New PC Build Lagging Way More Than it Should

[f1r3bl4ze]

I built my own PC for the first time recently but it seems like I'm not getting the FPS I should be.

Build:
• Asus GTX 1060 6GB VRAM (GeForce 372.70 Driver)
• Intel i5 4690k @ 3.5ghz (Not using the stock cooler)
• Corsair Vengence RAM 16GB (8GBx2)
• Asus Z87-Expert Motherboard
• Windows 7 Professional

Examples:
• CS:GO | 45-55fps (lower during combat)
• Fortnite | 30-40fps (lower during combat)
• Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 | 40-50fps (lower during combat)

If anyone has any idea... please let me know!

 

[f1r3bl4ze]

Bump

 

[audiospecaccts]

did you disable the onboard video?
also, check your memory speed.

 

[bmockeg]

Hard drive? Fresh windows install?

 

[f1r3bl4ze]

• I have the graphics card plugged in and set up. Do I need to disable onboard video manually?
• Doing "wmic memorychip get speed" in commmand prompt gave me two 1600s.
• It's a 1TB hybrid, I don't have the exact name but I sort of doubt that's the issue.
• Not fresh, I was considering wiping but I want to make sure that it's a software issue before I go through with it.

 

[bmockeg]

If You changed the motherboard and are using an old,windows install done with a previous motherboard then thats your issue. Anytime You change a motherboard you should do a fresh windows install.

 

[audiospecaccts]

• I have the graphics card plugged in and set up. Do I need to disable onboard video manually?

Yes, and its usually located in the Bios screen...

 

[f1r3bl4ze]

Alright, I'll try disabling the onboard video, and if that doesn't work I'll try a fresh windows install. Cheers!

 

[f1r3bl4ze]

My motherboard automatically disables the onboard video once the graphics card is inserted, but I really don't want to have to reinstall windows. That doesn't seem like the right answer. If there's any other ideas, please let me know!

 

[bmockeg]

Lol, reinstalling windows is 100% the right answer

 

[f1r3bl4ze]

I feel like something is bottle-necking my PC somehow. Reinstalling windows seems extreme, is there a way to do it without deleting all of my stuff?

 

[bmockeg]

Listen, I've dealt with probably 10 people in the last 2 months with the same problems. Ask any moderator on this forum and they will tell you you should do a fresh install of Windows when you change your motherboard.

When windows 10 installs, it installs specific drivers for your components. Then, you install manufacturer drivers associated with a specific chipset and components. When you changed your motherboard, you installed new drivers but the old are still there, woven into windows. Now you have multiple drivers trying to work, sometimes the wrong ones. Performance is going to be horrible, especially FPS in games.

The solution is a fresh install of Windows and drivers. If you have stuff that you need to keep then I would back it up on a USB or external drive.

 

[audiospecaccts]

you don't have to "refresh" the os by reinstalling windows.

Edit: Also, windows should lock you out of the computer when you change motherboards. Usually wants you to put the windows disk in and run the repair routine in setup.

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to migrate windows 7 installed hard drive is very simple:

open a command prompt as an administrator
then run \system32\\sysprep\sysprep.exe
select "out of box expirience"
click the genealize box.
select shutdown

now the drivers have been unassigned so that the hard drive can be placed in a different machine. It runs the last steps of setup (with hardware detection) on the new machine.
Only the retail professional versions of Window10 I do believe only have this fuction/capability. All versions of windows 8 and below have sysprep.
Sysprep uninstalls the divers from the registry by default.

But I don't think he migrated the hard drive, rather the op has a new install/upgrade issue. If you think you need to refresh the drivers, do so by the sysprep OOBE method I described above.

 

[mclie19ney]

Lagging your build PC connecting to the drives with the most useful tricks method that needed.

 

[f1r3bl4ze]

Ok, it's been awhile. I updated my PC to windows 10 (to see if it would help and for some other reasons) but managed to keep my files and apps. This means my drivers were also kept aswell. I installed windows 10 graphics drivers and tried that. Didn't seem to help too much. Performance is slightly better, but not as good as it should be. I'm going to try the refresh thing that audiospecaccts suggested. I'll leave an update when I'm done. If anyone has any other ideas please let me know.

 

[audiospecaccts]

windows 10 will do it if it is the retail or retail professional. OEM versions are locked out of the oobe process.

But just to let you know too, windows 10 does have issues with some software out there. I have to roll back a machine for a guy because the specialized software he's running is showing up a lot of software errors under Windows10.

So things that are written back before windows 10 will most likely run better in windows 7. If I was a gamer, I would have a dual boot (win7 /win10) so that I would have an os that the program runs better.

my two cents...

 

[bmockeg]

Still watching and wondering why you don't want to fix the problem with the solution you've been given. Upgrading, refreshing etc is not going to fix your issue.