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‎12-18-2020 12:38 AM

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Product: Example: Pavilion Ryzen 5
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I bought a HP Pavilion Gaming Ryzen 5 laptop 3 days ago.

The following are some specs:

RAM : 8GB

HDD : 1TB

NVidia Geforce GTX 1650 (4GB)

 

Basic multitasking is slow and laggy. Opening programs takes a while. I've been running it almost non-stop since I got it though. Could that slow down the PC?

Once a program opens up, it runs pretty smooth. GTA V and Adobe CC 2020 products work fine.

I find the occasional lag, to the point where it takes almost 3 seconds to view the next image in photo gallery.

I'm paranoid about the hard drive. I hear a constant noise of it running, similar to an external HDD I have, occasionally. No clicks or screeches. Is that normal?

It does get pretty heated up and the fan turns on once in a while. Could this heating slow down the hard drive?

It does run heavy programs, but Windows in general, I feel is lagg-ier than my previous laptop's. I'm on Windows 10 Home 20H2.

 

Are new laptops generally like this? Or is there a defect with the hard drive?

 

TIA!

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