- Feb 11, 2018
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(Specs below post) So recently I've come across an issue and I'm absolutely and utterly stumped.
I've had the computer since last year and it's worked fine to do everything I need it to do until recently. Before my issues I was able to play a game (Like The Crew on High), stream in 720p for a friend or two, play music (also in 720p), AND have a video call on Discord. There were no issues up until recently.
It started a few days ago when I was doing my normal thing, started streaming for a friend, playing a game, listening to music. (No video call) When I noticed the game would freeze for half of a second, but recover and resume for a little while before happening again. It'd do this irregularly and sporadically, but I kind of shrugged it off at first.
It wasn't until I switched to playing WoW that I noticed the load times were SIGNIFICANTLY worst. Atleast 2, if not 3 times slower than normal, which raised a few red flags for me. The first thing I thought was that my HDD was eating dirt, but after trying everything that I can think of, nothing's helped. I did a virus scan to no results whatsoever (Avast, incase that matters much to anyone), and tried to clear up space and defragment the HDD. Nothing helped so I resorted to a reformat in the hopes a clean slate would fix it. Nothing.
I then assumed it was potentially a CPU issue, so I removed the CPU to check and see if I'd maybe applied the thermal paste wrong the last time I did. I found that it was a very, very thing layer from what I remember applying. So I immediately thought, "Heat issue". I'm still not certain it isn't. I noticed one of my fans was installed backwards, which was just a simple mistake on my part, so I switched it around for better airflow through the case. I turned it back on and got a heat monitoring program to run some tests. I also grabbed CCleaner just in case, and went through everything on there.
The program I'd grabbed made me notice something kind of strange that I'd never seen before. The first red flag was that the CPU was running anywhere from 50C-59C, but under a heavy load at a 4.1 clock that doesn't seem too far out there for me. The strange thing, however, was that I noticed the CPU max out at 100% while doing about half of the things I do normally. Simply streaming a game (The Crew, Medium settings, 720p, 2500kb/s) was maxing my load.
The things that confuse me:
Loading up WoW, watching a video on youtube (On chrome) the load times are still significantly slower.
CPU being 100% taxed for something that normally was fine.
I've tried google but it's just too specific of an issue and I'm too impatient to weed through the results.
Specs:
Win 10 pro x64
i5-3570K @ 4.1GHz clock
GTX 760
750W PSU (Don't know the brand, will check if needed)
Unknown Mobo (I didn't make the initial build, a friend gave me the PC)
16gb Corsair RAM (Don't know which specific kind. Nothing fancy, just generic looking RAM.) (Was initially 32gb RAM, removed 16 because I didn't need it.)
If anyone needs anymore information I'll gladly post it. I'm here to get help, after all.
I've had the computer since last year and it's worked fine to do everything I need it to do until recently. Before my issues I was able to play a game (Like The Crew on High), stream in 720p for a friend or two, play music (also in 720p), AND have a video call on Discord. There were no issues up until recently.
It started a few days ago when I was doing my normal thing, started streaming for a friend, playing a game, listening to music. (No video call) When I noticed the game would freeze for half of a second, but recover and resume for a little while before happening again. It'd do this irregularly and sporadically, but I kind of shrugged it off at first.
It wasn't until I switched to playing WoW that I noticed the load times were SIGNIFICANTLY worst. Atleast 2, if not 3 times slower than normal, which raised a few red flags for me. The first thing I thought was that my HDD was eating dirt, but after trying everything that I can think of, nothing's helped. I did a virus scan to no results whatsoever (Avast, incase that matters much to anyone), and tried to clear up space and defragment the HDD. Nothing helped so I resorted to a reformat in the hopes a clean slate would fix it. Nothing.
I then assumed it was potentially a CPU issue, so I removed the CPU to check and see if I'd maybe applied the thermal paste wrong the last time I did. I found that it was a very, very thing layer from what I remember applying. So I immediately thought, "Heat issue". I'm still not certain it isn't. I noticed one of my fans was installed backwards, which was just a simple mistake on my part, so I switched it around for better airflow through the case. I turned it back on and got a heat monitoring program to run some tests. I also grabbed CCleaner just in case, and went through everything on there.
The program I'd grabbed made me notice something kind of strange that I'd never seen before. The first red flag was that the CPU was running anywhere from 50C-59C, but under a heavy load at a 4.1 clock that doesn't seem too far out there for me. The strange thing, however, was that I noticed the CPU max out at 100% while doing about half of the things I do normally. Simply streaming a game (The Crew, Medium settings, 720p, 2500kb/s) was maxing my load.
The things that confuse me:
Loading up WoW, watching a video on youtube (On chrome) the load times are still significantly slower.
CPU being 100% taxed for something that normally was fine.
I've tried google but it's just too specific of an issue and I'm too impatient to weed through the results.
Specs:
Win 10 pro x64
i5-3570K @ 4.1GHz clock
GTX 760
750W PSU (Don't know the brand, will check if needed)
Unknown Mobo (I didn't make the initial build, a friend gave me the PC)
16gb Corsair RAM (Don't know which specific kind. Nothing fancy, just generic looking RAM.) (Was initially 32gb RAM, removed 16 because I didn't need it.)
If anyone needs anymore information I'll gladly post it. I'm here to get help, after all.
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