I have a high spec computer however recently it has been running very slowly.

[Thomas_182]

I have an I7 4790K, GTX 970, MSI Z97 GAMING 5, WS BLACK SERIES HDD and 8GB DDR3 1600
Recently my computer has been running really slow and i don't understand why. It should not be as i have a high end PC. I have a feeling that its a GPU AND CPU problem. Can anyone help??

 

[Multipack]

Running slow how?

 

[swishvic]

Easy things to do are to clean it out, reinstall windows, or just getting the program cc cleaner to free up space

also, how long have you had it

 

[Thomas_182]

Running slow how?

Easy things to do are to clean it out, reinstall windows, or just getting the program cc cleaner to free up space

also, how long have you had it

Ive had it since December 2015 so it still quite new.
If i reinstall windows will i lose all of my games and also would getting a ssd help

 

[Thomas_182]

Running slow how?

It is very stuttery and on games which I should be able to run, there is heavy fps lagg. Like GTA V. Also chrome is very slow laggy and I have cleared browsing history but there has been no change.

 

[Multipack]

There are a few issues with GTA V but if it was better before then that may not be your problem. Could be malware I guess, or a corrupt OS, but the fact is it could be a lot of things, even failing hardware. Its quite new though so doesnt seem likely. Is there anything with abnormal loads in Task Manager when it stutters, or errors in Event Viewer?

 

[Thomas_182]

There are a few issues with GTA V but if it was better before then that may not be your problem. Could be malware I guess, or a corrupt OS, but the fact is it could be a lot of things, even failing hardware. Its quite new though so doesnt seem likely. Is there anything with abnormal loads in Task Manager when it stutters, or errors in Event Viewer?

Under custom views on event viewer it says: administravtive events critical, error and warning events from all administrative logs.

 

[Multipack]

Open Custom Views and click on Administrative Events and you should see a list of system errors. What do they say? Especially the critical ones during the time when your PC has the problem.

 

[Thomas_182]

There are just a list of warnings and errors about apps being shutdown and apps not starting up, there are some critical message which are about the fact that the 'The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.'