Upgraded PC - Very bad lag on boot; i9-9900k, 2080ti

adamg92

adamg92

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Hi.

I previous had a i7-7700k & 1080ti and decided to do an upgrade.

The only thing that is the same on this build is the 650w Gold 80 PSU (Corsair), the fans (RGB LL fans 8 in total) and 250GB WD Blue NVME.

  • KFA2 2080ti SG
  • i9-9900k @ 5ghz Overclocked
  • Asrock Taichi Ultimate
  • 1TB Samsung Evo
  • OS on 250GB WD Blue
1. When the computer has been off for a long time, ie when I go to work so 8+ hours and I come home, I boot it up and it boots to windows very quickly, however the mouse, keyboard and everything is freezing every 2 - 3 seconds and then unfreezing after about half a second. This continues for anywhere between 10 - 15 minutes before things normalise and I can play games at high FPS and the overclock works. This affects EVERYTHING. When I move the mouse, it freezes, when I open the start menu, it freezes, when I am watching a youtube video I get freezing and that weird distortion sound from the video. So if someone on the video is saying "Hi" it will end up like Freeze "HiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiIIIIIIIIIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiiiiI" and then back to normal for a few seconds.

2. I have tried rebooting the PC, and I thought at first that would fix it first time round - but it doesn't it takes anywhere between 10 - 15 minutes to get stable and useable.

3. The first time I noticed this was on first boot on the WD Blue (With my old OS). I thought it may just be the OS so I wiped and clean reinstall windows 10 pro twice.

4. Furthermore when this "Freezing" is happening and I try and open Geforce Experience, it comes up with a 0x0 error saying it cannot start and to restart the PC. When the "Freezing" has stopped, it opens it fine.

5. FPS wise I am getting 140+ in some areas on GTA5 with all settings maxed and 1440p. Rocket league (Obviously) 144FPS (I have a 144hz monitor). Other games like Ghost Recon Breakpoint I am getting NO lag at all, no artifacts no freezing ONCE the initial "Freezing" at the start of booting the PC stops.

6. I'm not entirely sure what it is, when I installed the 2080ti BEFORE upgrading the motherboard and CPU, none of this lag was happening.

I would appreciate any ideas. The only thing I notice on the motherboard is its a 12 pin (8 pin + 4 Pin) on the motherboard head. My PSU only had a 8 pin cable as the old motherboard only used 8 pin. From what I can see using 8 pin and 4 pin is not needed, its just optional. I may be wrong.

If someone could assist, please let me know!!!!

Thanks
 
I'm pretty sure you need the full motherboard header populated.
I'm not familiar with that board but on mine it provides power to the cpu.
 
General consensus is that you only need the 8-pin CPU power connected unless doing extreme overclocking (I mean liquid nitrogen here). That's become the accepted norm - don't ask people on a forum, check your motherboard manual.

It doesn't make sense that it would be lack of power to CPU because you're saying that the PC performs fine under load once it's been on a while. However I would still check your power requirements out - 650W might be right for 9900k overclocked and 2080 Ti, depending on the brand/model.

It sounds to me like you're having drive issues - you've even pointed out it happened with the old motherboard and CPU.

Firstly, open Task Manager on boot and see if anything is eating resources. If you have an antivirus maxing out your disk access every boot then that might be it. Even worse, multiple antivirus competing for control!

You might also find there's a conflict between some of your other software e.g. GeForce Experience and something like MSI Afterburner.
 
Was this a clean install of windows? If not the first thing I would try is to do a fresh install and see if the problems have gone. I would always do a clean install on upgrading the motherboard.
 
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