Hey,
I've recently noticed a big drop in my video cards performance and I really can't figure out what's going on here. Playing movies on VLC player are a little sluggish, and games are pretty annoying to play despite graphics settings on low (all games I used to play 100% lag free). I've even noticed minecraft having very low FPS which is odd and making me think it's not necessarily my video card but my CPU or something else.
This seemed to have happened quite randomly and the only thing I can narrow it down to is a hardware problem.
Here's what I've tried:
Going back on a restore point, removing any and all viruses and/or spyware, and I also updated my video card. Didnt see a difference after all that. Nothing suspicious seems to be appearing on task manager or anywhere else, although SVchost.exe is being a pretty big memory hog, accounting for about 200k memory, but that may be normal.
My temperatures seem a bit hot (image is attached), but as far as I can tell all my fans seem to be running fine (even my video cards fan).
Also, I think one or two of my temp sensors got loose and are tucked away somewhere so that could explain 2 of those high temps.
Here are some specs:
AMD Athlon II x4 640
Gigabyte GA-770T-USB3
4 gb DDR3 ram
windows 7 64bit
Nvidia geforce GTX 460
One more thing, my PSU went bad a little while ago and I replaced it with what I'd consider a cheap PSU (wattage should be fine). I know you shouldnt get a cheap PSU but I had already bought it before I realized and I figured I'd try it out. It seems to be running fine but I wonder if a cheap PSU can be blamed? However, I've been using it for a few months and haven't had any problems.
Any ideas?
I've recently noticed a big drop in my video cards performance and I really can't figure out what's going on here. Playing movies on VLC player are a little sluggish, and games are pretty annoying to play despite graphics settings on low (all games I used to play 100% lag free). I've even noticed minecraft having very low FPS which is odd and making me think it's not necessarily my video card but my CPU or something else.
This seemed to have happened quite randomly and the only thing I can narrow it down to is a hardware problem.
Here's what I've tried:
Going back on a restore point, removing any and all viruses and/or spyware, and I also updated my video card. Didnt see a difference after all that. Nothing suspicious seems to be appearing on task manager or anywhere else, although SVchost.exe is being a pretty big memory hog, accounting for about 200k memory, but that may be normal.
My temperatures seem a bit hot (image is attached), but as far as I can tell all my fans seem to be running fine (even my video cards fan).
Also, I think one or two of my temp sensors got loose and are tucked away somewhere so that could explain 2 of those high temps.
Here are some specs:
AMD Athlon II x4 640
Gigabyte GA-770T-USB3
4 gb DDR3 ram
windows 7 64bit
Nvidia geforce GTX 460
One more thing, my PSU went bad a little while ago and I replaced it with what I'd consider a cheap PSU (wattage should be fine). I know you shouldnt get a cheap PSU but I had already bought it before I realized and I figured I'd try it out. It seems to be running fine but I wonder if a cheap PSU can be blamed? However, I've been using it for a few months and haven't had any problems.
Any ideas?
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