After rooting around and rearranging the computers guts I can happily confirm that this was the solution. Both SSD drives are performing well above average in benchmark tests now and everything is booting and loading noticeably faster. Thank you so much!
This is it. This is very likely the answer. It's my own fault, as usual. I know from looking in the BIOS yesterday that the SSD drives are in A1 and A2. I remember when I built this thing that I simply plugged the drives into the MB in order starting with the first available port, because I...
This is the only PC I have access to unfortunately. It's not every game I play, but sometimes I get microstutters when running to new areas or coming out of a loading screen, and sometimes I see objects and textures pop in way closer than I feel they should, or they remain low detail closer or...
I recently benchmarked my PC to see how it's holding up now that its a few years old. Everything is performing as expected except for my SSDs, which are both vastly underperforming at nearly identical rates to each other. I googled a few remedies to try, like clearing out some space so the drive...
I was noticing some weird glitches with my old motherboard and CPU, so I decided "what the heck" and upgraded them both. The problem is, now only half my RAM is working. I've done everything I can think of to remedy the issue: switched the sticks around, tried the 2 slots instead of the 1 slots...