That depends on the specs and the PC's usage
The PC is pretty powerful with 8 cores, 40Gb RAM and SSD throughout. The blockchain is on its own disk.
This should've been written beforehand.
I completely agree.
As the others said, such a setup should handle easily Bitcoin Core.
OP another ideas:
1. Double check that the data dir is indeed on the separate SSD and not %AppData%\Bitcoin
2. Consider adding the data dir to your antivirus exclusion