- Apr 1, 2013
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Hello, it's been a while since I've been around here. What did I miss?
So my problem is my gaming build. I say mid-high level but the components are a few years old now so maybe it's not considered that anymore. My build:
i5 3570k
2x 4GB Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz
GTX 670 MSI Dual fan OC
PSU: Coolermaster GX650W Bronze
The problem with my build is that it has very bad lag/stuttering frequently. It's not 100% of the time but it is frequent, probably has an incident every few minutes. Stuttering as in games freeze for a few seconds, so do other basic things like typing. I type a sentence out and nothing changes on screen until a few seconds later it types out onscreen very quickly. Even CAPS LOCK lags. That's right, I press caps lock and sometimes it will take the PC a few seconds to turn the light on the keyboard on and activate caps lock.
Some things that tend to cause these problems/make them worse:
The first 10-15 minutes after starting the computer
Opening new programs
Tabbing between programs.
Saving simple documents always take several seconds and near freeze the computer, on any generic office computer the same task would happen in a flash.
The only thing I know is that I had my PC running without the graphics card when I originally built it and it ran smooth as butter. Then when I bought and added the graphics card several months later it ran into these problems. The first indicator was how the PC now took 10x longer the startup than before the GPU was installed. Over the years these issues seem to have become progressively worse, gradually I think. Stuttering in videos began to happen more and more frequently etc.
I am not sure but the PSU may have been tightly plugged in, maybe slightly pulling at the connection to the GPU and possibly other components. Is this a likely cause for these type of problems? Would the components last this many years in this case?
Any and all help would be much appreciated.
So my problem is my gaming build. I say mid-high level but the components are a few years old now so maybe it's not considered that anymore. My build:
i5 3570k
2x 4GB Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz
GTX 670 MSI Dual fan OC
PSU: Coolermaster GX650W Bronze
The problem with my build is that it has very bad lag/stuttering frequently. It's not 100% of the time but it is frequent, probably has an incident every few minutes. Stuttering as in games freeze for a few seconds, so do other basic things like typing. I type a sentence out and nothing changes on screen until a few seconds later it types out onscreen very quickly. Even CAPS LOCK lags. That's right, I press caps lock and sometimes it will take the PC a few seconds to turn the light on the keyboard on and activate caps lock.
Some things that tend to cause these problems/make them worse:
The first 10-15 minutes after starting the computer
Opening new programs
Tabbing between programs.
Saving simple documents always take several seconds and near freeze the computer, on any generic office computer the same task would happen in a flash.
The only thing I know is that I had my PC running without the graphics card when I originally built it and it ran smooth as butter. Then when I bought and added the graphics card several months later it ran into these problems. The first indicator was how the PC now took 10x longer the startup than before the GPU was installed. Over the years these issues seem to have become progressively worse, gradually I think. Stuttering in videos began to happen more and more frequently etc.
I am not sure but the PSU may have been tightly plugged in, maybe slightly pulling at the connection to the GPU and possibly other components. Is this a likely cause for these type of problems? Would the components last this many years in this case?
Any and all help would be much appreciated.
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