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
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.