Is it normal to lag and stutter like this?

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Hello..

I have a pc with a 3770k, gtx 680, 8gb ram, Windows 7 64, etc..
Everything was fine 2 or 3 weeks ago until I had a problem that I think was caused by an office crack since it was detected as a virus and in the following two/three days to that, my pc did freeze when I wanted to shut it down, and I had to reboot it to shut down again. After that I formatted my hdd and made a clean installation of everything but then I noticed a lot of lag while installing the programs besides wrong hdd free space and I didn't had those problems when I built it. And my games are not 100% smooth like before but they have some stuttering and some little lag when playing very fast scenes and explossions.. I would say a 98.8% It's not really that bad or annoying but I'm worried because it was not like this before, and btw if I leave some files copying to another hdd in the background while gaming the lag increases.
So I'm pretty sure that it may be my 2tb wd black and I'm afraid it was caused by the forced restarts or the virus...
What do you think? Do you have some lag or stutter from time to time on tour pc's? Is it normal?
I did some tests with the WD smart utility and the results for the quick and long tests were PASS but I've read that these utilities are not reliable.
 
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I would not throw away the disk.

I would make sure all the drivers got installed correctly. I would reload chipset drivers from your MB, video drivers, then let windows update chew on it for a while.

Remember there are all sorts of Win background tasks (indexer for example) that run hard the first few days then only run when you change things.

I would install the free windows antivirus "microsoft security essentials" direct from MS and let it do a full scan. I would also download a free bootable scan from Norten. If you got a virus it might have gotten to any other PC on your home network, and then back to your PC.

No need to pirate software. The education versions are cheap. OpenOffice is slow, but free. SteamOS will run many...
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Well maybe the virus is still there and I'd like to know hot to check a hidden virus. The office software is not installed and the pc is not freezing again.It seems fine but with that slight issue.
 
I would not throw away the disk.

I would make sure all the drivers got installed correctly. I would reload chipset drivers from your MB, video drivers, then let windows update chew on it for a while.

Remember there are all sorts of Win background tasks (indexer for example) that run hard the first few days then only run when you change things.

I would install the free windows antivirus "microsoft security essentials" direct from MS and let it do a full scan. I would also download a free bootable scan from Norten. If you got a virus it might have gotten to any other PC on your home network, and then back to your PC.

No need to pirate software. The education versions are cheap. OpenOffice is slow, but free. SteamOS will run many games, etc.
 
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