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Please help me. I'm completely new with working inside a desktop pc. I watch a lot of youtube, like Austin Evans and linus tech tips, and I thought it would be easy to just upgrade my system, so I bought myself a rx480 4gb. After hours of running into issues with just installing a GPU, I finally thought I had finished it.
My old gpu was a 750ti, and I'm working with a prebuilt system by Ironside. I had u installed the NVIDEA drivers, plugged in the gpu and PCI E cable (2+6 to make the 8), and installed the amd rx480 drivers. So I was super hyped to use my new amazing gpu. I decided to test if it was working, so I opened CSGO and then BAM. It was running worse than before, even at recommended. I didn't and still don't know why it wasn't working. Then I tried to do some stuff, reboot my computer a couple times, and now my pc is just slow in general. Applications are constantly not responding, I can't even try to open a game, my pc says that there is 100% disk usage, even though when I look though the apps nothing I can't find anything usin any of it. It's super stressful and I have no idea what is going on.
I have no idea if I plied something in wrong/loosened a plug but I dont think so. I just want my pc to work again, and to be able to use my 200 dollars gpu that's suppose to rock.

My specs are:
CPU: Intel core i5 4590 3.30 GHz
GPU: MSI RX480 4GB
Harddrive: 2TB Toshiba
PSU: Thermaltake TR2 600W
8gb of RAM
Motherboard: ASROCK H81M-DGS

Edit: please help me... I'm getting so frustrated and hopeless... I shut my computer completely off, unplugged the hard drive and plugged it back in, and it's just made the situation worse. It takes so much longer for it to turn on.
 
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Is there any specific one i should use? And would that help at all for the 100% disk usage? because I think that's what is really slowing it down, because it's just become slow at everything, especially boot up. When I look at it's performance it's reading and writing at about 100 kb/s. Is it possible that it is the quality of the PSU which might be influencing everything's performance?
 
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You don't seem to be that much tech savt but can you get a bootable pen together?

I'm more used to using Linux so I'm not the most useful person for you but here is my suggestion:

Get a thumb drive installed with MultiSystem (http://liveusb.info/dotclear/). You can even burn the image to a CD and run it from there.
This Distro comes with an Ubuntu setup that will give you access to your system without need to install anything to the disk but will use the available system resources; if the system persists in running very sluggish, check your PSU first.

There are a few suites for system recovery/analysis you can run and install to a thumb drive using MultiSystem but I can't recall any at the moment. I use Linux so breaking a machine tends to be somewhat hard... ;)

I'll try to find a few and will post back but try to run your system from a live medium. If its still sluggish, its probably a psu checking out.
 
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I don't think it's a problem on the application side of things. I wish I could upload screenshots... But anyway it stays at 100% no matter what, even if the application using it the most is "system" using 0.1 MB/s.

 
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I'm sorry, but I tried to do some research and understand what you just asked me to do... but I still have no idea XD. From what I understand, I need to install something onto the USB to avoid using the hard drive, to see if the problem is coming from somewhere else? However, I'm not sure how to setup a "bootable pen", or what to do after that... The websites in French and I have no idea what I'm doing. If you had to pretend like you were talking to a 3-year-old, how would you explain what to do in simple terms :)? Thx
Also, just wanted to say another weird thing happened today: I was worried about tampering anymore with my computer, and so I wanted to backup some of my really important files, and when I was transferring the files, the hard drive seemed to work fine! it was still at 100% usage, but it was reading and writing at around 8 MB/s or so, which I mean I think is fine. I'm not sure what to think of this because this is the one instance it has gone over 1 MB/s since I have been facing the problem.
 
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Reinstalling Windows is a good suggestion but let's try to diagnose if the problem is on the hardware or software side.


Let's forget about creating a bootable USB pen. For now.

Copy this link and paste it into your browser address bar (http://liveusb.info/multisystem/cd-boot-liveusb.iso); it should (hopefully!) prompt you directly to a download. Save the ISO image and burn it to a CD.
You will then have a bootable CD that will make your hardware respond to an entire OS without the need to install anything.

Insert the CD in the drive and boot your machine. Modern motherboards have a hotkey to access boot device (try esc, f6, f8... One should work.) if not you will have to manually change the boot sequence for your machine at BIOS level.

Boot the machine from the CD (it will give the choice between english and french language) and select "run live cd" option to have the system load to the memory of your system. Depending on the amount of RAM and power of the CPU you have, it will take from a few seconds to a few minutes. You are not doing an installation.

You will be prompted to a fully working Ubuntu GNOME desktop. At this stage, just open a few programs and test the reaction of your machine. Surf the web, go to Youtube, open a word file, an excel sheet, just try and put some load on your system. If it is responding well, hardware issues are out the window and you're left with the work of most probably reinstalling windows from scratch.

If the machine is still running sluggish, start by checking if the CPU cooler is running. You can either have a CPU overheating and taxing out or in the worst case scenario you may be facing a PSU about to croak.

Logging out of the LiveSystem is easy. Just select on yout top-right corner the option for logging out and the system will shut down and eject the CD by itself before turning of the machine.

Good luck and I hope I was able to help.
 
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Well, for anyone who ends up on this post:
After multiple re installations of windows, the purchase of a new psu, and deciding to download the drivers from amd instead of msi, it's pretty much working
 
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