extremely slow updating
Posted by Beginning-Drama-1103@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 11 comments
i play games that often need to update on my PC and its genuinely the slowest updating ever. often having to leave my pc on over night due to it taking hours to update my games. I know its partially due to wifi but I was wondering if theres any recommendations to upgrade that could help speed up the process ? My pc is pretty old and i probably need to upgrade all the parts eventually but my main issue is the updating and downloading games
SaunaApprentice@reddit
Hdd is biggest bottleneck suuper slow to do a bunch of reading and writing tasks at the same time
VoraciousGorak@reddit
You need to tell us what you have so we can tell you what you might need.
Beginning-Drama-1103@reddit (OP)
im really not sure exactly what i have as my brother bought and built it for me. i do know i have an HDD 2TB internal hard drive thats Barracuda brand. and the ram is t force ram ddr4 vulcan z
VoraciousGorak@reddit
If your system is running off a mechanical hard drive, or at least your games are installed on it, then that's why it's taking forever to update them assuming your WiFi isn't the direct issue. Even on a good SSD, some games just take a while to update.
NotSodiumFree@reddit
that would drive me off the deep end with the way alot of games zone load.
nnodante@reddit
So there are 3 main things
Internet - How fast you can download the update
Disk - If it's too slow then doesnt matter that you can download faster if disk cannot write it fast enough
CPU - Used when saving data
If neither your cpu or disk arent bottlenecking your internet then that's the main thing you should improve
Beginning-Drama-1103@reddit (OP)
my CPU and GPU are grouped together as one since its really old. Id assume that may be the issue ? I also have an HDD instead of an SSD but im not sure if that makes much of a difference or not
VoraciousGorak@reddit
The difference between a hard drive and a good SSD, for random writes, is reckoned in orders of magnitude.
Unfortunately you've decided to upgrade when SSD prices are at like a five-year high.
Find out what your other parts are. CPU-Z can tell you your CPU, motherboard, and RAM, and GPU-Z (or just Device Manager) will tell you your GPU. The motherboard is important for learning which SSDs would be best to install.
Beginning-Drama-1103@reddit (OP)
thank you so much !
aragorn18@reddit
Huge difference. HDDs are very slow.
GeassAye@reddit
Outside of wifi speed, there is Storage speed.
Hard Drives (HDD) writes at 80-160MB/s which is really slow in today's world.
Sata SSD is at 400-550 MB/s
NVMe SSD can go from 2000-7500+ depending on the generation.
This is your biggest issue outside of wifi/router fixes