Ok so my pc is dying FAST

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Everyday there is a new problem first it was not being able to look at my own videos on my pc in full screen without it having 2 fps then Steam would download really slowly and now steam literally wont start a download no matter what i do changed region and deleted download cache tested beta version and i just can't take it anymore.

My pc is 2 Y/O
2X980 one is from 2 years ago and the other one is fairly new only about a year old
i7 4790k 2y/o
and some storage i'm using ethernet
 
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James Mason
although... before doing an entire reinstall of windows, this is a simpler way to maybe fix a performance issue, but it may do nothing:

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run...
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Can you get us cpu load usage, GPU load usage, and Ram usage numbers? What are you using for system drive and storage(SSDs? HDDs?)?
What sort of system maintenance do you do on your computer? How do you remove programs? Do you ever clean up your Registry?
 
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it's just that i have tried several virus programs free or paid nothing works
 
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my usage is really low but when i play it goes up to max 50-75%

and i have windows and some other small programs on my ssd and all my games and videos on a hdd.
and by deleting registry i really don't know what you mean
 
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This is why I asked about system maintenance. I don't think you have a hardware issue, I think it's software, as does Mason.
 
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although... before doing an entire reinstall of windows, this is a simpler way to maybe fix a performance issue, but it may do nothing:

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes up, if it hasn't selected your GPU manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD/Intel) then choose it from the drop down list
Press the Clean and Restart option
If a window comes up asking to disable the Windows automatic installation of display drivers click yes.

After (or before removing the old drivers, just put the new ones on the desktop or somewhere handy) rebooting back into Windows, manually download the latest drivers from Nvidia or AMD, don't use auto detect, choose you GPU model and OS from the drop down lists.
Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
Intel: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html


but the steam not downloading thing makes me doubt it's your GPU drivers.
 
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Unless someone was really intent on destroying their current Windows install, I'd never suggest deleting the registry, but I would suggest cleaning it. The registry gets larded up over time with useless entries from all installs and uninstalls, unless cleaned up.
Before doing a clean install of Windows, I'd suggest cleaning the registry, cleaning up your boot process(getting rid of all unnecessary programs with a secure uninstall process, some like revo-unistaller can be very useful for that). Once you've done these things, then move on to refreshing your drivers.
 
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