So I bought a second-hand PC less than a week ago. . . I know! Risky. But everything seemed fine and I don't think I was intentionally scammed. The first problem I noticed was when he dropped off the PC and some spare power cables for me to test it. Once he plugged it in the screen failed to turn on. He opened the PC and adjusted the RAM -- it worked fine after that.
Here are the specs:
GPU: Radeon RX 580 Series Primary/Discrete
VRAM: 8192 MB GDDR5 2000 MHz
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz 4 Cores
RAM: 16 GB 1600 MHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3
I ordered my own cables and they arrived two days later. I immediately had the same problem I noticed when he dropped it off. So I checked the ram, made sure it was plugged in, and booted up. No change. I tried switching RAM ports -- I noticed then that they were plugged into the first and fourth slots (is this bad?) -- to the first and third slots. After this the problem changed. Now my PC was going through a reboot loop. I felt upset, hoaxed, hopeless. But then I tried the second and fourth slots, and incredibly -- it worked! I set up my software, downloaded steam, and played a game. Here I noticed something wasn't quite right. My framerates were much lower than expected and quite a bit of choppiness (without FPS drops). 90fps average on CS:GO (medium settings). On my old system with a GTX 760 I usually got far higher FPS than that. I tried Fallout: New Vegas as well and FPS seemed lowish as well and without VSYNC it was extremely stuttery. Its not drastic. . . Like, I'm not dropping to 10 FPS or anything, but I know something isn't right! I tried monitoring my temperatures and usage but everything SEEMS fine. I thought maybe my usage was fairly low, but those aren't very intensive games. I'm not very sure how to properly observe those things, so any advice would be helpful!
In my last attempt before writing here I tried formatting the PC. It had been cleared before he brought it to me, so I thought maybe something went wrong on his side. But there doesn't seem to be any change. Clearly it must be a hardware problem, but I'm lost when it comes to figuring out what! I assume the low FPS is linked to the start-up issues, which I suppose is a problem with the RAM. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
Here are the specs:
GPU: Radeon RX 580 Series Primary/Discrete
VRAM: 8192 MB GDDR5 2000 MHz
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz 4 Cores
RAM: 16 GB 1600 MHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3
I ordered my own cables and they arrived two days later. I immediately had the same problem I noticed when he dropped it off. So I checked the ram, made sure it was plugged in, and booted up. No change. I tried switching RAM ports -- I noticed then that they were plugged into the first and fourth slots (is this bad?) -- to the first and third slots. After this the problem changed. Now my PC was going through a reboot loop. I felt upset, hoaxed, hopeless. But then I tried the second and fourth slots, and incredibly -- it worked! I set up my software, downloaded steam, and played a game. Here I noticed something wasn't quite right. My framerates were much lower than expected and quite a bit of choppiness (without FPS drops). 90fps average on CS:GO (medium settings). On my old system with a GTX 760 I usually got far higher FPS than that. I tried Fallout: New Vegas as well and FPS seemed lowish as well and without VSYNC it was extremely stuttery. Its not drastic. . . Like, I'm not dropping to 10 FPS or anything, but I know something isn't right! I tried monitoring my temperatures and usage but everything SEEMS fine. I thought maybe my usage was fairly low, but those aren't very intensive games. I'm not very sure how to properly observe those things, so any advice would be helpful!
In my last attempt before writing here I tried formatting the PC. It had been cleared before he brought it to me, so I thought maybe something went wrong on his side. But there doesn't seem to be any change. Clearly it must be a hardware problem, but I'm lost when it comes to figuring out what! I assume the low FPS is linked to the start-up issues, which I suppose is a problem with the RAM. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.