Recent content by Ian neal

Alright, Thanks for the advice. I'll get to work on the RAM ASAP. Also I wasn't aware that the audio drivers could severely affect performance issues that is super good to know. And yeah I updated the BIOS version, I wasn't aware of chipset drivers for the motherboard.

However, I just realized that I didn't update my LAN / Ethernet drivers. Could that be causeing performance issues like that?

Alright, so I went ahead and updated the motherboard with no issues. But when it comes to the clean install of the graphics card drivers I had a ton of issues. I had two back to back bluescreens of death with separate stop codes. The first one was " irql not less or equal "and the second one was...

Here's one of those benchmarks for reference.

Oh, that's really helpful. I was starting to wonder if that was the issue with performance. Would you mind pointing me in a general direction for troubleshooting the performance issues? I've done lots of benchmarks and none of them are really helpful.

DISCLAIMER: I'm new to building PCs so forgive me for my ignorance. I am trying to learn as I go along. So I recently re-installed windows 10 after having issues getting my OS to boot. I reinstalled windows 10 via USB (Windows media creation tool ) and I've only been able to get it to boot...