Overclocking worth it?

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Hey Guys!

 

So I have a DELL Inspiron 3521 that I gave to my cousins and they use it for movies and have about 20 of them always on the laptop, and they mostly use it for YouTube. Other than that just bluestacks and maybe a bit of iTunes. And according to them, the laptop is "slower" than the month they got it, and I was using it before them when it was just like any other laptop - fresh, clean and running smooth! 

But now, it takes a month just to open chrome and bluestacks (this takes a year).

So then I remembered that the CPU is 1.8 GHz (i3 3217U), which means it is really the 800MHz ahead than the Windows 7 requirements, also I figured out they got a bunch of 'crapware' (as we nerds call it), that I removed, and they also used CCleaner without asking what to check and uncheck, and in that process, the check everything, including the Registry! And i think that a part of the mess, also the laptop was never updated as I hoped they would when i give it to them, but they never even checked for updates, and have like 200 of them when I checked...

 

So a fresh install of Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit, which is what it came with, or Windows 10 64 bit (I think 10 might slow it down, will it?)?

Also, it has 4GB RAM and is a x64 based system.

[Pixel5]

overclocking is not gonna do anything for this laptop, it had too little ram and generally a too slow processor to ever be really fast,

i guess it also has an HDD which slows it down even more.

 

the only thing that could speed up loading times a little would be an SSD, everything else would require to buy a better laptop.

[Jurrunio]

you cant overclock this laptop. Getting an SSD is as good as an improvement will ever get

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8 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

you cant overclock this laptop. Getting an SSD is as good as an improvement will ever get

I forgot it is locked and the BIOS will prevent me from doing so, so nothing other than getting an SSD? (I'll swap out the HDD clone everything and then put it the SSD myself, I have imaged and backed up like this many times)

Also, does upgrading from Win7 64bit to Win10 64 make the laptop or the PC slower,

take my Core 2 Duo, will it get slow (it has 4gigs of ram), it currently has Win7 Professional 32bit, I want to make it Win10 64bit, will it get slower,idc if i gets faster or not.just not slower  

[Morgoth97]

Your computer WILL PROBABLY run slower if you update to Windows 10  due to Meltdown and Spectre’s secuirity patches in Windows 10.

 

Like others said: upgrading your SSD is the only meaningful upgrade to your PC which will impact performance and QoL (quality of life- Windows and programs start up faster).

[Jurrunio]

1 hour ago, mbasil22 said:

Also, does upgrading from Win7 64bit to Win10 64 make the laptop or the PC slower,

take my Core 2 Duo, will it get slow (it has 4gigs of ram), it currently has Win7 Professional 32bit, I want to make it Win10 64bit, will it get slower,idc if i gets faster or not.just not slower  

likely slower

Just look at how many fancy stuff Win 10 start menu is.

[GamerGirl17]

64bit OS on a 4GB RAM is kinda pointless tbh, though it's required to make full use of the 4GB RAM. 
Overclocking might not really help if you could add another few GB's of RAM that could've helped if you really wanted to keep going with it.

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You guys said my core 2 Duo will likely be slower, but right now, I installed Windows 10 64 bit, and trust me, it is so smoother, and even load times and app responds better! 

But that is probably because my CPU was 3.0GHz, and the GPU is overclocked, and yeah, I agree and really think that the Laptop WILL slow down, cause it has a like 1.8GHz CPU, doesn't matter if it is i3 or i7, slowing both down to same lower clock of 1.8 will definitely bring the i7 neck to neck with the i3, cause the cores have data that is literally waiting to be read and addressed in the RAM/memory...

So yeah, I will continue with the 64 bit Win10 on C2D, but I will avoid Win10 on the laptop, and just get an SSD.

Can you guys tell me if I should go brand curious like buying some Transcend or Optane (Intel), or just a 512 gig WD Blue will work, I mean it should be atleast 4 times better than the 5200 rpm lamo hdd in there

 

Thanks to all of you who recommended SSD and the gave me caution for the laptop!