Firstly the problem, when i play video games, my cpu frequency, according to the resource monitor, spikes to around 110-120%. When these spikes occur, the games either lag, or all together stop.
Secondly, the exact history. The lags began some time around 2 weeks ago on a game called Archeage, a high resource MMO game, and i figured it might just be because of my internet or because i was playing on an American server, but the lag continued on when i moved to a European server. The lags got worse though, and even started to effect my lower resource game League of Legends in the last few days. Today, the lag topped out so badly that even when i closed the game down the computer would not work.
At the weekend, when the lag began effecting League i installed a CPU thermometer, which showed the CPU temp at 48-51 degrees Celsius for the 4 cores and a load of between 40-70% on each of the 4 cores. When the CPU went really bad this morning the load on the cores went up to 100%.
So far to fix this issue I have tried; replacing the thermal compound, cleaning all the fans in the computer of any dust, installing new drivers for my motherboard chipsets and new drivers for my GPU (a friend suggested the GPU drivers might help) and i tried changing some of the BIOS settings, though only the basic ones between "normal, eco friendly and turbo" settings as I know little to nothing about overclocking and so avoid it like the plague.
As for my setup I have:
EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 Superclocked ACX 2GB GDDR5 Graphics Card (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00DMB6D8W?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00)
Intel Core i5 i5-4690K CPU (Quad Core 3.5GHz Processor, 6MB Cache, Intel HD 4600 Graphics, Socket H3 LGA-1150)
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00KPRWB9G?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s01)
Mod 1150 ASUS Z97-A ATX Motherboard
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00K80MMJ4?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s03)
Corsair CMZ8GX3M1A1600C10B 8GB (1x 8GB) Vengeance DDR3 Memory Module Kit - Blue
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009M0TCBC?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s02)
and
Corsair Gaming Series 2013 Edition GS 700W ATX/EPS 80 PLUS Bronze Power Supply Unit
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00AMLKGQU?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00)
Any help you can offer would be great, i've looked in a few places so far with no joy, and really would like to avoid buying a whole new system, so anything remotely helpful will hopefully save me some cash.
Secondly, the exact history. The lags began some time around 2 weeks ago on a game called Archeage, a high resource MMO game, and i figured it might just be because of my internet or because i was playing on an American server, but the lag continued on when i moved to a European server. The lags got worse though, and even started to effect my lower resource game League of Legends in the last few days. Today, the lag topped out so badly that even when i closed the game down the computer would not work.
At the weekend, when the lag began effecting League i installed a CPU thermometer, which showed the CPU temp at 48-51 degrees Celsius for the 4 cores and a load of between 40-70% on each of the 4 cores. When the CPU went really bad this morning the load on the cores went up to 100%.
So far to fix this issue I have tried; replacing the thermal compound, cleaning all the fans in the computer of any dust, installing new drivers for my motherboard chipsets and new drivers for my GPU (a friend suggested the GPU drivers might help) and i tried changing some of the BIOS settings, though only the basic ones between "normal, eco friendly and turbo" settings as I know little to nothing about overclocking and so avoid it like the plague.
As for my setup I have:
EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 Superclocked ACX 2GB GDDR5 Graphics Card (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00DMB6D8W?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00)
Intel Core i5 i5-4690K CPU (Quad Core 3.5GHz Processor, 6MB Cache, Intel HD 4600 Graphics, Socket H3 LGA-1150)
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00KPRWB9G?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s01)
Mod 1150 ASUS Z97-A ATX Motherboard
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00K80MMJ4?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s03)
Corsair CMZ8GX3M1A1600C10B 8GB (1x 8GB) Vengeance DDR3 Memory Module Kit - Blue
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009M0TCBC?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s02)
and
Corsair Gaming Series 2013 Edition GS 700W ATX/EPS 80 PLUS Bronze Power Supply Unit
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00AMLKGQU?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00)
Any help you can offer would be great, i've looked in a few places so far with no joy, and really would like to avoid buying a whole new system, so anything remotely helpful will hopefully save me some cash.
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