Hi All - new member here, trying to determine the cause of my PC's intermittent lagginess. I'm no expert, but I've got a reasonable understanding of components, always put together my own PC's. Married with children, so not a lot of disposable income to spend on a new unit, and want to try and pinpoint my problem before wasting money replacing more parts. I've had this thing for a few years, and it's always worked fine performance-wise for an old PC (specs below). Recently while playing TF2, I started noticing what seemed like mouse lag, some choppiness here and there. Since the time this started, I've tried a number of steps as outline below, but it's just gotten worse. Yesterday when I tried to run TF2, along with the general mouse-lag, it minimized the game and jumped to the desktop when action got a little intense on-screen. Anybody else experience anything like this or have suggestions on things to try?
SPECS:
cpu: AMD FX-6300
m/b: MSI 970A-G43 Plus
gpu: GeForce GT 1030 2gb (was Radeon R7 240 2gb)
ram: 1x8gb DDR3 1600 (Patriot)
o/s: Win10 (was Win7)
psu: 500W Corsair
h/d 1: PNY 120gb SSD SATA
h/d 2: WD 750gb SATA
Steps Taken:
1 - replaced mouse (and updated mouse driver)
2 - ran virus scans on all drives
3 - cleaned case, re-applied cpu compound (dropped temps from ~74C at peak usage to ~60C)
4 - replaced graphics card
5 - upgraded O/S from Win7 to Win10 - started with keeping files and settings, updated again erasing all when that didn't change anything)
6 - checked/upgraded drivers for motherboard, mouse, video card after clean windows install
6 - moved ram stick to another slot
7 - moved mouse from a direct connection on the back of the m/b to a wired connection on the front panel of the PC - this seemed to help briefly, but issue persisted
SPECS:
cpu: AMD FX-6300
m/b: MSI 970A-G43 Plus
gpu: GeForce GT 1030 2gb (was Radeon R7 240 2gb)
ram: 1x8gb DDR3 1600 (Patriot)
o/s: Win10 (was Win7)
psu: 500W Corsair
h/d 1: PNY 120gb SSD SATA
h/d 2: WD 750gb SATA
Steps Taken:
1 - replaced mouse (and updated mouse driver)
2 - ran virus scans on all drives
3 - cleaned case, re-applied cpu compound (dropped temps from ~74C at peak usage to ~60C)
4 - replaced graphics card
5 - upgraded O/S from Win7 to Win10 - started with keeping files and settings, updated again erasing all when that didn't change anything)
6 - checked/upgraded drivers for motherboard, mouse, video card after clean windows install
6 - moved ram stick to another slot
7 - moved mouse from a direct connection on the back of the m/b to a wired connection on the front panel of the PC - this seemed to help briefly, but issue persisted