It’s been 3 months since I have my new pc :
Intel Core i5-12400F 6 Cores, 2,5GHz
16GB of RAM
Geforce RTX 3060
The thing is, everything I do on my computer is so slow ! I freeze and crash everytime I switch between my different programs, everytime I try to launch a game, everytime I make something on my computer!
More than that, when I look at the task manager with steam, browser and discord open the cpu use doesn’t even reach 20%!
Everytime I launch a game that use a lot of ram and cpu I make sure to close my browser and every other useless programs but nothing helps!
Please tell me someone have a solution cause I feel like using a janky computer while it’s completely new.
Few things to consider:
Slow drives, mostly HDDs, can hugely impact performance (but should not be causing crashes)
Task manager is not a great way to view utilization but it can do the trick most of the time. The important thing to realize is that the 20% metric refers to the all of the cores. If one core is running at 100% but the rest are sitting at 0 you’re going to see a low utilization even though that one core/thread. At the Performance > CPU screen change the graph to ‘logical processors’ rather than ‘overall utilization’ as it will give you a more accurate picture of what’s going on.
There’s a chance that you have a hardware problem, but these issues (when as bad as you’ve described) usually justify a fresh install of Windows.
I changed the graph and I see every core being used pretty much equally which I think is right.
I installed HWInfo but I’m not really sure where to look at ? Since everyting is green I assume it’s alright ?
I should consider re installing as you said…
To be more precise about my crashes is for exemple when I launch a stream on discord every tabs open goes “not responding” and I have to wait several minutes to get everyting fixed. It happens with a lot of others actions too.
Hard disk drives are many orders of magnitude slower than solid state drives.
Back in the day, before we had SSDs, this is how a lot of things worked. We would wait a long time for programs to open, and the operating system would sometimes hang (long enough that it appeared to be crashing) when switching between workloads. It was a slow and painful experience.
If you’re doing the majority if you work off the HDD, it’s going to be very, very slow. You can use the HDD for data storage, like backing up pictures, movies, music, etc. and you can even use it for some older games, but you should absolutely be running any modern version of Windows off an SSD at this point.
There could be something else wrong, but I feel pretty confident that you’re simply underestimating how slow HDDs are.
From what you’ve said elsewhere it likely is your HDD but it’s still good to take a look at your thermals. In HWInfo click the ‘Sensors’ button. It’ll bring up a fairly long list of different readings covering power usage, utilization, temperatures, and more. Scroll down until you see your CPU and Core temperatures. The 12th gen Intel CPUs have a max temperature rating of 100C and will cut power and clock speeds if that ceiling is being hit. If you see any cores bouncing off that number (or close to it) when under load you have a cooling problem. It should usually be much lower than that though. Depending on your ambient temperature, case, and cooling solution it could range anywhere from 25C to 50C at idle. With any minimally decent cooling setup and while under heavy load 80-90C can be considered normal but a good cooler will usually keep you under 80C, sometimes significantly.