Slow loading ASUS ROG GL753-VD

[Stefy]

Hey everyone! A couple of days ago, I've bought ASUS ROG GL-753VD laptop and it isn't as good as I expected. As a matter of fact, I have problems with loading, mostly in OS. It boots slow, needs like 1-2 minutes, at first opens very slow every program and after a while works good, but it really pisses me off. My old computer which was ten times worse was faster in loading data in OS. The specs are:

ASUS ROG Strix GL753VD-DS71 17.3

Processor
Intel® Core™ i7-7700HQ 2.8GHz (Turbo up to 3.8GHz)

Operating System
Windows 10 Pro (64bit)

Memory
8GB DDR4 2400MHz

Display
17.3" FHD (1920*1080), matte

Graphic
NVIDIA GTX1050 4GB GDDR5

Storage
1TB (7200 RPM) HDD

I was thinking about upgrading to 16 GB RAM, but I'm not sure if that's gonna speed up the process of loading. I gues that an SSD drive would do the trick, but if you have any tips for this laptop or you've experienced, I'd appreciate the help. I've watched some videos on the net of people using it, and it's faster than mine, althought theirs had 16 GB RAM. Thanks.

[Chino]

Depends on what you plan to do with your laptop. In most situations, a SSD is a more noticeable upgrade than getting more memory. 🙂

[Stefy]

Well, I use it mostly for video rendering, Visual Studio basics, Photoshop basics and will use it for gaming later, but I need some tip to load the OS faster and data. I rendered a video yesterday, and it did great, but it's still slow in reading data from a hard drive or USB, starting a program and that kind of things.

[adrao]

Stefy wrote:
Well, I use it mostly for video rendering, Visual Studio basics, Photoshop basics and will use it for gaming later, but I need some tip to load the OS faster and data. I rendered a video yesterday, and it did great, but it's still slow in reading data from a hard drive or USB, starting a program and that kind of things.

I would first upgrade to a M2 NVMe SSD stick since you also have a free slot on your GL753. Bigger and faster bandwitdth than replacing your HDD with another SSD. Otherwise if you don't mind giving up your CD/DVD bay you can replace it with a HDD/SSD caddy and add a second or third storage unit like I have.
Your boot time for Windows 10 will be super fast (compared to the 7200rpm HDD). My GL753VD boots in under 4 seconds with Fast Boot activated!

If you have more cash to throw, you can think about upgrading another stick of 8GB of DDR4-2400 on the empty slot (preferably of the same brand or timings as your preinstalled OEM RAM).
Specially if you work on video/photo editing, data intensive applications, gaming or multitasking, 16GB is enough so you don't run out of memory even if you disable the paging file on Windows or enable read/write caching to memory.

It makes sense to upgrade the M2 before adding more memory because there will be a qualitative difference instead of just a cuantitative one.