Your wife already
allowed you to buy a new case. You need to learn your place, pal.
I paid out 1000.00 for her asus with i5 and 8 gigs of ram. I am using a 12 year old motherboard. What is right about this picture???
I realize I'm late to the party but just had to make a comment on this:
Wife's are a lot like little brothers. They always play Luigi, and they always get your awesome computer after you upgrade. End of discussion.
Time to run before the feminazi's roll into the thread.
The setup I currently use is: [...]
Re: Should you upgrade?
I think you'll get varied responses. I would try other things first (posted below), but if you upgrade, I believe the other posters in the thread are doing well at discussing potential solutions.
Re: What to try if you don't want to upgrade.
Back up your data to external drive or DVD-ROM/BluRay.
Get a drive wiper like DBAN and wipe the drive clean (a blanking operation will suffice).
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Reinstall Windows
I'd be willing to bet your PC may just have "silent" malware on it that allows the controller to use it in a DDoS attack or cryptocurrency mining network. If a scanner didn't catch it, then you're left with a PC that appears normal... just runs slower than it should.
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Footnote: If you don't understand the means by which the Windows Kernels (Version 6.0+) re-use Kernel files (even after a "Format"), then please don't make comments about how blanking a drive is not necessary. There's no point in re-installing Windows if you're not
properly formatting the drive.