What hardware slows down speed to load a program, bottleneck

[C555]

Hi, I have the following setup =

AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6 Core @ 4.1GHz
32GB 3200Mhz Ram
Intel SSD Intel Hardrive SSDSC2BW180A4 (this is quite old)
2x AMD Radeon RX 6600
6x 2560x1440 monitors
B450plus motherboard
Internet - 370mbps / 36mbps Latency all under 30

One of the above seems to be causing a bottleneck when loading new items or if I am using all the screens with charts etc.

Best way to describe it - I want to open a new chart or similar and there is a gap between clicking the mouse and it loading it.
It's the speed of the loading element I'm interested in, I need it to be faster.
I have monitored task manager and other than normal spike's nothing shows any particularly high usage.

Thanks !

[CharlieCrocodile]

Resource monitor will give you more detail of what's happening, not task manager.

overview tab, expand CPU sort by average CPU, expand disk sort by total B/sec, expand network sort by total b/sec

Perform the task and watch resource monitor, better if you've got two screens.

[biggiles]

C555 said:

Internet - 370mbps / 36mbps Latency all under 30

Is that wifi or ethernet? Ethernet is usually much better, and more reliable. I'm going to guess this is some kind of trading so reliability is helpful.

For info, I get sub-8ms ping times to 8.8.8.8 with fibre over a wifi link, so you should be far under 30mbps if this is important to you.

Not that 20ms here and there will be the cause of the problem, but if you are using wifi, then it may be causing other lags/contention.

Otherwise it looks like a powerful PC. You could try running in "safe mode" (assuming this is Windows) to see if it's faster without all the usual Windows software extras.

[sgrimshaw]

How does it perform with just one monitor?

[xeny]

C555 said:

Best way to describe it - I want to open a new chart or similar and there is a gap between clicking the mouse and it loading it.
It's the speed of the loading element I'm interested in, I need it to be faster.

Is this in Excel, a web browser, or what exactly?

Have you checked the processor's heat sink is reasonably free of dust?

[eeLee]

Run ReadSpeed on your SSD.
https://www.grc.com/readspeed.htm

I bet it's degraded.

[mmm-five]

Looks like the Intel SSDSC2BW180A4 is an old SATA SSD (could be over 10 years old), and if everything is running from that single drive, then you've got everything competing for the same resources.

...and if it's getting on a bit, or is quite full, then that's going to slow it down to.

Of course, this isn't necessarily the cause of your problems, as we don't know what 'drawing a chart' actually means in your specific case.

If it's pulling it off a server somewhere, then the server could be causing the delay.

Edited by mmm-five on Monday 6th May 15:54

[BlueMR2]

Older SSD's don't really like being full.

Also a quick search of the model number on a site with user reviews shows its performance being under 200 against 550 for the sata 3 max. iops also make a difference too. Is the drive fairly full?

[Mr Whippy]

What software are you running?

No mention of it so it’s likely your software.

The hdd is a bit old but for excel(?) it’s still plenty I’d say.

My 5600x is like a rocket for everything general desktop related.


I’d say software issue for now,

[C555]

Thanks for all the great input ! To answer some questions -
- It's ethernet connection and yes its for stocks and shares so speed is important.
- One monitor, I shall try this tomorrow.
- Its a standalone trading software but its quite basic and my other PC handles it fine.
- I will check and clean the heatsink.

- I just did a readspeed, as you and others have noticed the SSD is over 10 years old, by far the oldest component.
It has 95gb of 160gb free.
The results were - 448.9 527.8 538.4 539.4 505.3
Would the drop in the first figure be enough to be noticable ?
I have a similar spec work desktop which runs perfectly, the hard drive being the only noticeable difference as the work one is a much more recent build. Makes me think that the hard drive looks the most likely culprit ?

[eeLee]

that slow part is where windows is stored., most likely......so yes.

[xeny]

eeLee said:

that slow part is where windows is stored., most likely......so yes.

I really can't see a 10% drop in speed being significant - apart from anything else, with 32GB of RAM, once the data has been read once from SSD, it will stay cached in RAM, so the SSD has no impact.

OP - is the problem there every time you click, or only the first time?

I'm guessing the trading software is pulling the data from the internet? What is behind the numbers in "Internet - 370mbps / 36mbps Latency all under 30"?

There's no chance the other PC is wired and this one is on WiFi, or with a worse signal?