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My bios is showing the cpu at 0.80 GHz while this is going on. Again, the problem comes and goes for hours at a time. http://imgur.com/a/SsXcM Also, my case fan controller shorted about 8 months ago. Saw a flash and smelled burning. A few of the ports on it no longer work but everything else...

Another Update: After a month of everything performing perfectly, it just started happening again. Exact same problem as before, everything slowing down to a crawl. This is still using the old SSD I installed. Benchmarks: http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/4503715 Does anyone have any...

Update: I installed Windows to an old SSD I took from my last PC and everything has worked perfectly for almost a week now. Thank you to all who suggested hard drive failure, it appears you were correct. Currently waiting on Samsung to reply to warranty ticket. Sorry this was posted in the CPU...

UPDATE: I did a fresh Windows install and same thing is happening. Extremely low benchmarks all around leading me to believe this is either CPU, SSD, or MOBO. A few have suggested SSD failure but would that make everything slow down as much as it has. Even the windows install and reboots...

Rakanyshu - Power mode is set to high performance. Supahos - I've run malwarebytes, avast, and ccleaner with nothing detected. The 850 Evo performs fine when the problem is not occurring. CPU is staying below 50c during load. James - Using a Cryorig H7

My i7-6700k is slowing to a crawl for hours at a time. Sometimes it happens immediately upon startup and sometimes it takes a few hours but then it lasts for hours at a time. It's causing huge fps drops, making opening programs and performing any kind task in them incredibly slow, and even...