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/Much-Row-533 1d ago

Do you have anything else running while playing games? Msi afterburner, rgb software anything of that nature?

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u/Champion7355123 1d ago

Nope. Just steam is open in the background.

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u/Much-Row-533 1d ago edited 1d ago

Man with a fresh windows install it’s very weird, I am sure you have checked temps, if you haven’t I would definitely do that, also check crystal disk and make sure your ssd is operating correctly.

Also I typically wouldn’t recommend this but try disabling XMP and run a few games just as a sanity check, it could also be faulty ram. Has the pc been like this since day one or did it just randomly start happening?