NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2GB major performance drop after a year of use why?

Antics7

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My question is a simple one, why would my graphics card start dropping in performance after only about a year? I understand that its not the latest and greatest and that newly release games require more juice, however even when playing games that it ran well a year ago now it can hardly keep up?

Mainly talking about CSGO, i used to be able to play CSGO, run Chrome and play Spotify at the same time, now if I have Chrome open CSGO has stutter lag issues. I've resorted to playing only in low quality and sometimes mid if I am running nothing else.

I've dusted the inside of my computer as it was somewhat dusty but other than that IDK what else to do.

TL: DR video graphics card performance dropped a lot during a year, even while playing the same games I used to.
 

Antics7

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thanks for the reply, upon checking task mananger randomly just for the heck of it, right now I notice multiple instances of various programs...I will run a boot time scan, although I doubt i've got anything but just for the heck of it.