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what's up guys Jase two cents here in today's video is going to probably be really more down-to-earth and apply to a lot more viewers than say high-end ATT eyes and Titan X's and Pascal and all that sort of stuff now whenever I get to work on a friend's computer I like to do the as much as I can on video because I think it really parallels a lot of things that you guys are going through with your computer builds and your quest for more performance without emptying out your wallet gigabytes flex display technology automatically detects and connects up to four displays for the best gaming experience in multi display Ultra HD click the link in the description to find out more now my friend Rob is brought over his computer which is one I built back and I want to say like 2010 I believe and even then it was built on an extreme budget of five hundred bucks and he wants to keep his computer running as long as he possibly can now recently I upgraded his graphics card from an old GTX 460 to a gtx 950 extreme because he likes to play you know Marvel and World of Warcraft and stuff like that and he wants to get as much performance as he can but again without killing the bank and he's running on an old athlon x4 and eight gigabytes of ddr3 1333 megahertz Ram so it's not like a blazing fast machine but it gets the job done now when I installed that graphics card we noticed that the boot was incredibly slow and even though he's on Windows 10 and it is a very lightweight operating system that's supposed to make your system run as fast as possible on things like tablets and phones and whatnot I was a little surprised by how long it actually took the boot his system and he asked me how can I make that better I don't have money for a new processor and RAM and motherboard and stuff while I told them you know this really old notebook hard drive you're using it's a 5400 rpm and it was old at the time that he used it I told that probably the best bang for buck is going to be upgrading to an SSD so what we're going to do today is we are going to clone his drive that way he doesn't have to reinstall everything we're going to clone it over to the new SSD and then we're going to do some performance comparisons so let's go ahead let's boot up the system let's time it so we can get some benchmarks here on you know how much performance he's actually gaining by going from an old mechanical Drive to an SSD alright so let's go ahead and see that SSD is worth it here that's your benchmark spoiler alert I promise you it's worth it so we're going to time how long it takes to start there will be a jump cut it's going to take a little while anyway one two three it's going I swear see it's going now he does have a password on his system so once we get to the password screen I'll stop it I'll enter the password and then I'll start it again because then it's going to load all the desktop items and auto load you know programs on there which take just as long as anything else alright so we are at the login screen that was 45 seconds all right password is in and we're off to the races again I'll see you guys in a little bit I'm getting kind of bored now so I'm just dancing the phone around on camera I got to show there's no shenanigans here I'm not like cutting it or anything and making it look longer for the sake of dramatic effects right a minute 13 or at the desktop I'm glad you have a clothes making my Nicki Minaj desktop on there right now he likes Nicki Minaj we still boot in there alright so we're gonna go and say was about a minute 15 whatever was I don't know I'll annotate it I was too distracted suddenly by his desktop so anyway it was greater than a minute to boot up the entire system that's a big improvement over what it was though when I turned off all those auto starts alright so let's go ahead and clone this thing and I'll show you how I'm going to do it something needs to improve here because if you look at the disk zoom in on that it's at 100% right now it's at 100% just kind of chillin there doing its thing and as you can see it's pegged I mean look at that look at the performance chart it's pegged all the time because that drive it's tired even though he's done you know defragment and stuff it's just the drive is not able to keep up with the demands of everything else going on and I've looked before in the past to see exactly what was running and it's just background processes for the OS that's pegging out this system he should do a fresh install and a wipe but we're going to clone it anyway just to see for the sake of performance how much better it is and if he decides later he wants to wipe and start over well he's a I do it with an IT degree so he can figure out what he wants to do from there anyway he did go to tech school I totally get au moded mounted that with two sided tape don't judge me alright so to do this I'm gonna use my test bench here and I'm going to use the method here with the this is actually a hyper X external enclosure here I can put the new drive in here and then it basically just uses this USB 3.0 cable and it has power and everything it runs to it so that's the way I'm going to do it if you don't have one of these handy and you literally can just hook both drives up to an existing computer through SATA it's going to be easier to use another computer than the actual drive itself installed because then a Cronus has you have to build an Acronis like boot drive and then it will go into sort of a Doss environment then it will clone it over and then you have to switch them physically and boot it up that takes a lot longer but in this case here this isn't a video about how to clone your drive it's just a video about the speeds comparing this to but since I know people are gonna ask that's how I'm doing it 1 X 1 external enclosure this guy's going to be plugged into SATA in there and then we're going to run the software and clone it now Cronus is actually really really easy you simply select a source you select the destination so you make sure you got the right drive selected and it will clone the drive including the UEFI and everything over exactly as it is so when you put the old the new drive in the system the system will boot regular it will have no issues whatsoever same drive number everything simply because of the fact that it is it's cloning everything the partitions exactly as it's built and then you just put it in your new system and you're off and running alright so the new drive is in we're going to do the exact same test here where we're going to well you know time the boot otherwise what's the whole point of this so in the count of 3 1 2 3 I told them this is the best bang for the buck and I try not to be a liar hopefully I'm not a liar so you see here it's taken approximately 12 seconds to get out of post all right so 30 seconds to get to the windows login screen so we're going to go ahead and do a login here and then we'll continue all right one two three Wow 36 seconds yeah I'd say that was an improvement okay so here's the reality it doesn't matter how fast your processor is your memory is your graphics card or your motherboard if your computer CPU is waiting on information to be found and served by the hard drive then it's going to keep your system slope that hard drive is having a hard time keeping up yeah hard drives have a hard time keeping up these days because you've got a spinning platter and you've got a needle that's got to go and find that information and it can only find bits of information at a time and you can easily bottleneck can you guys love how much I love that word but you can easily bottleneck all of the tasks of the CPU because the hard drive can't keep up well SSDs are amazing because of the fact that it is NAND memory it's pretty much instantaneous and that you can serve or you can actually search the entire Drive pretty much simultaneously rather than dealing with a spinning platter so I know I've done this video before I know I've done it with laptops now I just showed you at the desktop the reality is I will always recommend an SSD to anyone looking to speed up their computer if they're running a hard drive and not an SSD already even if you have failed fairly outdated hardware like this computer here with the old x4 Athlon neo slow memory and an old motherboard because as you can see everything he does now his games load nearly instantaneous is a Marvel Universe loads at least four times faster than it used to and now he can even install World of Warcraft again which he loved playing because it was nearly impossible because of games that take a lot of intense loading time are no longer going to be what's holding him back so I know this video right here was kind of quick it wasn't a whole lot to it but I wanted to show you guys a real-world practical situation here where a friend legitimately asked me how can I make my computer faster made the recommendation applied it and showed you guys the before and after anyway I hope you guys have enjoyed this video if you have any other suggestions on types of improvements you guys want to see comparison apples-to-apples will do that in fact we're going to be we are actually going to be upgrading this computer here in the near future with a newer AMD 970 motherboard we're putting in a AMD 6100 FX I believe it is yeah it's an older CPU but then again it's one that's kind of been sitting around for a while so he's going to gain a couple extra cores and then that alone is also going to improve the overall experience when it comes to his computer anyway guys I'm done rambling tell me what you guys thought hit me up on Twitter and Facebook Instagram and all that stuff and I will see you in the next video