Upgrade- non techsavvy

bish76

Hi all

Will appreciate some advice on PC upgrade. It's for regular home use- MS office, photo editing, watching netflix, movies etc. but no PC gaming. Current machine is seven years old Lenovo OEM. Noticed spinning noises/ overuse of fan more frequently and photo shop is very slow lately.

Current spec-
Intel i7-3770 CPU @ 3.4 GHz, 3401 Mhz, 4 core
Windows 10 x64
Baseboard Lenovo Win8 STD MM DPK IPG
RAM 16 GB
NVIDIA GeForce GT640
2 TB samsung HDD

Skerries

maybe give it a clean out and install an SSD to speed it up first unless you have upgradeitis

GarIT

Sounds like dust buildup, a broken fan or some fan setting being wrong.

That PC is more than capable of handling what you are asking of it.

As skerries said an SSD would help. As would changing the thermal paste if you are having overheating issues and it hasn't been changed in the last 7? Years.

Samuel T. Cogley

Just in case you weren't aware an SSD is a Solid State Drive. It's like a very fast Hard Drive without any moving parts - it uses flash memory.

The type you want is a 2.5" SATA SSD like this one.

You can get software to move everything over but I'd do a fresh install of Windows 10 from a USB key.

bish76

Thanks guys. Will try to avoid Upgradeitis
Should I go for combination of SSD (windows) and HDD (storage) or should I go for 2TB SSD which seems expensive.

Samuel T. Cogley

Get a 512GB SSD and put Windows and your Apps on it, then store your data - photos, movies etc. on the Hard Drive.