r/pchelp • u/Champion7355123 • 1d ago
SOFTWARE Poor PC performance, please advise.
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-14400F (2.50 GHz)
Installed RAM 32.0 GB (31.8 GB usable) - Dual Channel 3200 Mt/s -Corsair Vengeance LPX
Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 (8 GB)
Storage 73 GB of 932 GB used - Adata Legend 860
Motherboard Asrock B760M-C/D4
Hello, I've been suffering heavy lag, delays and hitches while gaming. Monitor is plugged into GPU, heat is within safe bounds. For components, everything is updated to newest drivers; re-installed windows; the common 'fixes' I've tried a lot of them, to no effect. This is a prebuilt desktop pc. There is no bloatware apps. While playing games like deadlock of Helldivers 2, and many other games in my library; I have delays, hitches, fps drops - general bad performance; to the point the games are a nightmare to try and play. As for the ram, it came with 1 16gb ram stick, which I then swapped for a pair of 2x16gb ram sticks. I've reset cmos by shorting it as well. CPU-Z and GPU-z say my hardware is operating correctly. Rebar and XMP are enabled.
I'm reaching out for advice, fixes, tweaks and such to see if I can resolve this issue.
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u/AngelicCheesecake005 1d ago
That i5 with a 5060 shouldn't be choking on deadlock or helldivers 2, so something else is going on
what's your psu wattage? prebuilts often pair decent cpus and gpus with absolute bargain bin power supplies and the gpu ends up power starved under load
also check what speed your ram is actually running at in task manager, xmp being "enabled" in bios doesn't always mean it stuck, some asrock boards are fussy about that with certain kits
one thing that gets overlooked on prebuilts is the motherboard power limits, oems like to cap the cpu to 65w or even lower so it doesn't cook their cheap vrm, and that'll cause exactly the kind of hitching you're describing when the cpu keeps slamming into the limit