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New PC, fresh install of Win 10 Home - everything feels laggy and slow
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Hi all.
Just bought a new PC a few days ago, finished building it and installing everything on it. Here are the specs:
CPU: Intel Core i7-7700k @ 4.2GHz
Mem: Kingston 8GB DDR4-2400MHz (x2 for a total of 16GB)
GPU: None currently. Running of the integrated GPU on the CPU. An MSI GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB is on its way.
SSD: Intel 600p 128GB M.2 NVMe PCIe
HDD: Western Digital Blue 1TB
MB: Asus Z270M-Prime
Cooler: Noctua NH-L12
The first thing I noticed is that Windows feels VERY (!) slow and unresponsive. The start menu pops up very slow and laggy. I get black screens for a few seconds now and then. When I move the mouse too fast I can see "ghosting" (mouse trails) and it's not a fast, constant sweep like in my old laptop. Using chrome when I try to enter web-sites it takes 30 seconds to even load the page up - it doesn't even process anything, the web-page is simply blank and then the page comes up. When I drag windows it feels so slow and laggy (ghosting, like with the mouse.) When I extract zip files using the built-in windows utility and see the performace, the extraction speed is building up, sometimes falling to a complete 0 and then rising back up. Starting Excel, Word, Powerpoint or whatever takes about 30 seconds or so. Something is very wrong, and I do not know what.
I installed all the latest driver, everything remains the same.
I feel it's a drivers/settings problem, I just don't know where to look. I went into the system BIOS and disabled all the power-saving features of the CPU - I thought the maybe the fact it clocks down affects the OS performance. Now the CPU is running at full 4.2GHz constant and the OS performance still remains the same. :\
Can you guys assist me somehow? I'm getting very frustrated. My 3 years old laptop with windows 10 works better!
All the best,
Arye.