Help with gaming PC

[ghostguitar]

I purchased a gaming PC a few months ago, and yesterday it randomly started playing really slow. I would average at around 200-400 FPS in league of legends on max settings, and I was at 30 or below FPS yesterday. I ran a full system virus scan, and restarted it. It is a little better today, up to around 70-150 FPS in league, but I am worried that something is wrong with my computer. It is still fast to boot up, but once it starts gaming, it is slow.

Specs:
CPU: i7-4790
GPU: GTX Titan X
RAM: 32GB
HDD: 2TB
SSD:250GB
OS: WIndows 7

 

[DonkeyOatie]

I would be downloading a lot of test an monitoring software so that I could check on temperatures, voltages, and clock-speeds.

OCCT, HWMonitor, CPU-Z, Memtest86 are some of the things I would be using (and I do). What software do you have to monitor the GPU?

 

[ghostguitar]

I use MSI command center to monitor all that. My computer never really gets hot.

 

[DonkeyOatie]

It's not the computer, but if the CPU cooler has lost efficiency, your CPU temps or core temps might be causing throttling; same with the GPU. It's all about limiting possibilities. Here are so many of them.

When a computer slows under heavy load, thermal issues are some of the first things to check for or eliminate.

 

[ghostguitar]

With nothing running in the background, my CPU runs at about 30 C

 

[DonkeyOatie]

That's fine. It's under sustained load that we need to see how things are behaving.

 

[ghostguitar]

On BF4 max settings, I normally run at about 100 FPS, with CPU at around 40-50 C, and CPU usage at around 80%. That was the last game I played before my PC slowed down.

 

[DonkeyOatie]

What you needs is to download something like OCCT. It's free. Run it on your system and see what the core temps are. Because of the problems with your applications/games, you need to run test software.

Have you loaded any new drivers or OS updates recently?