A little help please

Muzza1875

Muzza1875

Muzza1875

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Hello everyone

I recently completed my first ever build, prob just over two months ago.
Specs are as follows:

I7 950 (no overclock)
asus x58 sabre-tooth motherboard
corsair 750 watt psu
Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Triple Channel
antec 1200
akasa venom heat sink
asus 6950

Basically over the last few days i have noticed my computer being slow to respond at first i thought it was my browser as it seemed to only be happening when opening and closing Firefox or opening a new tab.
I reinstalled Firefox to see apps such as windows media player, steam, vlc, iTunes ect lag also.I click on a app and a few seconds later it will open, or i will try to minimize or expand an app and it will take a few seconds to respond.
I usually run c cleaner, disk cleanup, defragger, malware scan, antivirus scan,anti spyware scan and all that good stuff weekly so i have ruled those out as remedies.

I recently wiped allot of big applications from my OS like 3ds max and others but don't think that was the problem as it was happening before i done this,however it seems to have got worse since.
Does anybody have any ideas what my problem could be?Any help at all would be appreciated, i really don't wont to re install my OS to find out it wasn't the problem.
What is the chances it could be static damage from when i built the computer? I grounded myself properly and all that so i hope to god it isn't as that would be a total bummer.

Thanks again
 
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Are you running a HDD or an SSD?

Muzza1875 said:
Hello everyone

I recently completed my first ever build, prob just over two months ago.
Specs are as follows:

I7 950 (no overclock)
asus x58 sabre-tooth motherboard
corsair 750 watt psu
Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Triple Channel
antec 1200
akasa venom heat sink
anus 6950


Thanks again
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What's an anus 6950?
 
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SSDs shouldnt be defragged. Does your SSD support TRIM? If not then you NEEEEEED to run some garbage collection. Read speeds should still be fantastic though so there must be a problem elsewhere. How much RAM is being used in Task manager?
 
23JMZ07 said:
SSDs shouldnt be defragged. Does your SSD support TRIM? If not then you NEEEEEED to run some garbage collection. Read speeds should still be fantastic though so there must be a problem elsewhere. How much RAM is being used in Task manager?
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No, forgive my noobiness never heard of trim :(
Its at 20 % which i think is what its normally at when running iTunes and Firefox, CPU usage is between 2 and 13 percent which is a little higher then it used to be running those two apps.Reckon it could be a virus?When i run full scan on avast it never comes back with anything however it does say it could not scan some folders when it finishes.

cheers
 
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