I recently opened up my PC case and cleaned it out with a can of compressed air, but when I tried to start it it wouldn't. After several tries I finally got it to run and everything seemed normal, but now I notice that in games such as Guild Wars 2 and Overwatch I start to lag horribly in crowded areas and when there is lots of stuff happening on the screen. My FPS can even dip as low as 5 frames while I'm changing my point of view, whereas before the lowest it would ever get was around 20 frames, and that was only during times when there was a ridiculous amount of stuff happening on the screen like during world boss events. I've reseated the GPU several times, ran antivirus, checked my fans are running etc but I can't seem to find the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Excessive lag while gaming after cleaning case
- Thread starter Lilster
- Start date
Just installed and ran HWMonitor, and here are the results for my CPU:
Processor 1 ID = 0
Number of cores 4 (max 4)
Number of threads 8 (max 8)
Name Intel Core i7 3770
Codename Ivy Bridge
Specification Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Package (platform ID) Socket 1155 LGA (0x1)
CPUID 6.A.9
Extended CPUID 6.3A
Core Stepping E1/L1
Technology 22 nm
TDP Limit 77.0 Watts
Tjmax 105.0 °C
Core Speed 3900.0 MHz
Multiplier x Bus Speed 39.0 x 100.0 MHz
Stock frequency 3400 MHz
Instructions sets MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, EM64T, VT-x, AES, AVX
L1 Data cache 4 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L1 Instruction cache 4 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L2 cache 4 x 256 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L3 cache 8 MBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size
FID/VID Control yes
Turbo Mode supported, enabled
Max non-turbo ratio 34x
Max turbo ratio 39x
Max efficiency ratio 16x
Min Power 60 Watts
O/C bins +4
Ratio 1 core 39x
Ratio 2 cores 39x
Ratio 3 cores 38x
Ratio 4 cores 37x
TSC 3400.0 MHz
APERF 3900.0 MHz
MPERF 3348.0 MHz
Temperature 0 65 degC (149 degF) (Core #0)
Temperature 1 64 degC (147 degF) (Core #1)
Temperature 2 67 degC (152 degF) (Core #2)
Temperature 3 62 degC (143 degF) (Core #3)
Temperature 4 67 degC (152 degF) (Package)
Voltage 0 1.10 Volts (VID)
Power 0 11.81 W (Package)
Power 1 5.26 W (IA Cores)
Power 2 n.a. (GT)
Power 3 6.55 W (Uncore)
Clock Speed 0 3899.98 MHz (Core #0)
Clock Speed 1 3799.98 MHz (Core #1)
Clock Speed 2 1599.99 MHz (Core #2)
Clock Speed 3 1599.99 MHz (Core #3)
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