Nagging issues, upgrade required?

[fruman23]

Morning folks,


I'm currently mid upgrade process, i'm still rocking my i5 2500k, and i've just upgraded to a 1070, gaming isn't an issue, but i still feel my system is laggy in general, which is odd, for instance installing games from a dvd, my system comes to a standstill, and if i'm listening to music, that becomes distorted etc, which makes me think me ram might be on the way out, though i've tried memtest and all seems good.

i do get the occasional stutter with gaming but i'm not sure if they're all related or not.

any ideas?
Cheers!

 

[Narj]

Re: windows lagginess, I've also had this in the past and found that some USB peripherals tend to make the PC lag or lock up occasionally. My T2UH is a prime example. Wish I'd stayed with Windows 7.

You might find your problems are a driver issue - sound distorting or breaking up sounds like something interrupt-related? Do you have an Asus card?

Interested to see what kind of gains you saw with the 1070 as I'm about to do the same thing (although maybe 1080).

 

[fruman23]

I'm on holiday from tomorrow night so I plan on going through everything with a fine tooth comb, it's an MSI card I'm using, went from an r9 280x to the 1070 so the difference was incredible, had a shot of gears remastered at 4K and it looks stunning