Idk really know how to word this and it might be kind of long, if this is a bad place to post this somebody please help redirect me, I haven't been able to get any help yet.
So basically, about 9 months ago I built my first gaming pc ever, and now when I run games, a lot sometimes run slightly laggy or have frame drops / freezing, but some games run great. (For example, For Honor has NEVER had a lag spike or low frames that I can notice in my many hours of playing.) Before I go more into details, here are the specs of the PC. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/39NVGq
Some reasons I think that I might have problems include when I built the pc I'm not sure I properly grounded myself, I had to lift up and replace the CPU after misplacing it, and then I transported my PC from one house to another probably a collective 8-10 times, every other week. I really want to figure out these problems but I have no way of telling if they are hardware problems that I caused myself and need to be replaced, or if a factory reset or some setting changes could make me able to play most games at a consistent frame rate. Also, every time I launch my PC is scans and repairs my C: Drive.
I am willing to give any other information or clips or graphs or anything to try and figure this out. Again, I'm sorry that this post was so long I just don't know what to do and really don't want to have to spend over a thousand dollars to just rebuild my pc. I greatly appreciate any and all help.
UDPATE: I enabled A-XMP and set RAM to run at DDR4-3000, and did some slight changes to SSD and HDD. This is the before and after.
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/36941309
I have yet to test a game yet but this looks better already
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So basically, about 9 months ago I built my first gaming pc ever, and now when I run games, a lot sometimes run slightly laggy or have frame drops / freezing, but some games run great. (For example, For Honor has NEVER had a lag spike or low frames that I can notice in my many hours of playing.) Before I go more into details, here are the specs of the PC. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/39NVGq
Some reasons I think that I might have problems include when I built the pc I'm not sure I properly grounded myself, I had to lift up and replace the CPU after misplacing it, and then I transported my PC from one house to another probably a collective 8-10 times, every other week. I really want to figure out these problems but I have no way of telling if they are hardware problems that I caused myself and need to be replaced, or if a factory reset or some setting changes could make me able to play most games at a consistent frame rate. Also, every time I launch my PC is scans and repairs my C: Drive.
I am willing to give any other information or clips or graphs or anything to try and figure this out. Again, I'm sorry that this post was so long I just don't know what to do and really don't want to have to spend over a thousand dollars to just rebuild my pc. I greatly appreciate any and all help.
UDPATE: I enabled A-XMP and set RAM to run at DDR4-3000, and did some slight changes to SSD and HDD. This is the before and after.
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/36941309
I have yet to test a game yet but this looks better already

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