Built my new near £700 PC, works perfectly for everything but can't run games at all.

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(Specs below) I built my new PC for the first time yesterday with a friend and it came together perfectly, first time success. OS and drivers were installed flawlessly, yet today when I try out games (Skyrim and Dota, the only games I really play atm) it's performance is terrible. The games downloaded incredibly quickly yet I have Dota on the lowest settings and the menu is lagging horribly, it's literally unplayable. On Skyrim I can hardly navigate the menu it's so bad. Can anyone help me out and tell me what the problem is? I've been so eager to play on my new PC and this is crushing that it's not working.

Thanks in advance for all help and advice :)

SPECS:

Corsair CC-9011075-WW Carbide Series 100R Windowed Mid-Tower ATX Computer Case - Black
MSI B150 M Mortar Socket LGA1151 Max 64 GB mATX Motherboard
Crucial 8GB DDR4 2133 MT/s (PC4-17000) SR x8 DIMM 288-Pin - CT8G4DFS8213
Kingston SSD A400 Solid State Drive 2.5 inch SATA 3 - 120 GB
WD Blue 1TB Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch
LiteOn IHAS124-14 24x SATA Internal DVD-RW
Intel i5 6400 Skylake 2.7GHz Quad Core 1151 Socket Processor
MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 GAMING X 2G 2 GB GDDR5 128 Bit Memory HDMI/DP/DVI PCI Express 3 Graphics Card - Black

PC Part Picker said there were no compatibility errors at all, and as mentioned earlier, it performs perfectly in every regard apart from running games.

 
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Karadjgne
1. Wait for windows to fully update, can take a week if you keep playing games since it'll only update when it decides the pc is idle, but if there's cores not doing anything, it's idle. So game performance sufferers.
2. Bios update. It's a skylake cpu/mobo. There's been several revisions to the bios as bugs were eventually found and patched according to vendor firmware additions.
3. Mobo drivers, especially audio and Lan need to be the latest possible. Windows10 Creators has issues with older audio/lan drivers date codes, version numbers etc and replaces them with windows generic drivers, which have newer date codes etc. Side affect is the audio/lan drivers are specific for the mobo, so conflict with windows generic. This kills fps as...
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Just to make sure, you plug in the 6 pin pcie power from the power supply to the GTX 1050?
You have connected the monitor directly to the GTX 1050's display ports.
You have installed the latest Nvidia driver from their driver website?
What settings the games are set to?
 
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What OS?
For freshly installed windows 7 there are known problems with windows update.
Also for freshly installed windows 10 it may take some time until windows updates itself completely. During this time performance of pc will suffer.

 
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1. Wait for windows to fully update, can take a week if you keep playing games since it'll only update when it decides the pc is idle, but if there's cores not doing anything, it's idle. So game performance sufferers.
2. Bios update. It's a skylake cpu/mobo. There's been several revisions to the bios as bugs were eventually found and patched according to vendor firmware additions.
3. Mobo drivers, especially audio and Lan need to be the latest possible. Windows10 Creators has issues with older audio/lan drivers date codes, version numbers etc and replaces them with windows generic drivers, which have newer date codes etc. Side affect is the audio/lan drivers are specific for the mobo, so conflict with windows generic. This kills fps as those drivers start looping. Can cause crashes of games, bad performance etc.
4. Use CCleaner from piriform.com. Clean out all the junk leftover from installation of OS, software etc. Also clean the registry (under tools tab) as there will be a ton of orphaned files also leftover from OS installation, which are nothing but dead end directions the cpu is still tracing. It's doing a ton of work for nothing.

Then play.
 
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