Its really not normal. Replace it with Linux on a SSD drive, it will be much faster. There is really no point of using Windows unless you play video-games or use windows-only special softwares.
Best performance upgrade created in the last 10 years IMO. I even put my video media on an SSD while I’m editing it, and then just move it all to a storage drive when I’m done. That much activity will probly kill the drive faster, but for me the time saved is totally worth it.
Especially if anyone here has or is looking at buying a Ryzen CPU, RAM clock is important too. When I finally realized I had my 3200MHz RAM underclocked in UEFI… wow, what a difference it made, especially in gaming.
As I wrote before I migrated a 1TB data SSD from the Laptop to new PC
It was running on an 850 EVO 500GB for Windows and 1 TB 860 EVO Data plus 2TB HDD
I don’t know what is broken, the GPU pulls current and stays relative cool, I replaced thermal paste, no change
It may be some data problem on PCI Express or so, CPU and GPU are soldered to the main board so no chance to fix it, the Laptop is trash as it is, I will but it to Ebay as broken/partially working
This main board is so tiny, Back side for 2. SDD, of course not replace friendly within the CPU back side opening
Installing the SSD, first remove the CPU cooler and the cooling block
SSD with cooling block mounted and fans installed (of course the wrong way around to find out later)
trying tonstall the back side SSD, I noticed that the spacer to screw there is too high
So again back to the other side, of course I had also already the CPU cooler installed, so disassemble all again just to find out that the one spacer is too long
Then checked again the main board box with all the components, finding inside an AMD manual and leftovers from Cooler assembly marked with big sticker Intel
I had to unscrew the main board to get the SSD installed
At this point I contacted the support but screwed the SSD cooling top with no pressure on it and did a boot test with old win 8.1 from the original MSI OS
(I installed later Win 7 Ultimate on a 2. SSD and changed the boot HDD), back side SSD
So now powering it up I found out the front fans blow outside the case not inside
The other side of the PC for cable management and final component side
CPU cooler is pretty much surrounded by fans
Top view, later enhanced the air flow taping front side
Adding to the main board and PSU cables for SATA drives
Temporary installing the old external drive internal to speed up the copy, here a random picture from copy process but very funny movie
As the 2 top USB ports are not really usable as the PC barely fits under my desk I added a 4 port to the side with 2 sided tape, also a card reader
Test of my PC with the best result, of course that other GPU is far more overclocked with water cooling, mine is the cheapest with only 2 fans and short PCB
Its unlikely. Early models were less good but now most are even more reliable than the traditional mechanic drive, who will be soon obsolete technology.
Very nice QoL change, even knowing what to do it took me a couple weeks to realize I needed to enable XMP to actually apply my RAM clock settings. This will make things much easier for people.