the 500 GB range. That should speed up your laptop by a huge ton 

But when I bought it the boot time was about 30 seconds now it is around 2-3 minutes. Are you sure it is not something else? Because I do not have the money for an SSD and I need at least 1000 gigs. 

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Just now, GiantEvilPig said:

 

But when I bought it the boot time was about 30 seconds now it is around 2-3 minutes. Are you sure it is not something else? Because I do not have the money for an SSD and I need at least 1000 gigs. 

Because the HDD wasnt filled whatsoever. I have a laptop HDD myself and it slows way the hell down once you get anything substantial on it. That HDD is slowing everything down and is the only reason why its so slow. Take the bullet and get an SSD period 

Primary Laptop (Gearsy MK4): Ryzen 9 5900HX, Radeon RX 6800M, Radeon Vega 8 Mobile, 24 GB DDR4 2400 Mhz, 512 GB SSD+1TB SSD, 15.6 in 300 Hz IPS display

2021 Asus ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition

 

Secondary Laptop (Uni MK2): Ryzen 7 5800HS, Nvidia GTX 1650, Radeon Vega 8 Mobile, 16 GB DDR4 3200 Mhz, 512 GB SSD 

2021 Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 

 

Meme Machine (Uni MK1): Shintel Core i5 7200U, Nvidia GT 940MX, 24 GB DDR4 2133 Mhz, 256 GB SSD+500GB HDD, 15.6 in TN Display 

2016 Acer Aspire E5 575 

 

Retired Laptop (Gearsy MK2): Ryzen 5 2500U, Radeon Vega 8 Mobile, 12 GB 2400 Mhz DDR4, 256 GB NVME SSD, 15.6" 1080p IPS Touchscreen 

2017 HP Envy X360 15z (Ryzen)

 

PC (Gearsy): A6 3650, HD 6530D , 8 GB 1600 Mhz Kingston DDR3, Some Random Mobo Lol, EVGA 450W BT PSU, Stock Cooler, 128 GB Kingston SSD, 1 TB WD Blue 7200 RPM

HP P7 1234 (Yes It's Actually Called That)  RIP 

 

Also im happy to answer any Ryzen Mobile questions if anyone is interested! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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