Slow laptop

TheRightOne

TadleyBaggie said:

Hebrews12 said:

It's a bit like Twitter on here.  Some really helpful people and...

...so what is the real CPU speed?

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/84695/intel-core-i3-5005u-processor-3m-cache-2-00-ghz.html

Hebrews12

TadleyBaggie said:

Hebrews12 said:

It's a bit like Twitter on here.  Some really helpful people and...

...so what is the real CPU speed?

2.00GHz.  Just missed the . 

Flash32

It's never going to be the fastest off the blocks.  It's quite an old machine, it should have an i3 dual core 1.9GHz processor and may have either 4GB or 8GB RAM depending on the precise model.  As PPs have suggested, an SSD will def help the boot speed, but if you have the 4GB version, you may wish to consider a RAM upgrade as well, depending on how demanding the programs are that you are planning to run.  Problem is that the laptop is almost worthless - you can currently buy them on the web for between £150 and £200, fully refurbished, so the cost of the SSD and the RAM may be more than the PC is worth.  Best to cost it out with your eyes wide open.  At the end of the day, there are some much faster laptops around for only £150 more than you are going to spend on upgrading - and the risk is that another component may fail - or it may go on for years - pure luck.  PS - be careful if you are going for the 120 GB SSD - you will need to manage storage very carefully.

George_Michael

I'm currently using a very old Toshiba laptop and this is of a very similar spec as yours.
It's got an i3 2.27Ghz processor and 6GB of RAM.
It's pretty fast for general purpose internet use and using programs such as office and watching videos.
I swopped the HDD to a 120GB SSD a couple of years ago and the difference this made was nothing short of astounding.
From pressing the power button, it's fully up and running connected to the internet within about 20 seconds.

Provided that there's not too much stored on the laptop, you can get a 120GB SSD for about £20 and a 240GB one for less than £30.

debitcardmayhem

plus for a few extra £s you can get a USB3 caddy for your old disk for extra storage

TheRightOne

Flash32 said:

It's never going to be the fastest off the blocks.  It's quite an old machine, it should have an i3 dual core 1.9GHz processor and may have either 4GB or 8GB RAM depending on the precise model.  As PPs have suggested, an SSD will def help the boot speed, but if you have the 4GB version, you may wish to consider a RAM upgrade as well, depending on how demanding the programs are that you are planning to run.  Problem is that the laptop is almost worthless - you can currently buy them on the web for between £150 and £200, fully refurbished, so the cost of the SSD and the RAM may be more than the PC is worth.  Best to cost it out with your eyes wide open.  At the end of the day, there are some much faster laptops around for only £150 more than you are going to spend on upgrading - and the risk is that another component may fail - or it may go on for years - pure luck.  PS - be careful if you are going for the 120 GB SSD - you will need to manage storage very carefully.

Please don't mislead the OP with this almost entirely erroneous post.
The device is fine for general usage, as long as there are no hardware issues.
You've been told the CPU is 2.0GHz, but yet you are asserting 1.9GHz.
4GB of RAM  is fine.
Laptop is worthless? Ludicrous comment.
Cost of SSD from £20 and RAM is not needed. So how did you get to £150 worth of components?
120GB of storage needs to be managed carefully? What a load of rubbish. I have over 80 GB of media stored on mine. 
Your post is pure negativity and not at all helpful nor accurate.

TheRightOne

Hebrews12 said:

Hi all. My daughter is using a laptop which has been getting slower and slower.  I figured I'd reformat it and completely did a reset back to factory settings so that Windows was reinstalled and nothing else.  It still seems pretty slow to be honest and I'm wondering if there might be a component (motherboard/processor - I'm a bit clueless) that could be replaced and if there's any way of finding out what's going on?  It's a Windows 10, i3 dual core 200GHz machine and she's just running office and not much else.  Any advice would be very welcome. Thanks for reading. 

https://www.mymemory.co.uk/crucial-240gb-bx500-internal-2-5-sata-ssd-drive-540mb-s.html
&
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USB-3-0-to-SATA-Hard-Drive-Enclosure-Caddy-External-Case-For-2-5-Inch-HDD-SSD/203113880297 to make the old HDD into an external storage drive are typically what you need.
So under £40.

Though you can bring the price down further with a 120 GB drive: https://www.mymemory.co.uk/integral-120gb-p-series-5-sata-iii-2-5-internal-ssd-drive-560mb-s.html bringing the total to £26.

If you were interest in taking the device to 8 GB of RAM, it would cost you around £26 for 2 x 4GB DDR3L modules.

So the total cost of SSD, caddy and extra RAM still only from £52 to £62. But the extra RAM will make only a tiny difference. So just do the SSD and caddy in the first instance. Then, if you want to make things a couple of seconds faster, you can spring for more RAM. All very easy to fit yourself, with the gentlest of guidance from here.

pbartlett

you will need the caddy anyway to clone the hdd to ssd. you dont need extra memory to start with, just the ssd. good luck.

poppellerant

@TheRightOne has already given the right advice.  A new SSD will transform that laptop, with the option to upgrade the RAM in the future at a small cost.

I'm not sure why @Flash32 is so hung up on the CPU speed, as this is more than likely not the cause of the laptop being slow.  And I really don't think 0.1 GHz is going to make the slightest of difference in real world use.

TonyMMM

Windows 10 can be slowed down on some laptops by automatically searching for (and installing) updates - I have a laptop (HP with an i3 processor) like that. Turning off the auto update function transforms it.
If you have reset to factory, then it is probably trying to install numerous updates all at once.