About a week ago, I tried upgrading my i3-6100 Skylake CPU with an i5-6500 of the same generation. I was unsuccessful. When I tried booting the system, nothing would happen. I made sure the CPU was seated properly and everything. Well, I got frustrated and said forget this, I'm sending it back. Well, I put my i3 back in the computer and ever since then. I have been having a lot of trouble. My pc would lock up and stutter. I remembered that I didn't reapply thermal paste, so I turned off the machine for a few days until I got the paste. I cleaned off the CPU and the Heatsink (Stock) and reset my PC. Fast forward a few days and though my PC is no longer locking up. I believe something has happened to my video card (EVGA GTX 950). I am only getting 20 fps in games like World of Warcraft on the lowest setting, where before I was getting 50-60+ on Ultra settings. Video playback seems to have a ripple effect and seems to lag. Dragging windows from one monitor to another causes screen lag and scrolling through browsers causes lag as well. It's driving me mad! I have tried a lot of different things including:
I am wit's end.
PC Specs:
Any help, thoughts, and prayers would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Thomas
Dusting out PC thoroughly with compressed air and a microfiber cloth
Reseating components such as CPU, Video Card, Memory
Completely uninstalling and reinstalling Video Card drivers. (Even uninstalled from Device Manager)
Refreshed Windows.
Prayed to any and all Gods (Even Kratos)
I am wit's end.
PC Specs:
PC was built (by me) 2 years ago.
i3-6100 Skylake CPU
16GB PNY Vengeance RAM
EVGA nVidia GTX 950 (Super Clock)
1 TB WD HDD at 7200rpm.
Any help, thoughts, and prayers would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Thomas