- Oct 9, 2015
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As the title suggests, my computer started becoming slow about a week ago. Symptoms include extremely long restart times (a lot longer than turning off the computer and turning it on again), applications running slowly, long load in times, and low fps in games no matter what settings I put.
My build at that time was:
MSI 970 Gaming Motherboard
AMD FX-6300 6-Core Processor Black Edition
Hyper 212 EVO
EVGA GTX 650 2GB
Kingston HyperX FURY 16GB Kit (2x8GB) 1866MHz DDR3 CL10 DIMM
WD Blue WDH2D0010HNC-NRSN Hard Drive
Kingwin 650W BTX
At first I thought it was my graphics card getting old so I replaced it with the EVGA GTX 950 but my problem still persisted.
Next I assumed that it was perhaps my hard drive getting slow since I have had bad luck with them in the past so I bought the Samsung 850 EVO 250GB only for it to do nothing.
Then I bought a new power supply (Cosair CX500) since the one I had was at least 4 years old and I thought in it's old age it could no longer provide my computer with enough juice,but, again I was wrong.
Tired of spending money, I decided to use anything I had at my disposal to eliminate as many factors as possible.
I've...
...reinstalled windows twice and updated everything (Graphics card, Mobo, Bios)
...overclocked my cpu
...swapped out the processor with my old AMD Phenom II X4 965
...run memory diagnostics on both my current and old RAM with nothing to show for it
One weird thing is that whenever I replace both ram sticks or only take out one, the computer will run fast and I would get normal FPS....until I restarted the computer. Also, another weird thing is that my computer will refuse to turn on whenever I put in my FX-6300 now despite it working absolutely fine on another computer.
This problem is making me pull my hair out since nothing seems to work. Thanks in advance for any answers.
Current build as of this post
MSI 970 Gaming Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 965
Hyper 212 EVO
EVGA GTX 950
Kingston HyperX FURY 16GB Kit (2x8GB) 1866MHz DDR3 CL10 DIMM
Samsung 850 EVO 250GB
Cosair CX500
My build at that time was:
MSI 970 Gaming Motherboard
AMD FX-6300 6-Core Processor Black Edition
Hyper 212 EVO
EVGA GTX 650 2GB
Kingston HyperX FURY 16GB Kit (2x8GB) 1866MHz DDR3 CL10 DIMM
WD Blue WDH2D0010HNC-NRSN Hard Drive
Kingwin 650W BTX
At first I thought it was my graphics card getting old so I replaced it with the EVGA GTX 950 but my problem still persisted.
Next I assumed that it was perhaps my hard drive getting slow since I have had bad luck with them in the past so I bought the Samsung 850 EVO 250GB only for it to do nothing.
Then I bought a new power supply (Cosair CX500) since the one I had was at least 4 years old and I thought in it's old age it could no longer provide my computer with enough juice,but, again I was wrong.
Tired of spending money, I decided to use anything I had at my disposal to eliminate as many factors as possible.
I've...
...reinstalled windows twice and updated everything (Graphics card, Mobo, Bios)
...overclocked my cpu
...swapped out the processor with my old AMD Phenom II X4 965
...run memory diagnostics on both my current and old RAM with nothing to show for it
One weird thing is that whenever I replace both ram sticks or only take out one, the computer will run fast and I would get normal FPS....until I restarted the computer. Also, another weird thing is that my computer will refuse to turn on whenever I put in my FX-6300 now despite it working absolutely fine on another computer.
This problem is making me pull my hair out since nothing seems to work. Thanks in advance for any answers.
Current build as of this post
MSI 970 Gaming Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 965
Hyper 212 EVO
EVGA GTX 950
Kingston HyperX FURY 16GB Kit (2x8GB) 1866MHz DDR3 CL10 DIMM
Samsung 850 EVO 250GB
Cosair CX500
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