Random performance drop (low fps, games and video) until restart.

[Lylat97]

Hello,

I've recently noticed that my system will sometimes seem to run somewhat slower than normal, and only a restart will *usually* fix it. I can safely remove the GPU and RAM as potential causes (I've been swapped between two different cards recently, and also two different RAM kits.)

My OS has also recently been installed fresh, so unless it could be some unlikely software problem, I would assume it must caused by hardware somehow. I haven't installed any new program that I haven't already been using long before this problem began.

So, what should I be looking at by this point? Would a motherboard do this? PSU? CPU?
Temps are fine, and unchanged. I notice no difference in memory usage or disk activity. No virus or malware infections, either.

Here are my system specs:

My system specs:

OS: Windows 7 Home Premium, 64 bit.
CPU: Intel i7 6700k (4.5ghz OC @ 1.26 vcore)
Motherboard: Asus Z170-A, bios ver. 2202
Power Supply: EVGA Supernova G2 750W
SSD: Samsung 850 EVO, 500GB
RAM: G.SKILL 16GB (2 x 8GB) Ripjaws V Series DDR4 PC4-19200 2400MHz
GPU: EVGA GTX1070 FTW acx 3.0 (Also seems to occur on MSI GTX 970)

Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

[badboyrog2]

did you removed the old gpu driver before you change the gpu card?
did you check in the bios if everything is well detected and all settings good?
did you reset the bios?

 

[Lylat97]

did you removed the old gpu driver before you change the gpu card?
did you check in the bios if everything is well detected and all settings good?
did you reset the bios?

Yup, all of the above. Always use DDU, Bios looks normal (I even updated it, which didn't make any difference) and of course tried resetting everything in case I changed something that I shouldn't have.

 

[hdmark]

I know this sounds stupid (im not insulting you at all!), but are there any virus scans or backups running?

I'm embarassed to admit that i had that problem a week ago. I boot up, start playing my game, and it would lag. I checked my desktop, checked process manager, nothing looked off. I would restart and it would go back to normal. Finally i realized avira was running a scan in the background :/

 

[Lylat97]

I know this sounds stupid (im not insulting you at all!), but are there any virus scans or backups running?

I'm embarassed to admit that i had that problem a week ago. I boot up, start playing my game, and it would lag. I checked my desktop, checked process manager, nothing looked off. I would restart and it would go back to normal. Finally i realized avira was running a scan in the background :/

I don't believe I have any automated or background scans enabled. (Avast) At least, I've never seen anything like that with this particular AV.

Thank you for the suggestion, though!

 

[badboyrog2]

do you have google chrome installed?

 

[Lylat97]

do you have google chrome installed?

I do!

 

[badboyrog2]

it should be the culpit ...get firefox instead
i know chrome is fun to use but it always a bad side of everything

 

[bloodroses]

I'm running both Chrome and Firefox and haven't experienced those issues at all. Unless he has a really nasty extension installed, Chrome more than likely isn't the culprit.