Desktop running extremely slowly on powerful PC

Dangerous_Dave

Dangerous_Dave

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Hi all,

I'm having some trouble with my main gaming PC, which is a 2500K @ 4.4GHZ; 290X @ 1.1GHz; 32GB RAM; Windows 7 Pro. The desktop is failing to reach even 60FPS, and is giving me warnings to turn down Windows effects. Minecraft is also running extremely slowly.

So I guess CPU problem?

Any ideas what to do?

Cheers
 
I tried downloading Samsung Magician but guess what .... the bloody thing doesn't work!! Just says 'detecting information' and then goes to a blank screen of nothing. Why does nothing work on PCs?

(by the way, I am running Samsung 850 EVO SSDs in RAID 0)
 
To check your disks I'd see what resource monitor is saying. Have a look at what the disk activity is like, if the response time or queue length are really large, despite low bytes/sec activity, it would suggest you have an issue with your storage.

From your symptoms however, I'd look for something not operating at its proper clock speed. Can you confirm that these are running at their proper speeds in Windows? CPU-Z/GPU-Z should do the trick. What are your GPU and CPU temperatures like? Are you getting any extra noise from your fans? I'm thinking along the lines of your CPU or GPU throttling down.
 
Ok I downloaded an older version of Samsung Magician that was programmed by a retard rather than a monkey, and it at least told me that I have a RAID array - but unfortunately couldn't manage to assess the health of the drives within that array.

After I ran the performance test, it told me that I should go to the OS Optimization tab - which was greyed out and couldn't be selected....................................
 
The temps are ok on both, but TBH the motherboard is kooky as hell. It likes to have fights with itself over the CPU clock speed being set in the BIOS and by the overclocking utility in Windows. As far as I know it's running at the stated clock speed but hard to be sure.
 
I stealthily edited my post :p

That's beginning to sound like something that could cause issues, see what CPU-Z says. It'll tell you what your CPU is doing at any given time, and if I recall correctly, can give you a nice log file to refer to after you've experienced the problem if it's intermittent.
 
Zefan said:
I stealthily edited my post :p

That's beginning to sound like something that could cause issues, see what CPU-Z says. It'll tell you what your CPU is doing at any given time, and if I recall correctly, can give you a nice log file to refer to after you've experienced the problem if it's intermittent.
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CPU-Z is reporting 4GHz (I backed it off just in case of instability). Strangely it's on 4GHz all the time, i.e. not clocking down under a light load. Having said that, the CPU is running 30% load even when i'm not doing anything.
 
Dangerous_Dave said:
CPU-Z is reporting 4GHz (I backed it off just in case of instability). Strangely it's on 4GHz all the time, i.e. not clocking down under a light load. Having said that, the CPU is running 30% load even when i'm not doing anything.
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Did you install anything before this started happening (including windows update). Perhaps try rolling those back / doing a system restore.

Try doing a virus scan - it's possible something hiding in the background is doing something like bitcoin mining.

I'd also turn off the overclocking utility but keeping the BIOS OC to see if that has an effect. Then I'd try running the CPU at stock from the bios too.

It may also be worth just reseating any pci-e devices you have. I.e. remove them from the PC, boot, shut down, plug them back in, boot. I have no idea why this would make any difference but it has solved seemingly random instability I have had in the past.
 
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