Question Can too many rgb fans slow down the system?

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Hello there, yesterday I've swapped the stock 4 rgb fans, into a 4 pin 4 rgb pwm fans from deepcool and I when I booted the pc and started watching 4k youtube video , it seemed that for a second or two, the cpu and the audio became extremely laggy more like everything became superslow and then it disappeared, could that be because of some software or that I have too many fans connected into the cpu header? Cause, As I've read on mobo manual, it says that the Cpu header can support up to a 2A, and since I've connected 4 fans into the hub and into to the cpu header I was started to wonder if it could be the fans that would make the system slower than usual, the same is for the rgb leds as one rgb header supports up to 3A and I've daisy chained the rgb connectors.
 
Yeah, basically when I was running driver verifier it bsod two times, so the first time I didn't noticed the problem code because I was away, but the second time when I returned to the room, it showed "BUGCODE_NDIS_DRIVER" and the dump should have record it, and no, no BSODs at the moment.
 
Try different driver package for same adapter. Maybe earlier one. Suckers called manufacturers sometimes mix supported adapter drivers between driver version packages by reasons known only by them.

Update: Original source of Realtek network adapter drivers for Windows 11 is here. Thing called "Win11 Auto Installation Program". Uninstall existing network adapter driver before.

Rant: I believe that 2.5 Gbps Ethernet still came a bit too early. At least in many cases these adapter drivers still feel like manufacturers are using end users as beta testers for free. Also SOHO router support for 2.5 Gbps Ethernet is now basically nonexistent.
 
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Try different driver package for same adapter. Maybe earlier one. Suckers called manufacturers sometimes mix supported adapter drivers between driver version packages by reasons known only by them.

Update: Original source of Realtek network adapter drivers for Windows 11 is here. Thing called "Win11 Auto Installation Program". Uninstall existing network adapter driver before.

Rant: I believe that 2.5 Gbps Ethernet still came a bit too early. At least in many cases these adapter drivers still feel like manufacturers are using end users as beta testers for free. Also SOHO router support for 2.5 Gbps Ethernet is now basically nonexistent.

Out of topic, do you mean that Realtek's latest ethernet driver is bad because I just installed it few days ago, so should I uninstall it and let the Windows 10 handle the driver politics?
 
Out of topic, do you mean that Realtek's latest ethernet driver is bad because I just installed it few days ago, so should I uninstall it and let the Windows 10 handle the driver politics?

You should uninstall existing non-working driver and install different working one. Better one provided by adapter or motherboard manufacturers. In absence of manufacturer driver - one provided by Microsoft via Windows updates. Also I found it weird that motherboard manufacturer driver for Windows version you have fail with BSOD. Dunno about Windows 11 though - never used it.
 
An update, stuttering and other problems was more likely due to Windows 11 itself, since it will always launch at "selective startup" setting, despite you change anything or not, reset windows or not, it's definitely a bug in the windows, hope Microsoft would fix that.