Good PC became slow and unresponsive

preslav.bachvarov · Mar 30, 2018

Heyy forum! So I have this pretty high-end PC I've had since 2015 and only recently it seems to be giving up.

Whenever I try to do any tasks that requires some more power, my PC seems to struggle and everything slows way down. Because of this I can barely do two tasks at the same time and I can't play any games I was able to before.

My specs are:

Windows 10 Home x64

Motherboard: MSI B150M Night Elf

Processor: Intel Core I7-6700 (Overclocked)

Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 (Overclocked)

RAM: 16 GBs

Storage:

Kingston 120 GBs SSD (SV300S37A120G)

SeaGate 465 GBs HDD (ST500LT012-1DG142)

Western Digital 1 TB HDD (WDC WD10EZEX-60ZF5A0)

Task manager shows no high usage on anything, CPU, Memory, Disk, GPU is all below 20% unless I'm running a game. But I do see a random 100% spike in the GPU 3D Performance Window.

Cleaned up the dust inside and changed the thermal paste, still the same. I have freshly reinstalled from a USB and completely cleaned and optimized the drives. Stress tested the CPU, GPU, Memory and HDDs by their respective software, all gave me no problems detected. Everything passed.

I really don't know where the problem lies, since everything seems to be okay. Thought it might be a failing HDD but tests turned out fine, thought it might be Processor or Memory but again, tests turned out fine.

The only thing I'm not sure about is when I reinstalled, it showed me 2 other drives, which were using a small amount of space, one was for Windows Backup I think, I don't remember what the other one was about.

Could some malware have crawled into those backup storage spaces and is tearing me apart, Lisa?

I will show my HWMonitor stuff too:

Maybe temperatures are too high?

Appreciate all the help you can give!

gosubuilder · Mar 30, 2018

preslav.bachvarov :

Heyy forum! So I have this pretty high-end PC I've had since 2015 and only recently it seems to be giving up.

Whenever I try to do any tasks that requires some more power, my PC seems to struggle and everything slows way down. Because of this I can barely do two tasks at the same time and I can't play any games I was able to before.

My specs are:

Windows 10 Home x64

Motherboard: MSI B150M Night Elf

Processor: Intel Core I7-6700 (Overclocked)

Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 (Overclocked)

RAM: 16 GBs

Storage:

Kingston 120 GBs SSD (SV300S37A120G)

SeaGate 465 GBs HDD (ST500LT012-1DG142)

Western Digital 1 TB HDD (WDC WD10EZEX-60ZF5A0)

Task manager shows no high usage on anything, CPU, Memory, Disk, GPU is all below 20% unless I'm running a game. But I do see a random 100% spike in the GPU 3D Performance Window.

Cleaned up the dust inside and changed the thermal paste, still the same. I have freshly reinstalled from a USB and completely cleaned and optimized the drives. Stress tested the CPU, GPU, Memory and HDDs by their respective software, all gave me no problems detected. Everything passed.

I really don't know where the problem lies, since everything seems to be okay. Thought it might be a failing HDD but tests turned out fine, thought it might be Processor or Memory but again, tests turned out fine.

The only thing I'm not sure about is when I reinstalled, it showed me 2 other drives, which were using a small amount of space, one was for Windows Backup I think, I don't remember what the other one was about.

Could some malware have crawled into those backup storage spaces and is tearing me apart, Lisa?

I will show my HWMonitor stuff too:

Maybe temperatures are too high?

Appreciate all the help you can give!

surprised the pc isnt shutting down... i believe the cpu temps are too high.

coozie7 · Mar 30, 2018

I'm surprised it's not shutting down as well, those CPU temperatures are way over anything safe.

One point, the readouts show only 2 fans: CPU fan at about 2700RPM and a case fan at a very, very slow 330 RPM it may just be an almost total lack of airflow causing this, try increasing the case intake fan speed first.

What CPU cooler is installed?
If it's an air cooler it is probably just not fully seated, remove and reseat it, paying very close attention to the mounting screws and standoffs and don't use too much TIM, too much is as bad as too little.
If it's an AIO check the pump is working and correctly mounted.

preslav.bachvarov · Mar 30, 2018

coozie7 :

Yeah you were right, my dude, I have an AIO 140 and it doesn't seem to be working properly, so will have to get that fixed. Thanks for the help

coozie7 · Mar 30, 2018

If the AIO is still under warranty it's time to begin the RMA process and if you've lost the receipt/invoice check your bank statements, E-mails or customer account records for date of purchase proofs to back up your claim.
In the meantime you'll probably want to source a replacement cooler, if you still have the Intel boxed item, just return the CPU to stock for now and use that while the RMA is under way, if not coolers like the Hyper 212 and Cryorig H7 aren't very expensive and pretty universal and may be able to handle the CPU with its current OC unaffected, but do check the temperatures before loading it up for real!

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