Windows 7 is dead and people who do not want to buy a new PC or a Laptop for Windows 10 are unhappy. If you are one of them and your PC is too slow to run Windows 10. This is what you can do to install and run Windows 10 smoothly on your PC.

We are talking about the smallest and the best investment you can make to bring life back to your old computer. Please check the minimum system requirements mentioned by Microsoft before proceeding.

Best Solution to speed up your old PC or Laptop and install Windows 10

If your PC is old and you do not want to invest much money on it but you want to use it at the same time. Buy an SSD. It is a super cheap and easy solution to bring your old PC back to life.

Many say that it does not change the system speed much, you have to upgrade a PC anyway, etc. If you have a PC with Quad-core or even a dual-core processor with the clock speed higher than 1.5GHZ, you have to buy an SSD.

Does My Laptop / PC Support SSD?

Almost all the systems will support an SSD as you just need a SATA port. In the case of a desktop computer, you can also buy an M.2 SSD if you have an M.2 slot on your motherboard. The main thing to check is the revision of the SATA port available on the laptop or desktop motherboard. You will probably find SATA 3 port in most of the systems launched after 2010. Anyway, it’s backward compatible so you do not need to worry if you buy a SATA 3 SSD.

We recommend buying a 2.5 inch SSD which will be good for both your laptop and desktop. SSDs are available in various sizes starting from 32GB which will be minimum to install windows 10 and goes long way to 2 TB over more. We recommend buying at least 128 GB. You will pay as less as $25 for a 128 GB SSD.

How much improvement in speed you can expect with SSD?

This is a very controversial question. However, we can prove that this investment will not let you down in any sense. You will see a drastic change in the speed of your PC. An SSD can read sequential data at the speed of 550 MB/S and write at 550 MB/S. If you compare this speed with a fast 7200 RPM Hard disk drive, the speed falls at 125 MB/S. It is clear that an SSD is more than 2 times faster than a hard disk drive.

My Story:

For instance, we experimented the same on a comparatively old laptop which had a 7200 RPM HDD, AMD A8 7410 processor which boosts up to 2.5 GHz clock speed, 8 GB DDR3 RAM and a dedicated 2GB VRAM for the GPU. After using it for 3 years extensively, it became very slow. All the small solutions of clearing browser cache, deleting temp files, etc failed.

The PC was slower than a dual Pentium. I do have other new systems at home but I was wondering what changed in 3 years. Being aware that installing SSD may improve its boot time and a bit of performance, I was still not sure if it will be good for light emulated gaming or office work. I just wanted to give it a try to see the real performance boost.

I bought the 128 GB SSD and installed windows 10 on my PC. If you already own a Windows 10 and you just want to upgrade SSD on your computer, you can simply find the windows key of your computer and use it to install windows on SSD.

When I started using the PC after the installation of SSD. The difference was of day and night. Simply I couldn’t imagine such an improvement. I could suddenly open the end number of tabs on chrome, could multitask flawlessly and play emulated and Online streaming games on Nvidia’s Gforce Now app without the smallest issue.

I also have an i5 9400f powered desktop computer and I must admit that many times I forget that I am using my old low powered laptop. It almost works like the latest computer until you are playing high-end games on it. I will be writing a full gaming comparison on this old machine vs my new i5 9th-gen desktop.

Upcoming Exciting Story

I will be testing both Playstation now and Gforce Now and compare frame rates. I am very much sure that we will not find much difference. If you dream of playing AAA games on a low-end system, you have to add an SSD on your machine. Also, let us know if you want us to cover a topic of your choice. We take feedback from our readers seriously and implement them at work.

Conclusion

Do not listen to those who say SSD just improves gaming and system loading time. As per my experiment, you will see a huge difference in your PC if you snap an SSD in it.