Power loss on 3 months old build

Ahmad86

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Oct 24, 2015
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Hi everybody, this is my first time posting on Tom's Hardware and I hope my problem will be solved. I built my first pc ever 3 months ago, after 1 year and a half of saving (im 14). It has an AMD FX-6300, GTX 960 100ME and 8GB of HyperX Fury. At the beggining, it was the best pc i've ever played on; GTA 5 @ 60FPS, BF4 @ 60FPS, BF Hardline @ 60FPS. Once I opened it for cable management, it got slightly slower...and slower. I reformated it, no difference. Got a new cooler (H100i GTX) and it's always kicking at high rpm's and it's LOUD. Recently i've been playing Mafia 2. Always on 60 FPS, until this morning. I opened the case to check something, unplugged the GPU and plugged it back. I booted the pc, slow as usual, started a torrent and launched Mafia 2. Game was running at like 15-20 fps...Does someone know what's going on? Thank you:)
System:
CPU: FX-6300
GPU: GTX 960 100ME
RAM: 8GB (2 sticks) HyperX Fury 1866 running at 1600 (due to the mb)
MB: Gigabyte 78LMT-USB3
HDD: 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm
PSU: CM Elite 550
CASE: Enermax Ostrog
COOLER: Corsair H100i GTX
 
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Launched a Torrent & started playing a game ???

You are most likely having trojans & virus's sent to you via the torrent & the game will be maxing out you cpu, so you antivirus (if any) will not do its job, slowing down could also be a Hacker, torrent downloading is not safe & you use your machine as a gamer ?

All this said spyware & malicous software could be hacking (or a hacker ?) away at your operating system causing errors to taking your clock cycles away giving you poor performance.

Re-format your operating system, make a clone in its new state with all the software loaded in, then use the clone
as you os with the original os offline, so every time it slows down just copy the original back to the clone os to restore your gaming, or use a seperate machine for torrent downloading with full internet security.
 
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