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SocksyGent

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I just built a new gaming pc less than a week ago.
MOBO: z170mx-gaming 5
CPU: i5 6500 @3.2
GPU: Sapphire RX480 8GB Nitro+ OC
PSU: Thermaltake 80+ gold 750w
HDD: WD Caviar Blue 1TB
Ram: 1x8gb Vengeance LPX DDR4-2400

When I am installing a game (ex: Black Desert Online) my pc slows down so much that i would almost call it a crash. my will only move about once every 10-20 seconds just sitting on the desktop. And if i try to open chrome it becomes unresponsive. My HDD light will also glow solid. Im not sure if something is wrong or if this is normal. I checked the HDD using wmic and got the "ok" status. Im not sure what else to do.
 
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dbratton54

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Question from SocksyGent : "My new PC is basically unusable while installing/downloading games"



With your system specs, you should not have issues when downloading. If you do, it is likely caused by a slow internet connection. Installing is another matter. Installing a game involves unpacking compressed files, file copying, and such. This is going to keep your HDD busy, the CPU busy, and tie up memory too. Since you only list one HDD, anything you try to do is going to impact an already busy drive, so yeah, your system is going to slow down. You can get away with multitasking if you are installing something simple with a small footprint, but anything complex is going to bog your down.
I think you might want to consider installing a SSD for a boot drive. That should help your system speeds. Another 8GB of RAM might also help.

Finally, most installers advise you to close all other programs. You are experiencing why they do so.
 
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SocksyGent

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I thought the large game install might be the case, but I wanted to ask the community just in case. My internet speeds at the time were ~44mbps. I want to mention that I had the same problem while trying to run Pixelmon (minecraft mod) for the first time, and the computer came to a halt. That game is definitely smaller than Black Desert. Skype was also running at the time, maybe it was just too much.

I plan on getting more ram and an SSD in the future, but I just want to make sure that what I'm experiencing is "normal" and not a symptom of hardware or software malfunction.
 
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dbratton54

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I assumed that the issue was solely during installs. Now I am not sure that my advice was sound. If you are experiencing performance issues when doing other things, then the problem may be something else.
 
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SocksyGent

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Sorry, poor use of wording. When I said I first ran the minecraft mod, I didn't specify that it was in fact installing the mod components. And I also had skype running in the background during that install. However, i did just successfully install the mod game (again with skype running). So, yes, the problem has only so far been with game installs, but it has only been consistant with large games like Black Desert and Elder Scrolls Online. So I think you are right in saying that there is just a lot happening with such a large install. ~35gb for Black Desert.
 
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Even with multiple drives, that poor CPU will probably still sit at a very high usage, let alone the amount of ram it's using in single channel. Let your computer do what computers do. There's nothing wrong with your hardware. If your computer wasn't super slow while you were installing games, then I'd be worried.
 
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could be no problem but check temperatures of the cpu and gpu
run prime95 version 26.6 + coretemp
run furmark stresstest

boot memtest86+ installed on an empty usb flash drive

run crystaldiskinfo to check the HDD

Which BIOS version is flashed on the motehrboard?

run 3dmark and post the link of the result which comes up at the end in your bowser
 
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dbratton54

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I should have said earlier that when I am installing a game, I wander off and let the install have the PC for a while. It's an old practice that serves me well. As amtseung points out there is nothing actually wrong with your hardware. I am running an i5 6600k on a Z170 mobo with 16GB of pc3000 RAM and when I install something large-ish on my SSD, I just start the install and walk away for a while.

Odds are, there's nothing wrong with your rig at all.
 
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