PC has been getting slower and crashing more over the last few weeks

Posted by rynexiahot@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 10 comments

hey guys. built my first pc about 2 years ago with an i5 12400f, rtx 4060, 16gb ddr4 ram and its been great for editing videos and gaming. lately though its been feeling sluggish, apps take longer to open and ive had a couple random crashes in chrome and games. nothing dramatic but its getting annoying.

i already ran malware scans, updated drivers and windows, and checked disk health with crystaldisk. temps look normal too. could it be the ram or ssd starting to fail? or maybe just needs a clean windows install? any ideas what to try next would be awesome, thanks.

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Meister5@reddit

Windows 10? Windows 11? I had to replace the guts of my PC 18 months ago after mobo/CPU failure. Just got a mid level Ryzen 5600GT, 16GB RAM, but it wouldn't run Win 7 which I love, so had to put Win 10 on it. Awful experience for just over a year, before I was prompted by Win 10 to upgrade for free to Win 11, which I did. Now, I thought Windows 10 was bad. . .

Slowest PC I've ever had in my life. It's virtually unusable, and has cut my productivity by half. I've done all the recommended steps to speed Win 11 up. . . removing all the bloat and crap etc, but it's still awful. 10 to 15 minute boot time from cold as well.

I've downloaded Linux Cinnamon, but haven't taken the plunge and installed it yet.

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karmapopsicle@reddit

That sounds a lot like a severe storage bottleneck if you’re seeing 10-15 minute boot times.

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AvWxA@reddit

Have you cleaned out your CPU cooler recently? I have seen them so full of packed dust that there there would be no air flow at all. That would be my first check and maybe a replacement of the cooler’s heat-transfer paste.

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raver4444@reddit

100%

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Elianor07@reddit

Since you have already checked the temperatures and the malware and the health of the state drive it is probably either the random access memory being unstable or just the Windows and the software building up. A clean reinstall is usually the way to find out which one of these things is causing the problem.

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Critical-Spirit-3738@reddit

Windows reinstall probably.

I have a 7800X3D and even I had a slugishness issue - I reinstalled yesterday and it feels good as new again. Windows just be that way sometimes, especially W11, at least in my own experience ¯⁠\⁠⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠⁠/⁠¯

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