I'm getting lag on my desktop?

[jecann]

My PC is:
http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c02679437/

I recently upgraded the video card to a RX480 and the Power Supply to EVGA 600. I also installed an SSD for my OS and moved my existing HDD to secondary hard drive for storage and large apps.

I'm getting 1-2 second lag spikes every so often even without many applications or programs running. I assume it is because of the RX480 I installed recently, because I didn't experience this before.

I don't think I am seeing it during gameplay, just normal operation on desktop.

Any advice?

Thanks!

 

[Dunlop0078]

Have you installed the drivers for the 480? I doubt the drivers for the HD 6450 or whatever you had before the 480 are the same.

 

[jecann]

I recently reinstall Windows on the solid state hard drive and the Radeon software for the graphics card was automatically showing so I did not do anything with it maybe I need to go in there and verify that the drivers are up-to-date do you do that through the device manager or through the Radeon app

 

[Dunlop0078]

You would do it through the amd crimson software. I would just make it simple and use this utility I linked below, this will detect your hardware and install the proper driver and the crimson software if you dont have it, if you do already have it it should say it was already installed and do nothing.

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/auto-detect-tool

 

[jecann]

Thanks a bunch!

 

[Dunlop0078]

No problem.

 

[jecann]

You would do it through the amd crimson software. I would just make it simple and use this utility I linked below, this will detect your hardware and install the proper driver and the crimson software if you dont have it, if you do already have it it should say it was already installed and do nothing.

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/auto-detect-tool

Dunlop0078,

I downloaded the crimson software and installed updates last night. This morning I opened the Radeon app again and it wanted me to download the same update I did last night (17.something, and optional update), so I did a "clean install" restarted a time or 2 and then the Radeon app in the quick launch is not there any more?

I am still getting a few lag spikes today. Do you know of anything else I can check?


Thanks!

 

[jecann]

Does anyone have any more ideas? I updated the drivers and I'm still seeing random lags for a second or two. Every once in awhile it bogs way down to severe lag for a minute, where I've had to shut down. This occurs not while playing games. I wouldn't expect the demand to be high, the graphics card fans are not running.

Thanks!