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Hello.
I ran a few benchmarks for the past 2 days and it seems that my pc is underperforming, compared to the state it was when I built it (4 months ago).
The results of the latest benchmarks are here:

And the benchmarks of 4 months ago are here:
I update my drivers regularly (and my GPU ones with DDU) and I clean my PC every day or every 2-3 days. Recently, I had to unpark my CPUs, in order to improve the fps a game, but saw no difference. I can't think of anything else I've done that could've hurt the PC's performance, though.

You are my only hope, guys.

P.S.: I have Windows 10 updated to the latest patch and have "High Performance" power plan ticked.
 
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All of them have a lot of free space left. more than 20%
About GPU?
 
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There are two things that concern me a little,
The Adata SSD is running slow, is it on a SATA III port with a SATA III cable?
The GPU not clocking as high as other examples suggest it should. What temps is the GPU at?

Why are you 'cleaning' your PC every day, and what do you mean by 'cleaning'?
 
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Yur drives are major contributor to such results (overall). CPU, GPU and RAM are looking fine, but the Toshiba HDD and Adata SSD are performing "way below expectations".

SSD looks good in everything except sequential performance - the benchmark correctly indicates that you might be using this SSD on a SATA 2 port instead of SATA 3. Double check that you are using a proper SATA port for your SSD. In practice it won't matter much in most cases, but benchmarks will show reduced performance.

As for the Toshiba, a mechanical HDD, try defragmenting the drive. It could help with performance.

All that being said, all this won't affect gaming performance at all - except when loading levels :)
 
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Given that the Tosh is a 320GB 2.5inch 5400rpm drive it will be slow (and old), as you say defragging might help (but he cleans it every day) but 10% faster than dog slow is still dog slow.
 
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Yes it's on a SATA III port wit ha SATA III cable.
By "cleaning", I mean defrags, cache cleaning etc. Basically, I use CCleaner and Smart Defrag and let them do the work.
 
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About the Toshiba one: yes it's really old. I salvaged it from my old laptop and I plan on changing it wit ha 250 GB SSD one.
 
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There is no need to do that on a daily basis, never ever defrag an SSD, they don't need it, literally the concept of fragmentation does not apply to an SSD.

Do that kind of stuff once a month or thereabouts, personally I probably do it yearly if I remember (which I don't).
 
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Smart Defrag doesn't defrag the SSD. It just TRIMs it.
Ok got it, I will do it less frequently from now on. Still the issue remains. What could I do about the performance now? Anything you tech-savvier guys can tell me?
 
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All the cleaning might be leaving a lot of garbage collection to be done, leave it for a good while doing nothing. Crucial advised me to unplug the data cable and leave power only so it wouldn't stop garbage collection when there was a request from the OS, which for a system disk is quite often. But that was an old model, are adata recycling old tech?
 
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Sadly, I don't know if ADATA recycles old tech. I've been wondering if a fresh install of pretty much everything would fix the issue (even though it will be a total pain restoring everything to the current state)
 
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that would be the last resort, it's always the last resort and it is unlikely to be a software issue. Let it do garbage collection with the machine just switched on but you doing nothing, it might take 10mins to trigger it starting, so leave it for a good few hours. (this is not quite a long shot, but is by no means guaranteed, but it is safe, easy and quickish).
 
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So, I just leave it for a couple hours on without doing anything? Should I exit any running applications too?
 
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yep, preferably nothing running, normally it might not take too long, but you might have a lot of garbage. Especially from lots of little files as each one will take up a page (or they used to with early SSD's). In my instance it caused by SSD to 100% utilisation doing nothing, and the machine would eventually lock up, it could have been slower prior to this state. It would be even better if you switch off, remove the data cable, switch on and just let it sit in bios so that nothing can attempt to use it.
 
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After switching ports, updating the BIOS to the latest version and restarting Windows, the results are the same. The PC still underperforms and I still haven't found out why...
 
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