Hello to you, first of all I wasn't sure wether I should post this thread in this section or in "PC gaming" since I seem to have an issue with my whole system. I apologize if this is the wrong place.
Roughly two weeks ago shortly after I had moved out an issue started to manifest itself out of the blue in my fairly new gaming rig, which is that it looks like it has trouble running optimally. The mouse cursor becomes weirdly sluggish on the desktop and there’s a constant stutter in games that ran perfectly fine before – the audio stutters as well. Initially it would go away after I let the machine sit idle for 10-15 minutes but yesterday it suddenly became much worse, I couldn’t get it out of my system. To me this looks like there’s a program in the background that is draining ressources, it happened before, however this time Task Manager doesn’t pick up anything, CPU sits at 3-5 % usage…
I’ve also noticed that when idling my fans tend to spin loudly here and there between quiet phases although I can’t remember if this was already the case before I encountered the issue so I dunno if it’s linked.
I never had this problem before with any of the PCs I’ve owned. Does anyone has a clue about what’s going on in my case ? A hidden software interfering ? A drive issue ? Anything ? Does it sound like hardware or software trouble to you ?
I’ve been careful not to browse shady websites or download risky stuff so as to avoid attracting malware. Both GPU drivers and Windows 10 are up to date. Components temperatures are normal as always. OCCT didn’t detect any mistake on CPU and GPU, although I’ve run it only in 5 minutes increments. I have a brand new nvme SSD for games but the sata SSD that hosts the OS is a few years old, maybe there lies the fault ?
I’d be extremely grateful for any tip. Cheers, stay safe.
Roughly two weeks ago shortly after I had moved out an issue started to manifest itself out of the blue in my fairly new gaming rig, which is that it looks like it has trouble running optimally. The mouse cursor becomes weirdly sluggish on the desktop and there’s a constant stutter in games that ran perfectly fine before – the audio stutters as well. Initially it would go away after I let the machine sit idle for 10-15 minutes but yesterday it suddenly became much worse, I couldn’t get it out of my system. To me this looks like there’s a program in the background that is draining ressources, it happened before, however this time Task Manager doesn’t pick up anything, CPU sits at 3-5 % usage…
I’ve also noticed that when idling my fans tend to spin loudly here and there between quiet phases although I can’t remember if this was already the case before I encountered the issue so I dunno if it’s linked.
I never had this problem before with any of the PCs I’ve owned. Does anyone has a clue about what’s going on in my case ? A hidden software interfering ? A drive issue ? Anything ? Does it sound like hardware or software trouble to you ?
I’ve been careful not to browse shady websites or download risky stuff so as to avoid attracting malware. Both GPU drivers and Windows 10 are up to date. Components temperatures are normal as always. OCCT didn’t detect any mistake on CPU and GPU, although I’ve run it only in 5 minutes increments. I have a brand new nvme SSD for games but the sata SSD that hosts the OS is a few years old, maybe there lies the fault ?
I’d be extremely grateful for any tip. Cheers, stay safe.
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