Question High End PC Windows Slow and non-responsive

[davidgamer90]

Hi all, I have a very high end PC and all was well until I recently upgraded the CPU from a Ryzen 5 5600X to an Intel i9-12900K.

Rest of my specs are:
Gigabyte Z690 Gaming X
32GB (4x8GB) G.Skill RipJaws V red DDR4-3600 DIMM CL19-20-20-40
AMD 6800XT
Corsair CV750W

The problem is when gaming, EVERY single other program (e.g discord, web browser and the windows explorer) becomes very slow and laggy, sometimes even non-responsive, while the games I am playing are running completely fine with great performance.
Before I upgraded I never had this problem, and I have been scratching my head as to how an upgrade could slow down my performance.

I have tried reinstalling Windows 11 and also different drivers but nothing is working and I am slowly going insane from how slow everything gets when I open a game, since I have multiple monitors I need it to be as quick as it was before I upgraded.

Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? Could it maybe be a RAM issue?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks so much!

 

[Colif]

what storage drives do you have?

Have you checked their health?

 

[davidgamer90]

I have a 1TB M.2 model: 1TB Kingston SA2000M8/1000G

I had the same drive before the upgrade, and there was no problems like this. I did tests on it and there were no errors, so I highly doubt it to be a drive problem.
It performs perfect at all times, right now I am leaning more towards a motherboard issue / ram issue that's causing it. I have no other theories of what the problem could be, it's very strange and almost impossible to figure out.

 

[davidgamer90]

So the problem has been found, thanks to another forum on this website, see the title below.
While in game the GPU is constantly at 99/100% and he claims that a fresh install fixed the problem, although I have already tried this and it didn't work... any else have any ideas?


Unusually High GPU Usage 100%, on Menu's, Ingame (FIXED)

 

[RodroX]

So you had a working system with no issues with the R5 5600X.

Then you got a i9 12900K and issues started.

After that you made a clean install of Windows 11 + drivers and still have the same issues?


I would first go into the BIOS, disable the "E" cores of your 12900K and try again.



When you change motherboard + CPU always do a fresh, clean install of Windows.

 

[davidgamer90]

I fixed the problem, I opened task manager and saw my GPU at 99/100% even while the game was paused. I then browsed the internet and found out that I have to change my FPS settings from unlimited to capped at any setting and it worked, the GPU usage went down straight away and everything is back to normal.