After I returned my Graphics Card, Entire System Slow/Stuttering in Games

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I have an nVidia GTX 1070 8GB that I purchased online, through newegg. I purchased it the year before around Feb. (2016). Last year, around xmas time, it started shitting the bed completely--BSOD, Driver and hardware failures, overheating, etc. Even though I never overclocked it and kept it as clean as possible.

Around late December 2017, I sent it back to Gigabyte for an RMA. After about a month and a half, they sent it(?) back. I installed it, and it seemed to run ok, but my system was a bit slower for it. I got it back around late January/early February this year. When I would run games, I noticed that my system was suddenly loud as fuck with all the fans, but I figured that was what was wrong with the card, and they fixed the fans.

However, ever since then, my computer has gotten slower and more stuttery with every passing week. I don't think this should be happening, but I'm not entirely convinced it's the GPU that I RMA'd.

My system is as follows:

Windows 7 64-bit
AMD A8-6600k APU @ 3.90 GHz (Which seems lower than it should be, should be 4.2?)
32 GB Ballistix DDR3 RAM
nVidia Geforce GTX 1070 @ 8GB GDDR5
1 TB SATA SSD (Intel Mftr)
2 TB SATA HDD Backup
500 GB SATA HDD Former Primary, now Backup
700W Corsair PSU (Not sure of the model)

Hopefully someone can help me find an answer to what exactly is happening with my system. I'm gunna try disconnecting some things and see if that helps, in the meantime. Thank you in advance to anyone who replies.
 
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Google them .. Crystal Disk Info is a small program. You just run it and it automatically checks hard drives and SSD's for errors and health of the drives. If a drive has a ton of errors it will indicate it with a Yellow or Red color. That could mean a drive is close to dying or overheating. It would be wise to back up important data of that drive.

MSI after burner is a must have program for Nvidia GPU's. You can use it as a OSD in game to check everything from Fan Speed, GPU Usage, Frame Times (related to stutter), CPU usage etc.. You can also create a Fan Profile in order to override the GPU and control the fan speeds at certain temperatures.

I have mine set to 35% fan speed at idle. 50% fan speed at 60 degrees. 60% fan speed at 70...
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I would reinstall Windows to rule out any new software conflicts. I would just run the games nothing in the background to rule that out also.

Check CPU in task manager while running the games and see if anything is hogging up the CPU usage. It could be something utilizing your CPU like malware for cypto mining. or simply because your running a browser with too many tabs or streaming netflix or whatever. If something is using up all your CPU then your games are going to stutter and hitch because of it.

Once you rule that out then you could look at barrowing a GPU to rule out the RMA'd GPU.

Make sure the clocks and everything are behaving normally. Set a Fan Profile with MSI after burner so the fans don't run erratically. If nothing works then it's likely that the RMA GPU is borked.

Another thing that can cause stuttering is a dying hard drive. Run Crystal Disk Info to check on the health of the drives.
 
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I have run games without anything else unnecessary running in the background, and I still run into problems. It's slightly better, but still considerably slower than it once was. I have checked Task Manager, and nothing seems to be running too hot on my system that I can see, when I close out of everything. I am going to check for malware/virii probably sometime today and see if that's the issue. I'm also going to see if my friend will let me borrow his GPU for a couple hours and see if that's the issue.

You mentioned MSI Afterburner and Crystal Disk Info, i do not know where to get those or how to utilize them effectively. Could you help me with that?
Otherwise I will report back when I've scanned for malware and borrowed a friend's GPU
 
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Google them .. Crystal Disk Info is a small program. You just run it and it automatically checks hard drives and SSD's for errors and health of the drives. If a drive has a ton of errors it will indicate it with a Yellow or Red color. That could mean a drive is close to dying or overheating. It would be wise to back up important data of that drive.

MSI after burner is a must have program for Nvidia GPU's. You can use it as a OSD in game to check everything from Fan Speed, GPU Usage, Frame Times (related to stutter), CPU usage etc.. You can also create a Fan Profile in order to override the GPU and control the fan speeds at certain temperatures.

I have mine set to 35% fan speed at idle. 50% fan speed at 60 degrees. 60% fan speed at 70 degrees. It works great and you'll have complete control of the GPU fan.

There's tons of videos on Youtube on how to set these up.

If none of that helps reinstalling the OS is the best option to rule out any rouge settings or program that could possibly be causing the system to stutter. Try to run the games on a clean system just the GPU drivers that way you know it's not conflicting software or malware. You could make a partition and install the OS there for testing incase you don't want to lose your current install.

I think AMD released exploit patches for it's CPU'a recently. Around that time frame you started experiencing slow downs. I would read up on it and see if your affected by it. https://www.cnet.com/news/amd-spectre-affects-processors-chips-intel-arm/
 
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