Poor SFF Lenovo

robinbanks said:
Performance on a single decades old mechanical hard disk is going to be generally terrible
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It would not be terrible on XP. It all depends on what the machine is used for. For browsing only, you don't need more than XP. For office apps, windows 7 will allow some of the more recent app versions. CPU performance does matter. You can't just go by when the CPU came out. Benchmarks will give a clue. Regressing the OS is one of the ways to deal with performance issues. The newer the OS, more bloated it is in terms of background processes.

Here's how I look at performance. Slowest was XP CPU, next up I used for Windows 7 and Windows 10, Next up Windows 10. The fastest one is probably in the 50 percentile performance of all current PC's. It isn't fast but OK. At most i5-4570T, should run Windows 7 with SSD. Otherwise it's a struggle.

 
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Hi,
Can you give me more details of the system please.
Is it a thinkcentre m (whatever)

There are upgrade paths available which will eek you another couple of years out of it.
Most pertinent question is what do you want to do with it?
If it's gaming you'll need a discrete GPU of some description, and with it being SFF it's likely to need a half height.
Your CPU is a 35 Watt device, there are i7/Xeon's in the 45 Watt range but without details of the variant you have it's difficult to say if it will either work and/or have sufficient cooling.
Definitely invest in an SSD, the ar$e has fallen out of the solid state memory currently, so 500Gb/1Tb SATA drives are cheap as chips. As your processor is 2013+ vintage and NVME was released as a technology in 2012 this might be another option but impossible to tell without more information on the system.

I might have parts that can give you an uplift, let me know the model number and i'll see what I've got kicking around CPU wise.

Cheers
Lee
 
Installed linux on usb stick and boots ok, then got warning hard drive is about to die.

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I'd probably go with something smaller/cheaper on a box that old unless you really need the full 512G
 
hllns said:
I'd probably go with something smaller/cheaper on a box that old unless you really need the full 512G
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It's only £20 - storage is cheap at the moment. It can always be utilised elsewhere in the future.
Though personally, I would go for a better known brand :)
 
Ah didn't double check price, only went by the price in the screenshot, 15-20 quid is about right and would get you a name brand.
 
Having installed SSD and new copy of windows benchmarks shows the system is even worse than the previous score. Beginning to doubt the accuracy of benchmarks.As part of an upgrade it recommends the installation of the same SSD it just condemned.
 
foxhole said:
Having installed SSD and new copy of windows benchmarks shows the system is even worse than the previous score. Beginning to doubt the accuracy of benchmarks.As part of an upgrade it recommends the installation of the same SSD it just condemned.
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Odd, my decade old, and battered Acer absolutely flew after I replaced the HDD with an SSD.

My latest laptop, crawled, whilst the M2 SSD was none functioning, when relying on the HDD. With the M2 back to functioning, it really flies again.
 
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