The difference 6 months made on my old shop PC

I built a PC for my garage workshop back in 2019 with a basic SSD and 8 gigs of ram. For the first couple years it ran fine for schematics and email. But around 6 months ago I noticed it taking forever to open files and the fans would spin up just launching Firefox. I finally swapped the SSD for an NVMe drive and bumped the ram to 16 gigs last weekend. The boot time went from over a minute to maybe 15 seconds. Anyone else notice their old builds get sluggish way faster than you expected?

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milesbarnes3d ago

Nah, sounds like you just needed to clean it up instead of spending money.

blake_kelly193d ago

Yeah @milesbarnes, I guess I just like spending money more than elbow grease (my last build still has dust bunnies in it).

lee.cora3d ago

@milesbarnes missed that thermal paste dries out after a few years and kills performance way before dust does.