Question My gaming pc doesn't run well anymore, need help

[Enzo69]

Hello good folks. I need your help to pinpoint a major issue with my gaming rig. About two weeks ago it started to behave weirdly, stuttering on the desktop and in games even though everything was fine before - Prey, which I was playing at the time, ran smoothly up until the issue appeared. The framerate constantly drops by 10 fps and the audio crackles. Fans tend to roar when idling on the desktop. It used to be temporary, a few days ago it became pretty much permanent. It looked like a software interfering and draining ressources but Task manager doesn't indicate anything unusual, Malwarebytes didn't detect any malware and reinstalling windows last night (albeit while keeping my settings, but it shouldn't have mattered) didn't fix it. I've taken care of my system, it's not cluttered by shady stuff or else, not overclocked, in fact there's barely anything on it besides games, launchers and utility software like RivaTuner Statistics and OCCT. Drivers are up to date. Windows updates screwing up something ? Unlikely, right ? So if it's hardware in my opinion it could only be two things : my CPU or the ssd that hosts windows, both aging. Do you have ANY guess at to what to it is ? If I don't solve the problem, I'm gonna have to trash the PC, it has basically become unusable.

My specs : I7 8700, HD370 HD3 motherboard, Gigabyte RTX 3060ti gaming OC pro, 2 bars of 8 Corsair DDR4 3000mhz (runs with XMP active at 2666mhz, the max possible with this processus and mobo) ; case = ICUE 4000x RGB ; PSU = Fortron ATX 700W 80+ bronze ; drives = 1 sata SSD for the OS, 1intel nvme SSD for games and 1 HDD for storing my old data. Had it assembled by specialists. Every component is new, except the CPU, the motherboard and the OS SSD which are a few years old (and the HDD but that's irrelevant).

I hope this post doesn't bother you but I'd be VERY grateful for any help whatsoever. Cheers ! Take care.

 

[Lutfij]

How old is that PSU in your build? Can you state what version of Windows 10 you're on at the time of writing? What BIOS version are you working with for your motherboard? You should also check and see which driver version you're on for your GPU.

If you have BIOS versions pending for your motherboard, gradually work your way to the latest as opposed to jumping onto the latest BIOS version.

 

[Enzo69]

How old is that PSU in your build? Can you state what version of Windows 10 you're on at the time of writing? What BIOS version are you working with for your motherboard? You should also check and see which driver version you're on for your GPU.

If you have BIOS versions pending for your motherboard, gradually work your way to the latest as opposed to jumping onto the latest BIOS version.

The PSU is brand new, like two months old, I had it installed when I switched from my old gtx 1060 to an rtx 3060. It's the latest version of windows 10 family, last update was a few days ago. Bios version is F13, I never bothered with the newer versions because F14 and F15 sounded non essential to me and I know there's a risk of breaking it. I have the absolute latest GPU driver downloaded directly from nvidia, 465.89.