So and old friend of mine is going through a rough time........

[Lego lad]

His name is Dell.

Let me start by saying that i've had this thing since 2009, and it's seem some stuff. It's been getting really slow other the years (probably due to the increasing amount of things installed on it :T) and obviously isn't a gaming rig by any definition. It used to run blockland well, and games like warframe exceptionally (have to turn off every pretty graphic setting D:), but lately for both of these it quickly starts the fan up like a tornado, and restarts, probably due to overheating or something. I'm not too devastated because this was obviously going to happen, and I've already picked out parts for a new rig That I was goign to get in December.

The question I need answered is, is my pc on it's last legs now, and should I buy the new one early?

specs:

(if there's anything i missed pls tell)

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[Jshotgun]

take his parts out and forge a new one under the name of
DELL MK.II

[Shizza04]

take his parts out and forge a new one under the name of
DELL MK.II

FOR THE MOTHERLAND

[Trymos]

get a can of compressed air and blow the dust off of the components.

boom overheating problem solved.

if not solved reinstall windows, windows getting slow is an unavoidable thing unfortunately. only solution is reinstalling.

[TheBrickBuilder]

I have a dell inspiron and it sucks on ice. It has a really bad cooling problem and we got on there and tried like 10 diff things and were still doing it and it still does it hck we even blew like 10 pounds of dust out of it and that made it fine for about 5 days but it still does it. I'm hoping to get a new pc.



Anyways if you wanna go keep it go to a local tech store if you have one to see if they will fix it. or go keep in it the closet forever like I did to my windows xp

[Steve5451²]

Sluggish performance can also be explained by thermal throttling as a result of overheating. Blow out the heatsink.

[Lego lad]

welp I blew dust out of all the parts and it worked for a day, now it's doing it again - but I've discovered it only shuts down for steam games. The steam version of bl eventually shuts down but the nonsteam version keeps going. idk what do do anymore

[Makingblah]

I'd recommend getting a hard drive and backing up your music and pictures or whatever sort of data you keep on it (research), and doing a fresh OS install.
That usually speeds up my computers (all Dell) and I try to do it once every year or so. Also, clean the dust from the inside of the computer. That stuff needs to be done or it'll overheat like a bitch in heat.