- Oct 11, 2011
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A couple days ago when I came home from work, I noticed my PC felt sluggish. It's hard to explain, but nothing felt as responsive as it normally did. My Battle.net client took longer than usual to start. Diablo 3 took way too long to start, and it also felt really laggy when it's usually very snappy.
Here are my specs:
- CPU i5-4690k
- GPU EVGA Geforce GTX 980 ti
- Mobo MSi Z97 Gaming 5
- PSU Corsair AX760
- 16 GB RAM
- Windows 7
I recently bought upgrades for my computer, so all of the above are pretty new. CPU, Mobo, and half my RAM were purchased in July. GPU was purchased this month. PSU is less than a year old. 8 out of my 16 GB of RAM are fairly old (purchased in 2011), but I purchased the exact same RAM when I bought 8 more GB.
I've done quite a bit to troubleshoot what could be causing this. I ran Malwarebytes Anti-malware, Windows Defender, and Avast and no malware or viruses have been found. I did a check disc and that didn't turn up anything either. I ran Windows Memory Diagnostic tool, which also didn't find anything. If there's something malicious on my system, usually one of the above scanners would have found it, so this makes me believe this issue is hardware-related.
My primary drive that I have WIndows installed on is a Crucial SSD. I also have several secondary drives (2 more SSDs and 1 HDD).
I still have my old GPU (GTX 770) so I tried putting that in to see if my new GPU was the problem, but the issue was still happening. I also tried re-seating my RAM. Still the issue persists. Temperatures look fine, they reached a maximum of 43 Celsius while playing Diablo 3 (while lag was noticeable). I'm really at a loss for what could be causing this. CPU usage doesn't seem abnormally high either.
Does anyone have any idea what else I can do to troubleshoot this or does anyone know what might be causing this sudden performance drop?
Here are my specs:
- CPU i5-4690k
- GPU EVGA Geforce GTX 980 ti
- Mobo MSi Z97 Gaming 5
- PSU Corsair AX760
- 16 GB RAM
- Windows 7
I recently bought upgrades for my computer, so all of the above are pretty new. CPU, Mobo, and half my RAM were purchased in July. GPU was purchased this month. PSU is less than a year old. 8 out of my 16 GB of RAM are fairly old (purchased in 2011), but I purchased the exact same RAM when I bought 8 more GB.
I've done quite a bit to troubleshoot what could be causing this. I ran Malwarebytes Anti-malware, Windows Defender, and Avast and no malware or viruses have been found. I did a check disc and that didn't turn up anything either. I ran Windows Memory Diagnostic tool, which also didn't find anything. If there's something malicious on my system, usually one of the above scanners would have found it, so this makes me believe this issue is hardware-related.
My primary drive that I have WIndows installed on is a Crucial SSD. I also have several secondary drives (2 more SSDs and 1 HDD).
I still have my old GPU (GTX 770) so I tried putting that in to see if my new GPU was the problem, but the issue was still happening. I also tried re-seating my RAM. Still the issue persists. Temperatures look fine, they reached a maximum of 43 Celsius while playing Diablo 3 (while lag was noticeable). I'm really at a loss for what could be causing this. CPU usage doesn't seem abnormally high either.
Does anyone have any idea what else I can do to troubleshoot this or does anyone know what might be causing this sudden performance drop?
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