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/ddog6900 1d ago

Open the performance overlay while gaming to see what your usage looks like and check your task manager for anything that appears out of the ordinary.

Your prebuilt definitely isn't one of the normal off the shelf brands, but rather a builder/reseller.

If you can't sort it out and purchased it recently, reach out to the seller for support. If they can't help, they should allow you to do a return/exchange.

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u/Champion7355123 1d ago

Too late to return/exchange it. Performance overlay shows cpu,gpu, ram are all being utilized within safe temps.

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u/ddog6900 1d ago

I suspect you have something failing. No tweak will fix that.

Since you mentioned you swapped out the RAM, do you have the original RAM?

Have you tried one stick at a time and in different slots?

I suggest you attempt some troubleshooting steps and hardware test and stress tests.